There is a reason the amigos are building the american connectivity dream. You bid at caucasian prevailing wage, then you hire three amigos and pay one prevailing wage, the other two technichally arent there. Right off the bat you can shave 2/3 your labor expense off the bid.
Down the road from me they nabbed an amigo house, 28 mattresses in there. You can work for 1/3 a wage when youre splitting living expenses 28 ways. There should always be reciepts. Note in the funding they never put in oversight inspectors. Personally i think any "free money" projects from the government should have grift inspectors budgeted in. It should be called the department of poindexters, little slimy weasel nerds who snitched on everybody in school and ate their own snot. Even better, we only let amigos bid on the money, will get done faster, better, cheaper and with way better music On Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 8:24 PM Chuck <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep, you get the whole enchalada. So hopefully your costs are way below > you bid. > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 28, 2025, at 6:41 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I know that BEAD is supposed to pay 75% and the provider 25%, with some > exceptions. But the states are administering the program, and the award > goes to the provider who bid the lowest price for the project area. > > > > So is their bid what they get, or do they get 75% of that? Or do they > still need to submit actual labor & materials costs and they get 75% of > that? I’m confused. > > > > For example, let’s say the winning bid for an area with 200 locations is > $5,000 per location, $1 million total. And let’s say it only costs $500K > to connect all 200 locations, but nobody bid lower than $1 million. > > > > Does BEAD pay out 75% of the $500K actual documented cost? 75% of the $1 > million bid? Or the full $1 million because the bids were already supposed > to factor in the 75/25 split? > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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