If the proposed bidder has worked mostly with metals, then they may not understand the idiosyncrasies of working with resilient flooring, linoleum or rubber, for example. They may not understand that linoleum must acclimate to its environment prior to being worked with which increases the delivery time. They may not know about the amount of time it takes to reassemble goods and work with installers. They may bid only for the cutting portion of the job and then throw the pieces into a box, leaving the installer with thousands of pieces to assemble prior to installing. They may not be aware of the marriage between one tile and the next because their company has been involved largely in nesting (or cutting many pieces inside of a large sheet or slab of material).

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