Posted on 09/28/2012 6:53:22 PM PDT by SMGFan
I’m an engineer and years ago worked as a sub-consultant for a NYC Parks job. Almost as a favor to help a contractor that was in over their head and wanted to get the job over with.
They are actually very very very frugal with spending but in a completely idiotic way. Basically, their rules force them to save $1 today even if it means that they will end up losing $100 over the course of the project.
The rules are intended to reduce corruption and favors to connected firms but instead they get “impossibly low bidder” unqualified firms that give up once they realize how much money they are losing jumping through Parks’ hoops. Eventually you end up with a building that was basically rebuilt several times in pieces by several of these incompetent firms fixing each other mistakes.
Most firms that foolishly win a Parks job never ever bid on them again. I know at least 5 firms that went bankrupt after making a deal with the devil known as “Parks”.
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