As a municipal infrastructure owner,it makes sense to get the best value for your money on your projects and often that means getting the lowest bid for municipal storm and sanitary sewer cleaning services. In this neck of the woods, we often see cleaning bid prices vary by an order of magnitude for the same work, leaving one to wonder how contractors who do this work can bid with such wide variations in their pricing? Are these simply variations in the market price for the service or is something else going on? Maybe the terms and risk associated with the work are being interpreted differently by the bidders? Perhaps some of the bidders are attempting to game the system, maybe some are simply willing to take on elevated risk in the hope that the work is not defined correctly, perhaps some are rolling the dice?
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