well that was... fun?

Some people are walking disaster areas.

On Tuesday we received an invitation to submit a proposal and the guy running it is a complete and total numpty. Almost everything he did or asked for was either stupid or contradictory.

For example, the ITT turned up and they'd changed the title, but didn't tell us. We'd previously done an expression of interest for it and it was called something else then. So when my boss got this she thought it was something new and wasted a day before she realised.

Then the deadline for the ITT was Thursday. By post. They'd given us less than 3 days to put together an entire ITT. My boss had to basically bully the guy into excepting an electronic version, even though all of our other customers are happy to take electronic versions with hard copy to follow.

And it wasn't a simple ITT, it had all sorts of little bits and bobs and nauseating, un-necessary crap to it. The best example of this is that it required that the document have 3 sections, 2 of which contained pricing information.

Fair enough, because what you normally end up doing is producing a priced and un-priced version, where you blank out the pricing information. However, they didn't want a priced version. That's right - we put these things in the ITT only to blank them out. They then wanted the bits with the price on separately!

It's just been ridiculous, and all basically caused by this guy.