ATTENTION OWNERS Look Beyond Low-Bid For the past two years, I have been preaching to contractors the wisdom of looking beyond low-bid. I have been frustrated to receive less than enthusiastic responses from a greater majority of contractors. Their reaction to my...
COMMON SENSE by Brian Lines, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Construction industry research usually begins with an everyday practical problem brought to a university faculty by construction industry professionals. Unfortunately, the resulting...
SUBJECT: THE HISTORY OF LOW BID “The Bidder Who Makes the Most Mistakes… Gets the Job” If this weren’t true, it wouldn’t be funny. Irony is humor because the underlying truth shouldn’t be so, but it is. Our industry has been enjoying this old joke ever since the...
