Bids Quotes

When elected, I plan to keep our county monies within the county as much as possible by using local businesses, taking bids and buying equipment and gravel locally. I would also like to tell all county employees they will keep their jobs. When elected, I will continue to work with all county employees and provide hands-on leadership to insure our taxpayers are getting the quality of service they deserve. - Dale Freeman

What will slow this market down, and has slowed certain segments of the market down, is overpricing... Back in the spring there was such a frenzy that very pedestrian product was drawing multiple bids. - Pamela Liebman

What I think is going to happen now is we're going to look at how the market looks at the two competing bids. - Thomas O'Donnell

We've had to truly earn our bids. Since the PAC doesn't have an automatic bid, we've had to get there the hard way by convincing an unbiased national committee that we should be selected among the nation's elite teams. - Aaron Huffman

We've had a soil contamination problem, and our steel bids came in pretty dramatically over what we thought the estimate was going to be. Between those two, we've exhausted a good part of our contingency fund. - David Frick

We've had a lot of people comment that maybe our league deserves an automatic bid more than leagues that have automatic bids, without naming names. - Craig Thompson

We've given a lot of the data away and a lot of companies have studied it - some companies have made bids on the basis of receiving the data. - Adam Feeley

We're working on a couple of bids right now where, in both cases, the procurement cycle has extended beyond what we normally would have thought it would--we're talking months in terms of slippage of this particular type of procurement. There's a lot more checking and double checking, and making sure that all the regulatory issues that we have to be concerned about are properly addressed. - Howard Mains

We're under siege and I don't get it. We deserved every bid. We earned them. We deserved six bids and we should have had five, because I don't understand how they can look at Missouri State and not put them in. - Doug Elgin

We're seeing more hostile bids than we ever have before. Part of it is the overall increase in activity -- if you're more confident, you're more likely to do something on a hostile basis. - Peter Buzzi