right". Please report to me with the facts,

issues and your recommendations related to

the last bid package prepared by GCI.

John Mitchell, CPC

President, GCI

About fifteen minutes before bid time, the manager of estimating

determined that GCI was the only bidder on the job and instructed

the junior estimator to increase the total bid including regular

overhead and profit by $25\%$ which is still within the owner's

budget price.