Better late than never

It has been 3 weeks since I have found time to get a blog together. OOOPS! The bid schedule I have been set up with this past couple weeks has yet again pushed me to my limits. Where to start with what I have learned.....

This past week I have been involved in a couple extremely large bids going out that could potentially keep us busy for the rest of the year. One project I had been working on was one I believe I talked about before. A 108 footbridge in Chelan, WA. This was a very different project than I have ever bid and took all of my focus. Not only was the fabrication going to be a maze but shipping this thing to the remote village of Holden was quite the act getting numbers lined up. We had even debated a helicopter to transport and install! We ended up going with a trucking service and cranes instead as the prices were just ridiculous to have these things flown. I have also bid a project in Seattle which is already adding up to be the biggest project we have ever done and I am only about halfway done with this one. With the bid going out this Wednesday I find myself up against it once again. If I had to focus on one thing this last couple weeks that I have learned it is the very necessary "skill" of being to say no. Now this may sound a little bit different than the other things I have learned, and it is, but I have found that it is not only something that is hard to do but can actually be a skill that needs to be practiced. There is a reality on some jobs you go after that may be too much depending on circumstances, man power, time, etc. People may want you to bid jobs and really push to get them in but if you can sit back and input all factors and decide that it will be too much than spending the many days it takes to bid it could end up being a waste of time. That being said I don't believe anything I have went after this last couple weeks has been a waste of time as I am extremely confident in my numbers but I can see how if things were just a little different they could have been.

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