January 2014

According to a recent report in USA Today, most of the largest companies in the US are self-insured.  They cover their employee’s claims while insurance companies help administer the plans.  Starting in 2014, those businesses that are fully-insured, as opposed to self-insured, will have to pay a tax that is expected to add about 2% […]

It has been slow so long we didn’t think it would ever pick up.  Get ready for things to change.  McGraw Hill Construction is forecasting that contract activity in the Southeast region will achieve an across the board increase within each of its broad construction categories: Nonresidential, residential. and nonbuilding.  The acceleration is expected to

Since the late 1990’s the Veteran’s Administration has been using reverse auctions as a contracting process to promote competition by having the agency buyer solicit bids from multiple sellers.  This is different from a standard auction where a seller solicits bids from multiple buyers.  In a reverse auction, you keep lowering and lowering your price