Recently chatted with an engineer. They had wanted us to partner on a job that required a mountain of legal work. We had done a district court filing about 10 years prior and this would be an extension of that job.?ÿ
When I finished putting together a realistic bid it was sliding over 1/2 way to 6 figures. The engineer added their portion to the bid and sent it to the client. They were not happy with the price, seems the construction phase would be paid for using public money (the reason for the prior district court filing was to have access to public money), but not the permitting side (my billing).?ÿ
Anyway they went to a different firm for the permitting and I basically breathed a sigh of relief because I didn't know how far the regulators would take the permitting process which could explode into a massive redo of the entire system. And those regulators wouldn't sit down and review it before hand.?ÿ
I think we could have done it cheaper than anyone (if there was cooperation with the reviewers) since we already had the files and mapping, but if someone could do it for less have at it.?ÿ
Wellll,,,,, a few years later and I hear that the job was bid higher than my estimate and the company went way over. I'm not surprised.
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I never lost a penny on a job I didn't get.
Experience is a great thing.?ÿ It helps you figure out which jobs to take and which ones to let go.
