12th May 2012, 11:00 AM
Jack Wrote:Costing and tendering for work up here seems to be a black art of delusion and misdirection.
We seem to do a lot of preliminary works, but have the actual excavation work stolen by a certain company that miraculously can do the job cheaper (somehow).
Guess they must be using students as slave labour, not paying the going rate, not paying for travel time etc, or must be begging more money out of the client later, or they are just not recording all the archaeology.
It's not a major issue, just an annoyance and a bit of a mystery to me how their tenders always seem lower than ours........:face-huh:
Nowt new there......has always been the case around here.........