Bid Shopping
Bid shopping is considered an unethical application used by contractors to gain advantage over their clients in the bidding process. Bid shopping can be harmful to the construction industry because it creates an unhealthy establishment environment, eliminates the benefits of the bid system, promotes lower standards of quality performance, delays project culmination and reduces job site safety.
Attempts have been made to stop bid shopping through contract law but these attempts have not been successful. Educating contractors of the effects of bid shopping is a means of help to reduce the amount of bid shopping that occurs.
Introduction
Graduates of construction programs will be responsible to discover and use processes that allow contractors to increase cheaper, faster and more efficient projects. To accomplish this, students must be taught methods that accomplish this goal and educated about methods that do not accomplish this goal. One method that prevents the goal of building cheaper, faster and more efficient projects is bid shopping. Bid shopping is an unethical office practically that hinders progress in construction and hurts the construction industry.
To better explain how bid shopping has a detrimental effect on the construction industry, this thesis examines how bid shopping occurs in the bidding process, the difference between pre- and post-award bid shopping and the effects of each, and what has been done to try and eliminate the practice.
The Bidding Process
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