"general incompetence of public management, by misunderstanding how contractors manipulated costs to reach their estimates and establishing perverse incentives"
1. In the Bay Area, we have a Civil Contractor who's name rhymes with the Italian treat gelato.
2. For years, I wondered how they procure every job.
3. I have seen the jobs go on for years. It's beyond irritating.
4. As a inactive Contractor, I kinda know how the system works.
5. Basically, the county/state/public entity puts up a project to bid upon.
6. They collect at least three bids. I always thought, How is Gilato always winning the bid?
7. I started looking closely at three contenders in the contest. I noticed a Gilato is in all the "competing" companies. (It looked like they sent their kids/grandkids to Sacramento to get their contractor's license. A pretty easy feat. )
8. I have a weird feeling this family is bidding against themselfs, but can't prove it. Even if they are, it might not be illegial? I don't even think it's illegial to share those expensive toys. "Hay dad--I need that loader for Friday!"
9. All I know is it's taking forever to get a project completed.
Even if we have a big infrastructure bill pass through congress, I don't think it's going to put a lot of people back to work; so much of these projects are done by big machines. They will hire a lot of sign holders though.
It's a lot more nuanced than my simple rambling, but throwing a bunch of money at Giloto will scare me--if Trump gets this infrastructure bill passed. I gave no real proof for what I just said, other than noticing familiar names in the competing contracting companies.
They've been around for ever, so yeah their family has hooks into all sorts of things (and yes there are a large number of related companies). They're well known for being racists and felons (look up Patrick sometime). Word on the street when I was a kid was that they'd hire undocumented folks and then refuse to pay -- no idea how true that is/was.
1. In the Bay Area, we have a Civil Contractor who's name rhymes with the Italian treat gelato.
2. For years, I wondered how they procure every job.
3. I have seen the jobs go on for years. It's beyond irritating.
4. As a inactive Contractor, I kinda know how the system works.
5. Basically, the county/state/public entity puts up a project to bid upon.
6. They collect at least three bids. I always thought, How is Gilato always winning the bid?
7. I started looking closely at three contenders in the contest. I noticed a Gilato is in all the "competing" companies. (It looked like they sent their kids/grandkids to Sacramento to get their contractor's license. A pretty easy feat. )
8. I have a weird feeling this family is bidding against themselfs, but can't prove it. Even if they are, it might not be illegial? I don't even think it's illegial to share those expensive toys. "Hay dad--I need that loader for Friday!"
9. All I know is it's taking forever to get a project completed.
Even if we have a big infrastructure bill pass through congress, I don't think it's going to put a lot of people back to work; so much of these projects are done by big machines. They will hire a lot of sign holders though.
It's a lot more nuanced than my simple rambling, but throwing a bunch of money at Giloto will scare me--if Trump gets this infrastructure bill passed. I gave no real proof for what I just said, other than noticing familiar names in the competing contracting companies.