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Winning Bids – How to Succeed As a Self-Performing Contractor in Competitive Markets

  • Perla Irish
  • July 26, 2023
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  1. 1. Be Prepared
  2. 2. Know Your Limits
  3. 3. Be Honest
  4. 4. Be Flexible
  5. 5. Follow Up

Maintaining records of all your bids can help increase your success rate and identify trends related to project type, technical specifications, or competitors that influence the bid-hit ratio.

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Winning Bids – How to Succeed As a Self-Performing Contractor in Competitive Markets

Bidding on projects you cannot win can lead to both burnout and productivity losses, making a bid that goes nowhere a waste of time and resources.

After reading today’s blog post, you can click the following link to learn about the pros and cons of self-perform construction.

1. Be Prepared

Before submitting a bid, ensure it makes financial sense for your firm. This requires reviewing all project documentation, plans, and specifications and crunching numbers to determine whether you can turn a profit on the job.

If the job won’t be profitable, it is prudent to pass up this opportunity and focus your efforts on appropriate projects. Doing this can save time and money while building trust with clients who may view your custom bid binder in future contracts.

Furthermore, passing up opportunities may reduce risks of making costly estimating errors that could cost the contract, such as leaving out scope items or using incorrect units of measurement; such mistakes can prove disastrous if left uncorrected and result in lost business deals.


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2. Know Your Limits

No matter the effort put into submitting bids, some projects are out of your grasp, no matter how hard you try to win them.

If the project requires expertise outside your skill set, your bids won’t match up against those submitted by evaluation teams who already possess experience and skill levels far superior to your own. Keep this in mind, and don’t waste your time bidding on projects you are unlikely to win.

Modern tools can help you analyze your win-loss ratio by client, project type, and location to help determine which projects merit investing your time vs. which don’t. Once this analysis has been performed, you can focus on crafting proposals that increase the odds of victory.

3. Be Honest

Bidding can be time-consuming. If you want to make sure that your efforts are worthwhile, it’s essential to establish a strategy for prioritizing which bids to respond to and which to ignore. In this way, bid preparation becomes a worthwhile investment of your time and energy.

Noting the humanity in us all, mistakes happen – estimating errors won’t likely cause much harm, while larger errors like leaving scope items out or making inaccurate measurements could cause problems. Take the time to carefully review estimates and bid proposals before finalizing either one.

Clear, descriptive scopes of work for projects are equally as crucial, helping avoid confusion over assumptions or clarifications and enabling more straightforward bidding comparison.

Doing this ensures all bidders can compare bids fairly, keeping everyone on an even playing field, eliminating unfair pricing risks, and being beneficial to business.

4. Be Flexible

Bidding on projects takes time, so manufacturing companies must choose their bid responses carefully. Before responding, they must take the time to read each project plan and scope and confirm their pricing accuracy.

Bid responses should also be tailored specifically to each project, with reference to measurement systems (imperial or metric). These tailored answers meet each project’s requirements and case studies/customer testimonials that demonstrate your success in similar endeavors.

Staying flexible as a self-performing contractor will enable you to stay ahead of schedule during construction. Labor shortages have forced many general contractors to adjust their teams as necessary in order to manage project resources effectively.

5. Follow Up

It is worth taking the time and effort to craft an appropriate bid proposal at any opportunity. While building an industrial subdivision might differ greatly from building a church, both projects share similar requirements such as site management, managing costs and variations, suppliers, and liaison with stakeholders.

If you find yourself consistently losing bids, it’s essential to explore why. Perhaps too many competitors are bidding against you or contractors with superior profit margins are winning bids against you – whatever the cause, this presents an opportunity to improve your bid-hit ratio by targeting more productive opportunities or hiring a bid consultant who can advise on strategy, write responses or review submissions.

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Perla Irish

Perla Irish, who is more familiarly known as Irish, is the Content Manager at Dreamlandsdesign.com. She loves following trends around home and garden, interior design, and digital marketing. Through this blog, Irish wants to share information and help readers solve the problems they are experiencing.

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