Issue №1081 · procurement · advanced

The cheapest bid is 30% under. What do you suspect?

In 200 words, walk through your skepticism of a 30%-below-market services bid. Name three failure modes (lowballing, scope misread, capacity gap) and the questions you'd ask in BAFO to test which one is in play.

Writing prompt · 200 words · Graded across structure, depth, clarity, judgment


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principle

Lowest-bid wins on commodity; on services, lowest-bid usually loses.