Contractor Rant

[Jason Mak]

Few questions for the BP community:

1.  How do you deal with a contractor that asks what other estimates have come in at and then either matches the price or beats it by just a little bit, then expects to win the work?  (assume quality of work is the same)

My response has always been "put your best foot forward - if you want to play the game of undercutting another estimate, I'll also give the other contractor a shot at undercutting yours.

2.  What do you do/think, when a contractor bad mouths another one during the bidding process?