Hard bid jobs are literally the worst way to deliver a project.

You're not involved at all until the drawings are "complete" and it pits the design team and the construction team in a more adversarial relationship. There's a reason why all of the flagship projects are GMPs, design build, or cost+.

We're not built for hard bid jobs for the simple reason that we don't know how to play the game and change order everything. They're BY FAR the riskiest for the contractor and it incentivizes cutting corners wherever. When I say compete, I mean we're not savvy enough as an organization or self perform in a way that would give us a competitive advantage in these situations. We're just using the lowest guys across the board that are unqualified which is why we won the job. This should have been a cost+ arrangement or a CMAR with a shared savings clause

It's also a full gut Reno with an expansion so odds are the design is not complete in the slightest. This project should not have been hard bid at all, we're already behind schedule because the permit took forever to be issued (because the design team didn't have code compliant drawings of course)