Michelle Lowe on fri 28 apr 00
Hi everyone,
I have the opportunity to bid on a project that involves a small tile
restoration job and a large cleaning job on a fifteen year old tile piece
in a park here in the Phoenix area. It's high fire tile so has taken the
weather wear fairly well, but I have no clue what hourly wage is
appropriate for something like this.
It has to be two proposals, one for the tile restoration (small job), and
one for cleaning and maintenance (big job).
http://www.tempe.gov/commserv/Cultural%20Services/publicart_temple.htm
Anyone out there able to help me? I appreciated all the responses to my
pitfire question :-)
Mishy, just done firing a cone 10 load of tile
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KYancey on sun 30 apr 00
Hi Michelle, A few questions if you dont' mind. I assume this is a
government job. Is Arizona bound by the government in the "Sunshine Law". If
so then other bids are public record and you can call the purchasing dept to
see what others have bid. You might be able to do that anyway. Have you read
the contract? There might be some language in there referring to how much
you can go over your bid if you get the contract (say 10 %.) Experienced
bidders know this and will underbid to get the contract, then concoct a
reason for going over, such as materials increase, had to hire extra help
etc. Talk to your purchasing agent or the person handling the bid process, be
honest and ask these questions. They've been there, done that. Also, how much
can the city department pay before it has to be approved by either the city
manager or, worse yet, city council. You might want to talk to a city staff
person, say a parks manager who is going to supervise the project. That is a
person who you want to make friends with. Is the restoration part going to
take much skill? or is it mostly a grout replacing job? In the cleaning and
maintenance part, is it just scrub brushes? or will it require power
scrubbers? In the end, however, only you know how much your time and energy
are worth. Hope this helps, Ken.
Michelle Lowe wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have the opportunity to bid on a project that involves a small tile
> restoration job and a large cleaning job on a fifteen year old tile piece
> in a park here in the Phoenix area. It's high fire tile so has taken the
> weather wear fairly well, but I have no clue what hourly wage is
> appropriate for something like this.
> It has to be two proposals, one for the tile restoration (small job), and
> one for cleaning and maintenance (big job).
>
> http://www.tempe.gov/commserv/Cultural%20Services/publicart_temple.htm
>
> Anyone out there able to help me? I appreciated all the responses to my
> pitfire question :-)
>
> Mishy, just done firing a cone 10 load of tile
> Michelle Lowe, potter in the Phoenix desert \|/ |
> mishlowe@amug.org -O- | |
> mishlowe@aztec.asu.edu /|\ | | |
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> http://www.amug.org/~mishlowe -\ /-----|-----
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