When someone else gets the work..

[Khriss]

Joking asside- that is atrocious work. I would  bite bullet n put them to pollards. K ( include Habitat boxes as standard) 

[dig-dug-dan]

I am chairman of my local parish council, and I don't even get the work!

But, ask to see the tenders submitted, who they were and the prices. They cannot refuse as it's in the public domain. Then you can see if they checked the qualifications!

[eggsarascal]

16 minutes ago, dig-dug-dan said:

I am chairman of my local parish council, and I don't even get the work!

But, ask to see the tenders submitted, who they were and the prices. They cannot refuse as it's in the public domain. Then you can see if they checked the qualifications!

This is my experience, one family have dominated the local PC for years until a few outsiders moved in 20+ years ago, neither them or the newcomers get the work. Most cases in life it's who you know, not what you know, don't work like that with PC's around this way.

[adrian007]

No point taking time out to quote if you are just making up the 3 quotes they need for audit purposes.

Sad thing is, you sound like you are really putting thought and expertise into the quote.

[Dan Maynard]

My PC story, I quoted a load of work in my village after they paid for a parish tree survey.

Two years on, the only piece of work on the quote to get done by anybody is one of the trees that was actually on private land - the owner has since paid me to fell it as it died.

[gand]

Just had one in the village. A good few Lombardi to take down. Didn't even ask the local firm( lives in the village 200 yards from the job) I worked with him till recently, and have done numerous work for the PC. After us they had someone else who's done all the work for the past 4 years and he didn't get it. He obviously wasn't versed with crane work.

[Gary Prentice]

1 hour ago, adrian007 said:

No point taking time out to quote if you are just making up the 3 quotes they need for audit purposes.

 

A fellow contractor I used to know was regularly being asked to quote for a particular company, only to be just undercut by another firm. Realising that the competition wasn't even bothering to visit sites to tender, he finally submitted a price for a few hundred quid on a £2-3K job. 

 

He never got asked to tender for another job

[Mick Dempsey]

I quoted for some neighbouring commune work (similar to a parish) over here, priced it nice and high, they sent me a polite letter telling me I didn’t get the work, who won it and how much they charged, which seems fair.

Edited January 7, 2020 by Mick Dempsey

[Stubby]

15 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I quoted for some neighbouring commune work (similar to a parish) over here, priced it nice and high, they sent me a polite letter telling me I didn’t get the work, who won it and how much they charged, which seems fair.

Was it old Toms nephew by any chance ?  

Edited January 7, 2020 by Stubby

[Mick Dempsey]

No, some firm of younger hungrier guys who reckoned they could do it in two days judging by the price, I put three days on it, thinking I could maybe do it in two and be quids in.

 

I gambled and lost.