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Competitive Bidding

Overcoming the Winner’s Curse

by Ben Wilhelm, President, Carolinas Region, Shiel Sexton Company on July 10, 2018

Winner’s curse is defined as bidding low enough to win, but regretting the results. Winner’s curse assumes the bidder (general contractors in this case) makes below normal or negative profits upon award of the work. This dilemma has plagued the construction industry for generations. I write this article to offer some contributing factors to why…

Topics: Contracting, Featured
Competitive Bidding, Construction

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