I wrapped up about 20-30 hours of bid and engineering work for a show that we won the bid on last Friday. I was thinking it was going to be a nice holiday weekend to relax, before we started a small build leading in to the larger project. I was doing the small project simply as sort of a warm up since we haven't done a show since November, and everyone gets a little rusty, plus I had replaced the shop table saw with a different unit which is a story of it's own...
So after having that nice holiday, we descended on the shop, and dove right in to the opera... In about 3 hours most of the flats were framed, and the rough plank faces were going on... Its good to have a good crew... My partner came over at that point (his office is in our second warehouse unit two doors down) and told me the large build project had just been cancelled. Lovely...
Now really, I don't mind losing a bid so much. That's just part of the game, and I'm not willing to undercut the world to get a show and not make money on it... I do however get somewhat upset when we are awarded a show, and I have spent a considerable amount of time doing drawings, and then they pull the plug... Currently we have no system in place to extract any payment for that... I don't know anyone in the industry that does, but I'd suspect someone must... Granted its not like I was doing anything else, so it gave me something to keep me occupied, but it still bothers me... My assumption is, and I think fairly, that if you tell me that we're doing the show, that we're doing the show. I expect changes, and headaches, but with that there is financial benefit... When we get cut out after the bid award point, it really does cost some quantity of money... I guess this year that's just the way the Christmas cookie crumbles...
Posted by Backstage at December 26, 2006 10:23 PM | TrackBack