Re: Bidding a first contract?

[John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

> <<My gut feeling is that the size of the documention 
> <<that you write will be approximately 50-75 percent 
> <<of the size of these samples.  
> <<Our product has a somewhat lesser degree of 
> <<configurability.>>
 
> Don't accept vague claims. As noted above, you need to pin down

Has anyonme ever received a requst to submit their lowest price where
they said that what you will be writing will be longer and more
complex?

Yet, for some reason, that is often the result. 

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

"What do we want? More than 
anybody else has."
             Steve Ballmer

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