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Hahaha! We beat any price by 20%!

Well, ran some numbers over the past week and tried to cut back where I could to get this contract. Turns out I came in 20% low!!!!! I guess someone will be venting about me tonight! Hahaha! We should still be able to pull off the work with ok profits, plus I keep all my staff. Hopefully...

Now this contract has also come up again. Pretty much the same numbers as above. Here is the catch: they no longer demand you have certified climbers on your crew, only workers with a certain amount of experience (15 000hrs for crew lead, 4000 hrs for second climber). So now I know the guy...

Wow already a year, time flies!!!! Update: I actually got this contract this year. Two close bids (me at 52k and another at 55) and the guy that cut the price in half last year (around 70k). I did lower my prices a bit, which made me get the work. We also got a whole bunch of private work...

Well, just found out the other guy didn't have qualified staff and the city rejected his bid. This should help me pay that new truck :thumbup:

So we were only two bidders on this contract, for some reason. Last year, I think they were 6. I came in at 238k an the other 194k. We talked a little after, he said I was expensive, I said he was cheap! He the told me he just got refused a contract because he didn't have any certified...

These are rough numbers, could be more, could be less, I guess they just need numbers to allocate the contract. I like that they aren't requiring a huge consignment for the job: 3500$. I saw a job in Mtl to treat EAB with TreeAzin, they asked 50% on a 400k job!!! That's my mortgage!!! Also, I...

OK, so I have a bit of time, here is what I'm bidding on: Removal: 20-39 cm DBH X 5 40-59 cm DBH X 5 60-99 cm DBH X 5 Stumps: 20-39 cm X 10 40-59 cm X 15 60-99 cm X 10 Pruning (systematic street trees, so crown lift + structure clearing + major deadwood) 20-46 cm DBH X 300 46+ cm DBH X 200...

A muni job came out last year at 740k, I can't imagije biding that yet !

Ya, that's the scary part....

Ha, I hope you're wrong man !

Ok gents, putting in a bid for a big muni contract tomorrow, I was going to put my prices on here, but I think I'll wait. I highly doubt a competitor will find it, but ya never know!!! City is expecting to spend between 250k and 400k, I will be on the lower end of that, but still feel I can...

I see them around, they usualy have older equipment that's paid for, so they figure they can charge less. One of my competitors, which is also a friend that has been in business 20+ years, told me that guys like that charge less but never can put money aside to anticipate having to replace...

Ya I wasn't looking forward to cutting those trees in -20 weather without a bucket, so I did put a little more than usual, but still I would never work for that cheap... What I find funny is guys that charge dirt cheap in the spring and early summer and book themselves silly. Then in the fall...

Jim, maybe they expect that driving around town will give them advertisement, but still.

True Butch, but I just don't get how this guy is doing it. Something has to wrong, it baffles me. I'm not trying to be a millionnaire either, just make a little dough.

Pretty close to the numbers that came out on this particular contract Cory. I guess I'll go broke next to the pool in Mexico...haha!

So, I got to get this out... Large muni contract came out yesterday: 62 ash trees to take down, different sizes, a couple difficult ones with live wires, some stumps with soil replacement and grass, all the trees are completly dead from EAB, haul everything away. I came in second, but the guy...