Rachel's POV I was sitting at my desk, flipping through my notes from the dinner with David Crowe, when something he'd said kept coming back to me. We'd been talking about resort development, the challenges of finding reliable contractors and designers. And David had mentioned that the best projects came from competitive bidding processeswhere multiple companies pitched their proposals and you could choose the best combination of quality and value. That was it. That's what I needed to do for the ski resort. Instead of going out and trying to find individual companies for each aspect of the project, I should hold a bidding meeting. Invite representatives from different construction firms, architecture companies, design studios, equipment suppliers,everyone who'd be involved in building

