Bids and Contracts

Must have bid a half dozen larger projects this year.  Seems like each project is ideal but I suppose you can't survey everything... Bidding these projects is not an exact science anyway.  Every project hangs in the balance of  finding relevant control and established boundary corners.  It's hard to estimate that balance.  But each bid has been accompanied by a written contract for services.  Identifying a specific scope of service along with an expected schedule helps clients understand the process to completing survey work.  It also specifies the schedule of payments, some with a retainer or deposit, some a flat rate, some an hourly invoice, billed monthly.  One even had a daily rate for a set of specific tasks each day.

Better to be bidding projects than not.  I love to see new and different kinds of surveying projects come across my desk.  I've been doing this long enough to appreciate the variety.

more later