No contractor likes losing money, but this is often the result when subcontractors are competing for federal contracts.
John J. Dunleavy, executive vice president of Pierce Associates, Inc., Alexandria, VA, in testimony before the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology, described how the Construction Quality Assurance Act of 2000 (H.R. 4012) would protect subcontractors performing work in the federal construction market from things like “bid shopping.”