Contract Record and Engineering Review, 1916, Vol. 30 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Contract Record and Engineering Review, 1916, Vol. 30

Again, the careful bidder who honestly tries to get in all the items, and figures to do the work as called for, is fre~ quently beaten by a less competent bidder, who forgets some thing, or who, maybe, is willing to take a chance anyway, in order to get the job. True, omissions in lists of materials are sometimes unavoidable, under existing methods, which unfortunately aim at speed rather than accuracy.

It is, to say the least, disappointing to a careful bidder on a large job to find his bid just above the lowest, and after the low man has signed up the contract; it develops that the painting, or some such item, was left out. This, how ever, could not occur with the Quantity System.

This is no overdrawn picture, as I know from personal experience. The competent bidder who gets in all his items to-day is usually under a disadvantage, unless he happens to be figuring against men of his own stamp. Meanwhile, it would appear that the chances are in favor of the owner, most of the time, and it seems to be a case of heads I win, tails you lose. Surely it is time there was a change.

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