I Have A Little Story

Originally Posted by jmacd

I spoke with the CFO yesterday. I told here the story exactly as it took place and then asked her what her thoughts were.

She says " I need to talk to him and will get back to you, I will also include my compliance officer".

I get a call today from the compliance officer and tell her the same story. I also tell her that I struggled a great deal with what to do because I was on the loosing end if I did something about it or just chalked it up to a bad experience.

In the end I decided to do what I felt was rite. She said that she appreciated that. I agreed and also admitted that I should of called that first day when I met with my contact. I also indicated that I didn't want to "burn any bridges along the way" and she indicated that that wasn't the case we still could be awarded the work. I guess it is possible for this to have a outcome better than I ever dreamed it would but in the end I feel that I did the rite thing no matter what the outcome.

I will keep you guys updated as this unfolds.

Originally Posted by jmacd

Just wondering what you guys think. I could be just venting but maybe there is something wrong. I plow snow in the winter and had a disturbing thing happen to me yesterday. I received a call from a potential customer for plowing snow. He says that they have two parking lots that he needs a quote for for plowing and salt. I go and meet this guy and look at booth parking lots. These are assisted living buildings paid for by the state from tax dollars. When I give the property manager the price he says that I was a little low and tells me to add about $3000.00 to my quote. He says "I don't want you to get hurt". Then he instructs me to fax over my quote for both properties. Just to qualify this it was about 25k worth of plowing so was definitely an account I wanted. I call this guy yesterday and he says " oh you didn't get a letter, we went with another guy he was less than $500 lower than you" I say "you told me what to quote, my number was lower but you instructed me to quote higher" This guy is employed by the property the head maintenance guy. I hang up the phone and bells start to go off in my head, if so what to do about it. What do you guys think, am I nuts or do you think I was just used to get the number higher for someone my contact wanted to use.

Originally Posted by jmacd

gallerytungsten, that certainly is the common opinion here. After everyone here concluded that this was the case my next question was:

Should I let it drop or complain to the CFO of the organization?

I think I did what was hard to do not easy and hopefully it won't come back to bite me in the ass.

Originally Posted by jmacd

Thank Framer for your post, I did indeed report it to CFO and the compliance officer so waiting on the outcome and no I did not receive contract at this point. All CFO's are politically connected in my, our town.

Originally Posted by jmacd

Yah, I don't belong to that one. They did send me a invitation to belong but don't golf much, ( should be working during the summer not golfing) too much money etc.

Originally Posted by jmacd

Bid rigging is what I first typed but thought maybe I wouldn't use that term. I do have a call into "chief financial officer", she hasn't called me back yet. If I do talk to her I will tell the story as it happened and let the chips fall. I doubt I will get the work and my contact isn't going to like me much. We just had a huge story here this summer with full page stories on the front page of the local paper and bid rigging was the subject, a few guys lost their jobs over it. Do you think I should pursue it, whats my end game, what the best end result I can expect.

Originally Posted by jmacd

Day, it was public funds. I am still going to the corner though. I did everything I thought was right and not spend any money doing it.