Lowest Bidder
Oct. 15th, 2012 07:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqThe city went with (in their words) "the lowest bidder" for our new garbage and recycling collection. People who were supposed to have their garbage collected last Wednesday are still waiting to have it picked up, and now they are complaining about the lousy service.
We went with the company who promised to do the work for the least amount of money, and now we wonder why the service is not the greatest. It's possible that it is because they are using cheap equipment, with the fewest, lowest paid staff they can manage to get away with in order to come in with a really low bid but remain profitable.
We went with the company who promised to do the work for the least amount of money, and now we wonder why the service is not the greatest. It's possible that it is because they are using cheap equipment, with the fewest, lowest paid staff they can manage to get away with in order to come in with a really low bid but remain profitable.
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Date: 2012-10-15 01:22 pm (UTC)When I started working there we were "a year away" from a completely new PC based database to handle our infrastructure, replacing a mainframe that has been operating since the mid 80's. This was being developed by one of these lowest bidder companies. It's now over five years later and we're being told it will be ready in three months.
I am told we've never not ended a bid contract without suing the other company, because they never meet the demands of the contract for the price they claimed.