How's business for everyone?

[will butterwort]

for the university in east central alabama and can go over the state if the contract is big enough, and we are slow, cities, counties, business are all pulling back.One city i recently did a proposal for took my proposal methodology ,re-wrote it into an rfp and sent it to all my competitors.Haven,t pulled in a good contract in six months.But, the general economy is good here, unemployment is low, but climbing, construction is level, lot of folks work in auto manuf. plants, tier one, two, three, four suppliers.Another point for american auto. manuf., is labor costs has taken rd funds away so our products are not competitive in the market . Jap. cars are the best, european, next best and american cars ,last as far as quality. We drive Buicks, mustang, and chevy truck at our house--get good service from lesabre, and no qualms from mustang.Put 411,000 miles on park avenue once--good car.Country is hurting, but most of the root causes are caused by washington.Will-alabama

[Bobcat]

Will ... interesting comment about a city taking your proposal , rewriting it and sending it to your competitors . Had that happen to me some years ago , so I started being as vague as I could get away with ... and when pinned down , I put false data , circuits that had errors in them and sized components wrong . If I got the bid , I just corrected the errors .... if my competitor got it using my stuff .... well ... tough $hit . I actually had a company try to come back on me to rectify a problem my competitor had using my sizing calculations on the hydraulic motors . I bet you can guess what I told them !
It`s a shame that business has sunk to that level .... I can remember when things were done on a handshake .