Each period the company is offered a number of jobs for which a bid is invited.

The jobs were identified by the marketing department in the previous period depending upon the sectors into which the marketing effort was directed.

There are two types of jobs that can be bid for :-

• Build Only, where the client has already had the design produced, and the contractor is only responsible for the build
• Design and Build, where the contractor has responsibility for both the design and the build

In both cases it is assumed that the estimators have produced an accurate assessment of the costs to be incurred in completing the job, along with planned labour levels for each period of the planned duration of the job.