A company I've worked with before sent out a request for bid. It is a building for a manufacturing company.
The type of work I'm more interested in, instead of some government building.
Reading through the bid package which seemed very over the top for something like this, basically a building layout, parking, lights, sidewalks and sewer.
The plans are 30 pages the spec book and bid package is almost 500.
First thing I see is I have to include my State Certificate of Residency........What?
From there it went downhill,,,,,,medical history, bank accounts,,,,,,,,,for a private building staking?
Seems the company got some government funds attached and alllllll the junk that comes with that.
Prevailing wages, reading down a long list of state statutes, and eventually a threat of criminal penalties and prosecution, which is repeated over and over as I?ÿscroll down for varies offences like not filling out the paperwork?ÿperfectly.
No doubt a form legaleze document, but still........
The bidding documents ended about page 115, then the specs started to fill out the rest of it,,,,,,I suppose, think I'll give this one a pass, a few years ago this would be about a 10k job, in and out. They have made these things painful, 2 hrs a week you HAVE to be on site for the Monday meeting, that's 10k right there. Heck if I miss one I might get prosecuted.
Some of our clients (small towns and counties) stopped applying for Federal money for projects due to the strings attached.?ÿ For a street intersection improvement that would take a few months to survey, design, obtain easements/rights of way, bid and construct you could plan on at least a year and several thousand dollars to handle all the paper work.?ÿ It just plain wasn't worth it.
Andy
Some of our clients (small towns and counties) stopped applying for Federal money for projects due to the strings attached.?ÿ For a street intersection improvement that would take a few months to survey, design, obtain easements/rights of way, bid and construct you could plan on at least a year and several thousand dollars to handle all the paper work.?ÿ It just plain wasn't worth it.
Andy
And as I understand this, it's not even federal money..........
I know I'd never get this, cause I would add in at least the 10% holdback for starters.
They actually wanted work history going back a few years including telling them the "biggest" job during that time.
Sounds like when I looked at federal surveying jobs.?ÿ The amount of information they wanted was so obnoxious it would have taken a full day just to apply.