Proposal is in! It's Party Time!

So I finally finished the report... And by finished I mean I stayed at work until 9 printing and binding and scanning and packaging and sealing and carrying.



And so amidst the fears of pandemonium to the happening today because "Feel It, WC day is Finally Here" I got up far too early, Down some coffee and drove through to the Report Submission Centre to make sure there would be absolutely no reason to not be able to hand in.


(My bid manager had some smarmy comments how I should have been finalising the day before yesterday to be printing yesterday morning and delivering yesterday afternoon - While is kinda pointless to say at 5pm when I can do nothing but continue printing and binding and sealing and scanning - I think his speech was more about asserting that he is a better Engineer - well Duuuh He has 20 years more experience at it)


Funny enough I actually coped much much better with this Proposal than the previous onces - this is evidenced by the lack of blog posts lamenting my sad sorry work life while sitting at work at 10pm. And I feel good about the package I am handing in - I am a little scared that I have forgotten something :/ I grasp the idea that this bid in particular is actually pretty important.


The other thing worrying me is that my department manager sent me a BEE company to include as a subcontractor. However the aformention Bid Manger suggested that their skill set is so similar to ours that by including them we would be actually risking loosing business to them at a later stage. So they were left out. My department head followed this up with me yesterday as I was printing docs and was uumm... Noticibly irked that the BEE company was not included. (I kinda sorta effectively ignored my BIG Boss's instructions on the advice of my Medium big Boss)


Question is, Would it have been the moral thing to do to include the company as a BEE company to give some little guys a leg up into the market with the potential loss of business to the company? Which is more important, doing the kind generous thing or doing what is better for maintaining the competitive edge and the money coming in?


Anyway back to the original story. I arrive here nice and early and it seems that my proposal package won't fit into the submission postbox so I have to wait until the office opens in an hours time. Which means Ill be leaving here and driving through the centre of town in peak morning traffic... But at least my bid will be in right?