Independent Contractors
» Independent Contractors, Volume 8, Issue 6, 2008
If respondent, within the last three years, engaged any contractor to remodel, renovate, install, or do construction-type work on their business premises or facilities that amounted to $10,000 or more AND their most recent job completed cost more than $10,000 AND put the job up for a competitive bid.
4e. What was the single most important factor that influenced your choice of the winning bid? Was it:?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Time to complete the project | 13 | ||
| 2 | Bidder’s experience | 9 | ||
| 3 | Recommendations from others | 15 | ||
| 4 | Price | 16 | ||
| 5 | Workmanship or quality | 22 | ||
| 6 | Worked for you previously | 21 | ||
| 7 | Other | 2 | ||
| 8 | DK/Refuse | 2 | ||
| Total (%) | 100 | |||
| N | 84 | |||
Notes: The single most important factor that influenced the winning bid for 21 percent of small employers (excluding contractors), who within the last three years engaged any contractor to remodel, renovate, install, or do construction-type work on their business premises or facilities that amounted to $10,000 or more and their most recent job completed cost more than $10,000 and put the job up for a competitive bid, was that they worked with them previously (Q#4e).
