We agree on a timetable, and once it has started, the owners want the jobs to be done quicker. They expect us to be able to handle that because we're so big. Partnering O wners still prefer the concept of the partnering team. Partnering is widespread on all types of jobs in both the private and public sectors. Most of our clients on our major work utilize the team concept.
Contractors are together from the job's inception.
Jim Sanders, president of Sanders Brothers in Gaffney, S.C., says his company has been partnering for four years. When done in good faith, and where people are serious about it, it can be very successful. Partnering, says Andy Fimiano, ceo of Southland Industries in Long Beach, Calif., is beginning to change the way the traditional bid process works. I don't agree with the fact that you've got 12 guys bidding and the lowest one automatically becomes a partner. True partnering is good.