"Very Good, Jodi"

We bid on three airport jobs this week and we got 2 of them. Whew.
One bid was $1.1 million and the other was $8.1 million.
Glad that's over.

We got the other Airport contract. We bid $6 million plus some extra dollars and cents. There was only one other bidder. We put a bigger profit margin in on this job. It's winter work for our guys. It's been an exhausting week. Making phone calls. Contacting those we solicited to bid as a subcontractor. Just all around... things are getting very busy. Which.... is a good thing. My boss/friend said she can relax now. She, of course, is the one who worries about the budget. The long range dollars. She is very good at what she does. The work now kicks in for the rest of us. On a daily basis. I told Stephanie yesterday, "I just need one work day, without the estimators and the phones. Then I could get caught up."

When I get caught up on the laundry, I'll fill you in on other things.

The company I work for put out a bid today.... for a taxiway and apron at the airport. (It's an international airport) We've done airport work before. I've been on the taxiway, standing there, not in an airplane, when planes have been taxi-ing in and out. Kind of awesome and scary and very loud.

Well, anyway, the bid. We were the low bidder. We got the bid. WE.GOT.THE.BID. $11+ MILLION BID. WE.GOT.IT!!! This is HUGE for our company. HUGE!
Happy Dance. Let's all do the Happy Dance and squeeeeel! Now, we don't make $11 million profit. We get, when all said and done, about 25% of this amount. But, then there are change orders and such, which means, if we pull it all together, without any major hitches, we could profit more than 25%. It was a huge group effort!!

We will be dancing for a few more days.

*UPDATE* There is a 10 day period after the bid, that any other bidder can use to contest the bid. There were 3 other bidders. We were within $300,000.00 of the next bidder. "He" likes to contest bids. We haven't gotten the "Intent to Award" notice yet, but......it's still looking good. So keep your fingers crossed. This is the largest bid our company has EVER put out. We can do the work. It's a project that will take us (meaning us and other subcontractors) two years to finish. Which means two years worth of employment for people.