The Government Contract

[gbear]

This has been around, I thought I would share it
Jim

How its done!

Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House in
D.C..

One from New Jersey , another from Tennessee and the third, Texas . They
go with a White House official to examine the fence.

The New Jersey contractor takes out a tape measure and does some Measuring,
then works some figures with a pencil. "Well," he says, "I figure the job
will run about $900: $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100 profit
for me."

The Tennessee contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says,
I can do this job for $700: $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100
profit for me."

The Texas contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to the
White House official and whispers, "$2,700."

The official, incredulous, says, "You didn't even measure like the other
guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?"

The Texas contractor whispers back, "$1,000 for me, $1,000 for you,
and we hire the guy from Tennessee to fix the fence."

"Done deal !" replies the government official

[bigcountrysg]

Originally Posted by gbear

This has been around, I thought I would share it
Jim

How its done!

Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House in
D.C..

One from New Jersey , another from Tennessee and the third, Texas . They
go with a White House official to examine the fence.

The New Jersey contractor takes out a tape measure and does some Measuring,
then works some figures with a pencil. "Well," he says, "I figure the job
will run about $900: $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100 profit
for me."

The Tennessee contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says,
I can do this job for $700: $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100
profit for me."

The Texas contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to the
White House official and whispers, "$2,700."

The official, incredulous, says, "You didn't even measure like the other
guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?"

The Texas contractor whispers back, "$1,000 for me, $1,000 for you,
and we hire the guy from Tennessee to fix the fence."

"Done deal !" replies the government official

You forgot the guy from the ghetto, He don't look, he don't measure, he just shows up with a fence and says 995.00

[rlg]

haha nice one

[MrJohnWayne]

nice!

[ABOBB]

OK.. so now I understand why things end up costing them so much.

I knew there was something up.. just didn't quite understand the whole deal.

[bigcountrysg]

Don't forget the guy that just got terminated.

Hey you need to pay for my engineering degree so I know how to build the fence and better myself in life then you need to pay me to come design the new fence, then you need to pay me to higher a contractor that will build you the fence. My total cost to you will be 1.5 Million.

[Heat]

There is probably alot of truth in that.....

Ken....

[stump0331]

ewwwwwwwwwwww thats ought gbear

[Big Tone]

The way they would probably do it is they would give three contractor a million a piece to build a prototype fence, then they would give the winner a billion dollers to build the fence and 10 more fences that they would say dont exist.

[straycat]

hahaha, thats the gov. way.