27th September 2012, 01:46 PM
Jack Wrote:............saw first hand a tender from us that we couldn't get any lower (bearing in mind the need for a site cabin, travel expenses etc.) stolen by a certain local unit that was in partnership with the client (a district council) in doing a yearly 'community' research dig/ university training dig in the same area. Guess you can do a commercial dig really cheap if students pay you to do the work!
This is all supposition though as when we queried why we didn't get the job the answer was (as always) our tender was too high...........!
within the nppf developers are encouraged to engage with local communities and provide added benefit so not all will go with the lowest tender - and project managers always have a list of excuses as to why they did not win a particular contract - its in their contract
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers