Since last I wrote this piece, we have gone through yet another bidding process, and of course it is lower, but that certainly doesn't take into consideration change orders! Almost from the very first, this became a reality when they started to do the excavation work and found the area they were going to build on was filled with old tires buried beneath the ground surface! Part of this property had once been a race track, so was it any surprise that tires might have been buried there? We will never know, but we do know that instantly a change order was written to add even more to the bid! By the time the plant is finished I fully expect the cost will be no lower than the original bid and the only thing they gained was a completion date even later than it originally was expected.
Since last I wrote this piece, we have gone through yet another bidding process, and of course it is lower, but that certainly doesn't take into consideration change orders! Almost from the very first, this became a reality when they started to do the excavation work and found the area they were going to build on was filled with old tires buried beneath the ground surface! Part of this property had once been a race track, so was it any surprise that tires might have been buried there? We will never know, but we do know that instantly a change order was written to add even more to the bid! By the time the plant is finished I fully expect the cost will be no lower than the original bid and the only thing they gained was a completion date even later than it originally was expected.
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