Tag: bid
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Avoid Takeoff Mistakes That Cut Into Your Bid Margins
You wrap a quantity takeoff for a new school build. Big project. Tight timeline. Everything looks solid. Then construction starts and the concrete runs short. After a painful audit, the oversight pops up fast: the slab thickness was miscalculated in the takeoff. One tiny oversight snowballs into blown deadlines, rising costs, and a tense client…
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Why preconstruction should start before the bid
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Andy Cushman is director of business development and proposals at Philadelphia-based engineering and construction services firm Urban Engineers. Opinions are the author’s own. The construction industry continues to face myriad uncertainties, including tariffs, fluctuations in material costs,…
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Why new Crooked House law won’t apply to listed WWI hangar that burned down during planning bid
A blaze that tore through a Grade II-listed First World War aircraft hangar at Old Sarum airfield – just days after a controversial housing development was greenlit – has reignited concerns over the fragility of Britain’s heritage protection laws. Hangar 3, a WW1 airstrip and base, had been central to a recent planning permission application,…
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California’s Gold Line rejects Kiewit’s final bid
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A $798 million, 3.2-mile Southern California light-rail project is going back to the drawing board after a lone bid from Omaha, Nebraska-based Kiewit came in “hundreds of millions of dollars” higher than expected. The Foothill…
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DOL’s independent contractor rule evades trucking company’s injunction bid
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A federal judge dismissed Thursday a New Mexico trucking company’s motion to preliminarily enjoin the U.S. Department of Labor’s 2024 independent contractor final rule, delivering a regulatory victory to the Biden administration in its final…
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Bid to Win in Professional Services
Answering requests for proposals (RFP) or requests for quotations (RFQ) is a recurring activity for many professional services providers. Many clients seem to think that buying professional services is no different than buying office supplies. Public sector organizations have to put projects out to tender, and large companies have procurement departments that try to get…