Quote:Ok ill bite it seems to me that over the last several bids it was seagraves to loose. I was always told seagrave didnt want to do the 5 year warranty any more they broke even on the bid or lost money. My source might have been wrong but thats what i was told.Your source was mistaken. The warranty wasn't the deal breaker on the latest engine bidding. KME was the lowest bid by a sizable margin over Ferrara and even more so over Seagrave. That's why KME was awarded the work.
I can't say what Seagrave's position is regarding the FDNY work, but IMO there's pretty much two ways to look at the recent engine bids when you have a price difference of a couple hundred thousand dollars per unit from high to low bid. 1) Seagrave knows how much they need per unit to not lose their shirts on it and the other bidders are underestimating the cost of the warranty work or 2) Seagrave doesn't want the work and is trying to not get the bid.
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