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Originally Posted by Kodos
I've never once had being a white male in the U.S. work against me.
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For the sake of discussion. I have, in the last week.
Last Wednesday I bid a job for the state of SC. I was low bid, but #2 was a MBE. So he got a 6% reduction on his bid price which was ~3% over mine.
2 hour after the bid, the owner of #2 called me. He does not have the manpower or expertise to complete the job. But he wants me to do the job for him as a sub-contractor and do it at his bid price. He will just keep the 3% margin.
He wants to make $150,000 for no work. Just for being an MBE. And you know what. I may do it. Because I can go be excellent at my job, beat our estimate, maybe find a couple change orders and make a couple hundred grand for my company and employ 21 more guys for 5 more months.
I dont have a problem with laws favoring minority business interests. I am just pointing out that it does happen.