Suppose you are a network systems provider and are bidding for the job of providing and installing a system for a new government office building. You are considering submitting one of three bids: a low bid of $500,000, a medium bid of $600,000, and a high bid of $700,000. The cost of the job to you will be $450,000, regardless of your bid. Thus, if you submit a bid of $500,000 and win the contract, your profit will be $500,000...
Question is on Case Problem 1, Solution Plus. Its from the textbook "Quantitative Methods for Business, 13th Edition". Solutions Plus is an industrial chemicals company that produces specialized cleaning fluids and solvents for a wide variety of applications. Solutions Plus just received an invitation to submit a bid to supply Great North American railroad with a cleaning fluid for locomotives. Great North American needs the cleaning fluid at 11 locations (railway stations); it provided the following information to Solutions Plus...
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ABC General Contractors ABC General Contractors was an established construction company handling small-to medium- sized commercial and industrial construction projects. Some recent projects that the company had completed were a 20,000-square-foot factory building, a four-story office building, and a water filtration plant. TELEVISION TOWER BID The company was now in the process of preparing a bid for a television station for the erection of a 225-foot-high television antenna tower and the...
TORENTO CONSTRUCTION: ETHICAL CONTRACTING On December 27, 2010, Cary Holmes, manager of the Supply Chain Management (SCM) group at Torento Construction Inc. (NCG), was in his office in Torento, Ontario, trying to organize the thoughts running through his head as a result of a recent bidding to save operating costs at NCG. There was no problem in terms of the final outcome; in fact, the bid was going to result in cost savings of 25 per cent, which was exactly...
HDT Truck Company HDT Truck Company has been located in Crown Point, Indiana, since 1910. Its only products— large trucks—are built to individual customer specifications. The firm once produced automobiles but dropped out of the auto business in 1924. The firm nearly went out of business in the late 1930s, but by 1940 its fortunes were buoyed by receipt of several military contracts for tank retrievers—large-wheeled vehicles that can pull a disabled tank onto a low trailer and haul it...