Originally Posted by
Laffs
It's insane, we used to have no issue with a quote being valid for 30 days, now supplier says call us the day the bid closes to get that days price and then call us back immediately if you are successful bidder so we can secure our raw materials order. Even with doing that we've had an instance where they then came back and said sorry, our raw price just went up 30% so tell either eat the cost, walk away from the job, or try and get the GC or client to absorb it. Fucking nuts.