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<blockquote data-quote="Brad Weber" data-source="post: 64629" data-attributes="member: 114"><p>Re: Wacky things on bid spec's</p><p></p><p>Apart from editing mistakes, obvious attempts to bias a bid, etc. probably the 'wackiest' was a complete bid specification that we were asked to bid on but that turned out to include a paragraph identifying the Consultant that created the Specification as being the only approved Contractor. Why invest the time to create a complete spec if the person creating it is the only one allowed to bid on it? So you can rip off the Owner twice? To add insult to injury, the Consultant had solicited our help on the design at no cost with the suggestion of our then having an advantage when it was bid.</p><p></p><p>Another was a Consultant the routinely wrote in their specifications that the Contractor had to pay for their Construction Administration services. They would get consulting work by underbidding all of their competition that included the CA services in their bids and then later charge whatever they wanted for those services, it just wouldn't appear to be part of their cost. They also worded it so that they were not working for the Contractor but rather just the Contractors bidding having to hide part of the Consultant's fees in their bids. It was a completely unethical approach and they got caught on one of our projects when they made a mistake that resulted in their having to make an additional site visit and then tried to make us pay them extra for it, when we went to the Owner, which was a State university that had awarded them the work based on a competitive bid process, with a related Change Order request and they realized what it was for and what had happened they were not amused.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brad Weber, post: 64629, member: 114"] Re: Wacky things on bid spec's Apart from editing mistakes, obvious attempts to bias a bid, etc. probably the 'wackiest' was a complete bid specification that we were asked to bid on but that turned out to include a paragraph identifying the Consultant that created the Specification as being the only approved Contractor. Why invest the time to create a complete spec if the person creating it is the only one allowed to bid on it? So you can rip off the Owner twice? To add insult to injury, the Consultant had solicited our help on the design at no cost with the suggestion of our then having an advantage when it was bid. Another was a Consultant the routinely wrote in their specifications that the Contractor had to pay for their Construction Administration services. They would get consulting work by underbidding all of their competition that included the CA services in their bids and then later charge whatever they wanted for those services, it just wouldn't appear to be part of their cost. They also worded it so that they were not working for the Contractor but rather just the Contractors bidding having to hide part of the Consultant's fees in their bids. It was a completely unethical approach and they got caught on one of our projects when they made a mistake that resulted in their having to make an additional site visit and then tried to make us pay them extra for it, when we went to the Owner, which was a State university that had awarded them the work based on a competitive bid process, with a related Change Order request and they realized what it was for and what had happened they were not amused. [/QUOTE]
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