Garney provides “real time” bid day for students

JANUARY 2015 — Students at the University of Nebraska at Kearney received a hands-on experience to bid a treatment plant. On November 7, 2014, Garney employee-owners conducted a bid day for undergraduates in the Construction Management program. Students were presented with a former bid, previously bid by Garney’s Central Plant Group.

Garney provided drawings and an outline of the project requirements which were given to teams. In 20-minute intervals, teams were given packages of actual subcontractor and supplier quotes from the bid. The students were responsible for analyzing the quotes, adjudicating, and making any adjustments to the bid. All bids were deemed responsive by employee-owners Gary Bittner, Mark Miner, Brian Schultz, and Darous Allton at the predetermined time, but true to standard, only one team was crowned victorious as the low bidder.

Garney conducts student bid days on various university campuses as a way to educate students with real time circumstances employed when estimating treatment facility projects.