First large bid

Larry Brennan

Larry Brennan

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I have a connection to an influential person at a resort in my state and have been given an opportunity to bid on a large deck and concrete job around their pools, spas and lounge areas. I have not seen how much area it actually is, but, will in the next few days and have been told it is several very large areas.
I know everyone has varying opinions on pricing and the yields are different for various areas around the country. However, this is a massive opportunity and I don't want to screw it up for myself or the customer.
I'm figuring I may have to price this differently than one would a home because of it's size and the possibility of scheduled maintainance cleaning and the fact that it is a vacation resort.
So, I am asking for any suggestions on how to approach this regarding pricing, chems, pitfalls or whatever you may have to offer.
Feel free to pm me or email me at labrenn at aol.com. Thanks.
 
I have a 4 gal/min 4000 psi cold water unit and 250 gal tank with a flojet pump. If I get this job I will purchase a flat surface cleaner.
 
Is it concrete or coated concrete, is it Kool Deck? It matters on how you clean it if its more than just bare concrete. Do you have a surface cleaner. Stuff can go from $.08 and way up depending on surface, what time you can clean it, and where you live etc etc. Get more info, type, sq footage pictures etc
 
Thanks. I'm gonna get up there this weekend to get a look at things before my meetings. What is coated concrete?
 
Speak with the connected person and try to learn what the numbers are. Then indiacte that you would very much like to do business with them. Show what you can offer them and see if you can make their budget for the project. The most importnat thing to get is the "first in"....it will flow from there. Best of luck, Mike.
 
sometime with concrete they put a protective coating on it
 
Looks like this turned out to be a dead end. The pool maintainance there has taken on the pwing. Thanks for the input guys.
 
Sorry it fell through - this time. In general, you should be able to gage how fast you can work, so you need to determine an hourly rate. Once you have that number, you can break it out any way the customer wants: by the ft; hr; job. As you gain experience, you'll get better at estimating.

(When I started, my goal was $50/hr, its now at least $100. I'm not really charging a lot more, I'm just a lot faster than I was.)
 
Thanks for the suggestions and by all means, keep 'em coming. I figured there may still be an opportunity there. Perhaps in doing a demo after they are done cleaning. The pool people are an inhouse dept.
Anyway, there may at least be opportunity in doing their windows. I do all the windows for my wife's cleaning business when she gets construction cleanups.
 
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