Bids

1 Pages 177 Words

While the practice of bid shopping is not illegal, it has the potential to produce many problems for any given construction project. Bid shopping promotes a lower standard of overall quality due to insufficient manpower, equipment/material substitutions, and other cost cutting short cuts. Bid shopping also makes it difficult to locate the party responsible for shotty system performance, which in turn hampers the problem solving process. This will affect the project deadline, and the execution of warranty work. Jobsite safety will undoubtedly take a hit, due to insufficiently sized crews being pushed to complete a task on schedule. Recent study have also shown that the bid shopping method produces higher original bid cost; from contractors and subcontractors giving themselves a cushion; the separate bid method tends to achieve the best quality for the lowest cost. However, in my opinion, the biggest downfall in the bid shopping method is the unrealistic chance of a minority/female subcontractor being awarded the contract. These businesses are generally less established and are obviously more vulnerable to being underbid early in the game....