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Maybe they mean you send in a pro forma invoice and they pay you in advance!
Unlikely tho! I have not come across this before, but as it seems a small contract, they are probably cutting costs on contacts under a certain amount.
We look after a couple of very small units and send in a one-off annual invoice rather than ask for numerous small payments, suits all parties and it's nice to get £300-£400 turn up in bleak January - almost like a bonus.
Could you handle 20 odd days unpaid - only you can say, but it would be a nice lump sum if you can.
Unusual payment terms at the very least. BUT.... you could look at it as money in the bank for your January tax bill, if it suits your way of working, as Colin says only you know if you can take a 3 day a month hit during the growing season. It would certainly suit my business methods providing it was valued at the 10k mark. Do the maths and see if there is a way to make it work for you. Even pricing the work at a less profit margin would be worth looking at, providing the contract is of a decent 10k + value.
Hi,
any idea a best website to find the leads from council?
Thank you!!
The contracts only worth 2-3K so enough to be outstanding, but probably not enough to wait 12 months for!
If your a one man oufit Richard, I would say it is a "good money in the bank tax bill job".Even if you have an employee its worth looking at in detail. Getting council approved contractor status is / can be very profitable from ad hoc extra works that may come your way from this if your successfull in winning the work.
Richard Thornton said:
Thanks Brian, but thinking about it I'm not temped by this one! There are errors in the invitation to tender! One site requires the waste to be put in the on site compost bin - there isn't one! Just before issuing the tender the council signed up for an eco scheme on one site - not reflected in the spec. Best of all they want seven cuts a year, so is that monthly, or every day for one week! The whole thing is sloppy! I put these points to a councillor who replied that the detail would be in the contract! But they wont let the successful tenderer withdraw, so are asking for a binding tender based on incomplete and vague info! Best of all they say they pay annually as that is what currently happens with the (large) contractor! Thought Councils were supposed to help local businesses!!!
I would say that the person dealing with this is very incompetent at best, yeah good decision... walk lol.
Richard Thornton said:
Yeah the current guy can keep it! Funnily enough when this contract came up two years ago (was only supposed to be for one but they delayed issuing this tender!) he was the only tenderer to be shown round the sites by the chairman of the council....