Site Walk Tuesday
Barry finally opens a tender pack at the kitchen table on Thursday night and finds the mandatory site walk on page thirty-one. It was Tuesday. Seven a.m.
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A lot of civil and construction tenders come with a mandatory site inspection. Miss it and you are out, no matter how sharp your price would have been. The date is usually buried deep in the pack, and it often lands only a few days after the tender is released.
That is the trap for anyone who looks for tenders when the jobs allow. By the time you sit down with the pack on a Thursday night, the walk has been and gone and the weeks left on the closing date do not matter. You never got to price a thing.
The fix is seeing the pack early enough to read it properly. Helm Tender brings Queensland Government, Brisbane City Council and federal tenders into one feed and sends a daily digest of the ones that fit your business, so the site walk date turns up while there is still time to make it.
What they say
Barry: G'day, I'm Barry. I love doin' business the way I always have.
Dave: And I'm Dave. I used to. Then I found a better way.
Barry: Thursday night. Kitchen table. Finally open this.
Dave: And?
Barry: Page thirty-one. Down the bottom.
Barry: Mandatory site walk. Tuesday. Seven a.m.
Dave: This Tuesday?
Barry: ...Just gone.
Dave: There's your site walk.
Barry: Bought new boots for it.
Barry: Tag's still on.
Dave: Twenty years we've priced against each other.
Barry: You beat me on the council culvert.
Dave: You beat me on the next three.
Barry: I look for tenders when the jobs let me.
Dave: Thursday nights. My old way.
Dave: Mine's Helm Tender. One briefing every morning. Just the ones that fit.
Dave: I read the pack over breakfast.
Barry: So you were there Tuesday.
Dave: Front row. Seven sharp.
Barry: I'm up at five.
Dave: Then you'd have made it.
Barry: Go on then. Show us.
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Barry and Dave are fictional characters.