@hazelweakly@PJ_Evans@mekkaokereke My dad was a federal highway engineer back in the day and I remember him telling me that they were actually mandated to pass over bids that were thought to be unrealistically low. This is in marked contrast to my area where a contractor that I knew lost out on a bid to do the sidewalks on a huge project by so much that he actually took the time to recalculate it after the fact. And verified that the winning bid was less than the cost of the concrete alone. And we wonder why so much of our infrastructure is shit.
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