Pulling out before tender.

Touchingcloth · Feb 03, 2007 5:30 pm

Hi all,

Hope you're all enjoying the weather.

We certainly are...and as we've signed a tender with a major project builder, our future is now a little more certain...i hope.

We did however pay a 600 dollar deposit for soil test etc with another project builder, who we now don't want to build with and have now cancelled our tender aoppoint.

As we signed some drawings/price documents with them at our initial sales meeting, I was wondering can the project builder come back and invoice us for these drawings?

Thanks for any advice.

TC

Touchingcloth · Feb 06, 2007 12:40 pm

sorry to bump...

but does anyone know please?

Thanks in advance

TC

sneakersss · Feb 06, 2007 9:57 pm

Tough question, touchingcloth. But wouldn't that be dependant on the builder? And perhaps what it is exactly that you signed?

We also paid a $600 deposit with our builder in the early stages. From what we gathered this fee covered the soil tests and the preliminary drawings that were going to be ordered and presented to us at Tender. The $600 was then not refundable after the soil tests were performed.

If we were then happy with the Tender, we were supposed to sign the document and also pay a 3% deposit. This fee covers the layout drawings that is going to be ordered and put into the Contract. If we then backed out at this point we would've lost the 3% deposit.

So, our builder doesn't progress to the next stage until we have made some sort of payment. This could possibly be the same with yours but I'm not entirely sure as I am not familiar with who you are building with.

Touchingcloth · Feb 07, 2007 8:07 am

YSSIM

Tough question, touchingcloth. But wouldn't that be dependant on the builder? And perhaps what it is exactly that you signed?

We also paid a $600 deposit with our builder in the early stages. From what we gathered this fee covered the soil tests and the preliminary drawings that were going to be ordered and presented to us at Tender. The $600 was then not refundable after the soil tests were performed.

If we were then happy with the Tender, we were supposed to sign the document and also pay a 3% deposit. This fee covers the layout drawings that is going to be ordered and put into the Contract. If we then backed out at this point we would've lost the 3% deposit.

So, our builder doesn't progress to the next stage until we have made some sort of payment. This could possibly be the same with yours but I'm not entirely sure as I am not familiar with who you are building with.

Thanks for the reply YSSIM. I guess that you're right about it depending on the builder. I reckon they might 'try it on' and try to invoice me for work done on drawings etc. Oh well...we'll see