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Cheapest on the biggest item. Finished last.
FDOT contract E53F9 · Marion County · 4 bidders · May 2026
REAL TAB
BIDDERTOTAL BIDVS LOW
American Lighting & SignalizationWON$1,214,475100%
Chinchor Electric$1,329,406109%
Signal Technology & Installation$1,533,790126%
New Florida Industrial Electric$1,686,491139%
$219,356What three line items cost themNew Florida bid the lowest price of anyone on signal cable, the biggest item in the contract, then gave it all back on splice boxes, signals and detectors.

Real contract. Every figure taken from the tabulation the Florida DOT published on May 14, 2026, which lists every bidder's unit price on every pay item.

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02

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04

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The gap

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What most bidders know
  • An award notice with one name on it
  • A rumor about the price
  • A guess at how the evaluators scored
  • No read on whether the next one is worth bidding
What subscribers know
  • Every bidder and every price on the tab
  • The score breakdown behind the decision
  • The number it would have taken to win*
  • Which contracts come up next, and who holds them
* How we work out what it would have taken

Sealed price bids. The agency publishes every number, so the answer is the winning figure. The useful work is comparing your price against the whole field rather than against the winner alone.

Unit price contracts.Agencies like the Florida DOT publish every bidder's price on every pay item, so we compare line by line. On the contract above, New Florida Industrial Electric was the cheapest of four on signal cable, the largest item, then lost $117,599 on traffic signals, $64,691 on splice boxes and $37,066 on detector removals. That is a fixable pricing problem, and it is only visible item by item.

Scored proposals. Most agencies publish their price formula in the solicitation. The common one is:

price score = (lowest price ÷ your price) × maximum price points

With the technical scores published too, the crossover is algebra. Where an award went to a higher-priced bidder at $684,000 with 54.2 technical points and second place bid $617,500 with 47.8, solving 47.8 + 40 = 54.2 + (P ÷ 684,000) × 40 gives P = $574,560. Bid below that and the award flips. We show this arithmetic in every teardown so you can check it against the agency's own documents.

Where we can't calculate it:when an agency has not published the technical scores, we can't compute the crossover until our records request comes back. We say which case applies rather than guessing.

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