Pricing and Bidding Handbook

This work is part of a series designed to suit the specific needs of small building and public works contractors, and the problems that arise from bidding for and carrying out varied and dispersed projects in a context of highly cyclical demand.; This handbook covers pricing and bidding to obtain new projects. Too many contractors produce ""guesstimates""--Not estimates - of project costs, so they either bid too high and lose the contract, or - often even worse - get the work at a price which is below cost. Besides taking the reader step-by-step through the preparation of the bid on a small b.