Chameleon Contractors
March 5, 2014
by
John W. Carpita, PE
Category:
Administration
I recently received a research request involving a contractor who was operating under several names, which in itself is not a bad thing, but in this instance at least one of those "aliases" was an obvious attempt to cover up a bad reputation as another company. MRSC and the agency's attorney had discussions about how to develop supplemental bidder responsibility criteria to address this issue. At the time I was unable to find suitable sample language to help him. So, I was pleasantly surprised this morning to find that Mike Purdy had ably addressed this issue in his blog post entitled:
Are Reincarnated Construction Companies Responsible Bidders?
Please take time to read Mike's post on his Public Contracting Blog.
Are Reincarnated Construction Companies Responsible Bidders?
Please take time to read Mike's post on his Public Contracting Blog.
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About John W. Carpita, PE
John was MRSC’s resource for many years on engineering design, purchasing and contracting issues, local improvement districts, and other infrastructure issues. He had a widely varied career as a consultant, county engineer, city engineer and project manager. He is now retired.
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