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  • If I just lick a finger, hold it in the air and then…
  • matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    …write down the first number that comes into my head. I win the contract, no?

    Amazing we are still seeing these kind of ‘mistakes’ happen. Strikes me that the bidder also has their profit doubled immediately…

    Bonging clock costs twice a shed load of wonga:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41444415

    P-Jay
    Free Member

    Maybe,

    Invariably though what happens in these cases is that the contractor will be given a job with a set of perimeters and quote based on that.

    Once they been awarded the work and go over it in great detail every Tom, Dick and Harry even vaguely connected with it will want to put their mark on it for the sake of their own profile / ego / “needs” aka dream and wishes at someone elses expense and it doubles in scale and complexity.

    thecaptain
    Free Member

    Anyone want to bet it finally comes in below 100m?

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    themilo
    Free Member

    This stuff really annoys me. How can it possibly cost that. I reckon mcmoonter could do it for bugger all.

    We’re paying I assume.

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    We always pay.

    Don’t forget the works were signed off by cross party committee, who subsequently backtracked when the first lot of figures and Big Bens estimated lack of Bong was outed…

    So all involved, all signed for it. All to blame but the contractor walks away happy.. that’s commercialism for you.

    P-Jay
    Free Member

    Nah the MPs and Lords have had a whip round for it.

    They’re doing Buckingham Palace too.

    slackalice
    Free Member

    So all involved, all signed for it. All to blame but the contractor walks away happy.. that’s commercialism corruption for you.

    FTFY

    It’s nice to help your chums.

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    😆

    coconut
    Free Member

    The original estimate would have come from the client (QS and P6 planner)…civil service

    Went to tender and real construction companies costed this and got the real figures… Mace, Skanska, Multiplex, Ovebury, Vinci, Bouyges .. etc…

    The real cost is the tier 1 principal contractor who do this for a living.

    Bit like Mrs Jones thinks her house is worth £1million but builder comes and assesses it and finds it full to rot and old blown fronting, asbestos and subsidence… not quite what Mrs Jones thinks…

    huckleberryfatt
    Free Member

    Does that include changing the chime to La Cucaracha?

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