Shawn Billings, post: 425668, member: 6521 wrote: I never went to business school so maybe I'm wrong, but I would think if we were very smart that the...

I have worked on hundreds of Fixed-Fee projects over the years ranging from as little as 5k to 1.5 million and never once has price been the deciding ...

Just use Mleader which can be found in the annotate tab>Leaders>multileader. You can move your text associated with the leader anywhere and the...

paden cash, post: 424148, member: 20 wrote: Exactly. A well put together proposal should have something in the neighborhood of 10 to 15% profit anywa...

Steve Gilbert, post: 423951, member: 111 wrote: Is Alabama the only state with a BOR that strictly forbids surveyors (and engineers) from competing fo...

paden cash, post: 423904, member: 20 wrote: Ask them what part of the survey they would like you to eliminate to lower the fees. Them wanting to pay ...

Hack, post: 421287, member: 708 wrote: I've run into this a few times now and would like the opinions of others.About a year ago we prepared Elevation...

While we havent set aerial targets in a very long time. If those are also main control points I would generally do as you described. Depending on th...

While I sometimes get annoyed at the survey figures i find that 95% of the time I never have to touch them. I import the csv file which creates the f...

I've worked in several municipalities that require your land to be 'platted' prior to a building permit being issued.

Lugeyser, post: 417935, member: 1249 wrote: You guys kill me with your belly aching about proposals versus bids.You act like the public and your poten...

Stop providing 'bids' would be a good start. That just makes us sound like we're trying to be the cheapest and we want you to hire us becasue we are ...

mattsib79, post: 417654, member: 1138 wrote: The problem with just digging up corners are if the ones you dig are not correct (either not their corner...

StLSurveyor, post: 417580, member: 7070 wrote: This too, why bother...When you tell the client we can wait for the snow to melt and get the work done ...

Bear Bait, post: 417509, member: 4459 wrote: Here in my market you low bid most every project if you want to do any work. Especially public money - st...

In almost all of my topographic survey estimates I provide the necessary specifics to the Party chief that will be overseeing the field work and let h...

We occasionally get calls for Alta Surveys and they generally start with " I need a bid for an Alta, do you do that?" "yes we do, but we do not provi...

James Fleming, post: 416312, member: 136 wrote: Client: We looked at your man-hour estimates and you have more than six weeks of field crew time for t...