Bidding out.

[Bunton Guy]

Curious as to how some of these large or semi large companies hear about jobs going up for bid. This perticular time there was a entrance of a neighborhood taken care of by the Home Owner Association. A new president was voted in and he wanted a new landscape maintenance company in there....so he bid it out to 3 companies....none of them arent in the yellow pages. How do these companies hear about these commercial accounts going up for bid ? :cry:

[heygrassman]

ck ur mail

[Dix]

I would like to know the answer to that one as well!

Dix

[joshua]

most of the time to my understanding and personal experience the person in charge of that knows the people so how, family is the biggest , but there are other ways.

[J&JPROPERTY]

Heygrassman, I would like to know the answer to that one myself, if you don't mind of course.


Thanks Joe

[Mykster]

My sister works for a builder. She told me that they had a list of all the subs. they use. In this case of LCO's, she said they pick the top 5 that they liked or used the most and have them submit bids to them for the project and go from there. I asked to her to put me on the list..........shot down from my own sister.

[GarPA]

Mykster....your sister must love you....she's trying to protect you from working for a builder. I've only had 2 experiences working for builders....neither was good. They look down thei noses at the type of work we do compared to their 'skills'so they want it done for nothing....and they don't pay promptly. I won't do work for another one.

[parkwest]

I agree with kitzy. If you don't know how to read spec's, blueprints, workorders, have all your insurance, or understand whats involved in working with other subs in a structured environment you will be better off working for homeowners.

[Bunton Guy]

Heygrassman IF I become a member of that site do you think they would provide me with the info I am looking for ? As far as what I have seen its mostly construction and renovation project for my location. Just curious as to if I sign up that they would provide a better selection including lawn and landscape maintenance.

[strickdad]

as a general rule we pole all the commerical work "we" would like to bid on. meaning we find out when the contract comes open for bid, we also try to get an itenary from the client to find out what they need and when.most (around here) large contracts (over 50,000 yearly) are on a 2 to 3 year time table so we can get a good feel for what all is involved well before we bid on them.........

[Bunton Guy]

Well strictdad are you speaking of maintenance contracts or landscape installs ? also did you call around to contractors to get on bid list ?? Do you deal with contractors for maintenance ? I thought only for ladscape installs.

[Holloway Lawns]

In my neck of the woods I have seen ad's placed in the classifieds in the news paper. The city, and the school system do it all the time. I have seen an ad taking lawn work bids from a nursing home one time. I did bid but did not get it. There was a contractor who installed lots of trees along the way to the airport and he was taking bids for an LCO to trim around them weekly. I bid did get it but then decided not to take it on this was in 95 and I was way to busy to do this one. I should not even bid on it.

[strickdad]

Originally posted by Bunton Guy
Well strictdad are you speaking of maintenance contracts or landscape installs ? also did you call around to contractors to get on bid list ?? Do you deal with contractors for maintenance ? I thought only for ladscape installs. you opened the thread, speaking about a (hoa) "maintence" contract right? thats what i replied to, "how do you find out about maintence contracts.. we deal directly with property managers or owners. we do not go through any "general" contractor etc. as i said before we find propertys that we are well suited for,(another words propertys that we think we will profit from) and we contact them. we find out there needs, we get a schedule of maintence and we find out the dates the contract comes open.. as i said before some contracts around here are only a year.. but the bigger ones (over 50,000 yearly) are 2 and 3 years long. so you may have to wait a year or 2... sorry if i didnt make myself clear the first time..

[Bunton Guy]

Thanx for the info strick...no problems its my fault for not using my head.