“Gov’ner, I demand immediate access to this information!”
A while back, my team submitted a proposal to Chesapeake County, Virginia for a disaster recovery mobile application that the county was looking to create. I’d never built a mobile app so I put on my HR hat and found InfinixSoft down in Buenos Aires. These guys are rockstar iPhone/iPad app designers and we quickly struck a deal to bid on the project. Two short weeks later, we’d submitted a bid for just under $30,000 to build the app.
A month following our submission, a received horrifying, yet vastly insightful news. Not only did Chesapeake County decline our bid, they awarded the contract to a company who priced their services at over $150,000! We were wayyyy off the mark in terms of pricing, but because I was able to get a hold of the winning contract that our competitor submitted, we never underpriced our services again!
