16 THE TENDERThe evening after Michael had told them that his brothers had decided to set up a new version of their father's old company in order to make an attempt at winning the contract, Roger told him the contract details and handed him a copy to give to his brothers
“It's all pretty standard stuff”, he said. “Each company will be tendering on the assumption that the site will be not more than twenty-five kilometres from their home office, neither London nor Birmingham weighting will apply at this stage, and the tender date is August 15th and the closing time is midday. Email tenders will be accepted, but we must receive a hard copy before five pm on the sixteenth. The successful tender will be the one closest to the average of the three bids, and if there is a tie, the lower price wi
