10th November 2006, 06:51 PM
I would agree with vioce of reason that if a fixed price sum is being asked for giving a range is not helpful. Some developers want to transfer all the risk and hence want the price fixing. That is there perogative.
On these occassions when I have asked for quotes I often get back costings and budgets not quotes. This makes like with like cost comparisons difficult and in some respects it is easier to bin the submissions which have not conformed to what has been asked for.
As for the statement
"as the cash sum margins are so small down there, why shouldn't the contractor actually care about their business interests and try to minmise the possibility of loss especially if a small company"
I dont understand this - the point I was making that producing quotes for a say 1DW1PD+M evaluation (one day wonder one person for a day) is so easy it should take seconds.
It is the same for a small or large firm.
We do have the ICE conditions of contract for archaeology.
Peter
On these occassions when I have asked for quotes I often get back costings and budgets not quotes. This makes like with like cost comparisons difficult and in some respects it is easier to bin the submissions which have not conformed to what has been asked for.
As for the statement
"as the cash sum margins are so small down there, why shouldn't the contractor actually care about their business interests and try to minmise the possibility of loss especially if a small company"
I dont understand this - the point I was making that producing quotes for a say 1DW1PD+M evaluation (one day wonder one person for a day) is so easy it should take seconds.
It is the same for a small or large firm.
We do have the ICE conditions of contract for archaeology.
Peter