Recommending the "competition"
So, I want to hear everyone's opinions on recommending other firms for work.
Bit of information to start off. The company I work for teeters on the 50 employee mark, we are a surveying company with an engineering department. We work in 13 states and do basically any kind of work the falls under boundary survey, construction, and civil engineering, to include government contracts, DOT, site plans, layout, drone, scanning, ALTA contracts that span multiple states, NRCS, and obviously boundary. Which in turn means, we are hardly ever in a shortage of work.
With all that being said, obviously our overhead, and pricing is higher than the 1-15 person operations that are way more prevalent in our area. Which in turn means people are often shocked by our quotes. The only way we can do absolutely anything for under 1K, is if it's within an hour of one of our offices, and is something we have either done recently, or have a significant amount of work directly adjoining the potential project.
So, it is pretty standard that when someone balks at our quote we have a list of reputable surveyors that we will send them and tell them they are more than welcome to call anyone on this list and use them if they like their quotes more than ours.
I have heard other surveyors say they never recommend the "competition".