No worries....
Having worked for "government" before.....
Many that ask for bids wouldn't know the difference
between a professional service, and a janitorial services bid...
They need "educating" as much as the private clients do.....
I still label those documents as an "estimate" somewhere in the
verbiage, just to get them thinking along those lines.
Work is work.... pride can be a great way to lose weight.
Just saying that we need to stay on top of "educating" our
potential client base.
Cheers!
> I'm not going to let pride get in the way of performing surveys and making money. The government wants a bid, so they're going to get one.
Even more interesting. This was a governmental agency that requested the 'bid' for professional land surveying services. I cringe at that sentence in more ways than I can describe. Does your state have Quality Based Selections requirements for procuring professional services?
I understand you gotta eat, but when we constantly let others dictate how we, as professional land surveyors, procure work in a manner similar to procuring janitorial services I wonder what we're really doing.
> > I'm not going to let pride get in the way of performing surveys and making money. The government wants a bid, so they're going to get one.
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> Even more interesting. This was a governmental agency that requested the 'bid' for professional land surveying services. I cringe at that sentence in more ways than I can describe. Does your state have Quality Based Selections requirements for procuring professional services?
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> I understand you gotta eat, but when we constantly let others dictate how we, as professional land surveyors, procure work in a manner similar to procuring janitorial services I wonder what we're really doing.
No QBS requirement in Tennessee.
If you hate bidding work so much, perhaps you should change professions.