Miss Li, who was thin in stature, propped herself up on the table with her hands and struggled to get up from her seat. Her legs were so weak that she couldn't do it, and her hands were shaking as she held the bidding papers.

As a representative of China State Construction Company, she will read the tender at the tender meeting for the Perfume Galaxy Hotel project.

She and two of her other colleagues, the three technicians, have been busy in Xiangzhou for a month working on this document. Of the three, she was the only one who could speak Mandarin. Although she only speaks Guizhou Mandarin. And the Guizhou dialect spoken by her two male colleagues is incomprehensible to the people of Xiangzhou.

Their main competitor is the provincial construction company. At this moment, the representatives of the provincial construction company talked and laughed freely, looking determined to win.

They already had a construction site under construction in Xiangzhou. One cow is released, and two cows are also released. For them, it's just an extra cow.

There were also two representatives of the urban construction company at the scene, who showed a relaxed and restrained attitude. They have no hope, only an attitude of learning, and naturally there is no pressure.

They were supposed to be the protagonists of this tender. Or that there is no need for bidding at all, and the project should be done by them. Their Director Luo once patted their chests with them, and there was no problem. But his arm couldn't twist his thigh, and in the end, Director Luo still failed to withstand the pressure of the city, and agreed to the request for public bidding for Party A's project against his will.

Otherwise, there would have been no bidding at all.

Two months ago, after the news of the hotel project symposium was reported, a thief-eyed and obscene person came to Li Fei, claiming to be a representative of a construction company in a neighboring province.

Despite the disgust in his heart, Li Fei still patiently received the other party. Ask about the situation of the other party's unit, and the person who comes does not know anything. just repeatedly hinted to Li Fei: There are benefits after the fact. He also said that the leader of this city was his relative.

He didn't know that Li Fei belonged to another category, so he could talk to him a few more words if he didn't mention these messy things; As soon as he mentioned these messy things, Li Fei lost his appetite.

You told this man to go! Li Fei said to He Wenrui. After saying that, he didn't say hello, he got up first and walked away.

Looking at the back of Li Fei walking away, the man asked blankly, what did your manager say just now?

He Wenrui said, he told you where to play yesterday, where to play today.

I didn't get it. The man said.

He told you to go away! You understand, right? He Wenrui said loudly.

The man got up and wanted to say something to He Wenrui. He Wenrui waved his hand in disgust, not listening to his ramblings.

This incident made Li Fei more vigilant: the hotel project must find a powerful construction company to do it, and no one will be allowed to get it.

Several construction companies that have been registered are inviting Party A to visit the door. Li Fei decided to inspect China State Construction Company first. Ask the address, only to know that it is in Guiyang.

It's too far!

It is possible to fly by plane. Lao Guan, a representative of China State Construction Corporation, said.

Li Fei said: We are only invited to inspect the site, and we are not responsible for the cost and do not make any promises. If you agree, you go, if you don't, you won't go.

Lao Guan said two words unequivocally: agree. Then he added four words cheerfully: No problem!

For the sake of prudence, Li Feite brought Liu Gong from the Design Institute. He doesn't know technology and has to find a technical crutch.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, when I arrived in Guiyang, Lao Guan brought a van to pick up the station. On the phone, Li Fei specified that he wanted to stay in the best hotel in Guiyang, saying that it was an inspection by the way. Lao Guan also agreed at that time, no problem. But after arriving in Guiyang, Lao Guan's statement changed.

Lao Guan said that the hotel had a large conference, and it was all full. In that case, there is no other way to find it. Strangely, after that, I searched for many hotels and restaurants, all of which were full. And Lao Guan always asked the guests to stay in the car first, and he and the driver went to investigate, and when they came back, they always said that they were full

He Wenrui blamed Lao Guan for not being able to do things and not arranging accommodation in advance. Li Fei didn't say anything, and he was also very angry in his heart. Liu Gong said, forget it, it's already like this, and it's useless to say that he is.

Until this point, none of the three of them had suspected anything strange about this. I just think that Lao Gao is an honest man and can't do things.

The car walked around the streets for more than an hour, but could not find a place to stay. Lao Guan offered to live in his house. Said that the conditions at home are okay and close to the company.

There was no way, he couldn't spend the night in the car, Li Fei had to agree to stay overnight.

Lao Gao's family has already prepared a bed. Liu Gong lived alone in a small room, and Li Fei and He Wenrui slept on a large bed improvised in the living room. One bed, two quilts. Li Fei inspected the covers, but fortunately, the covers were still clean.

At this time, it was past two o'clock in the morning, and the person was so tired that he couldn't care so much about it, so he fell asleep.

I woke up at ten o'clock the next morning. Lao Guan has already gone on a trip to the company and just came back. Li Fei noticed that Lao Guan was unusual, and suddenly lost his spirit.

Li Fei felt that something was wrong. told Liu Gong and He Wenrui their thoughts, and they also felt the same way. The atmosphere became a little eerie.

Seeing the manager of Laoguan Company, Li Fei deliberately put forward more specific conditions such as project quality, fees and fees, and project advances. In order to test the truth of the other party.

The manager of the company discussed with them, discussed and went, calculated and bargained. Although it is not satisfying, it makes people feel at ease. It can be seen that China State Construction Company is still serious.

In the afternoon, we went to inspect the construction site. It was still the same van, and it took nearly half an hour. The construction site is an office building under construction in the col. A few people put on hard hats and walked upstairs and downstairs for a while. Li Fei asked Liu Gong: How do you feel?

Liu Gong said yes. Fully equipped; Good quality; On-site management is orderly.

The site supervisor is in his fifties. Bald. The surname is Hong. At first glance, it is easy to think of the deputy commander many years ago. Dinner was served in an outside restaurant. Lao Hong can drink. Yes. I can tell that he has a good set of construction management.

After eating, Lao Hong asked people to pack the leftovers and said that they would be brought to the little brothers on the construction site for supper. He said that his men were all young men who died in their work. It's another all-nighter tonight.

Li Fei and the three of them exchanged views in private, and unanimously agreed that this person would be required to do their own projects. It is never allowed to steal beams and change columns.

Li Fei originally planned to stay at Lao Guan's house for one night, but Lao Guan didn't mention the transfer to the hotel. and even arranged meals at his house.

Lao Guan's hometown is not far from Xiangzhou City, and although the family has changed their accents, they treat Li Fei and the three of them very kindly, and always say that they are from their hometown. It made it difficult for Li Fei to open his mouth and move out.

But Li Fei always felt that something was wrong in his heart. This is not Lao Guan's private matter, why do you want to live in his house? Li Fei repeatedly stated to Lao Guan that it must be Lao Hong's team to do his own project. The first installment can only be paid after the construction machinery and team enter the site.

Lao Guan just nodded. But it's not crisp.

Li Fei said, Lao Guan, if you have anything, you must explain it to us clearly. Don't hide it from us.

Lao Guan sighed and finally revealed the truth.

He was originally the manager of a labor service company under China State Construction Corporation. Originally, he planned to take over the Perfume Galaxy Hotel project in the name of the company and pull a group of people to do it in his hometown. Who knew that Li Fei insisted on the company's regular construction team.

The company considered running one or two thousand kilometers and only doing the Xiangzhou project, which was definitely a loss-making business. Machinery transportation and personnel travel expenses alone cost hundreds of thousands of yuan. If the whole company makes a strategic shift, it will be difficult to reach an internal consensus for a while.

Lao Guan was full of sorrow: The matter has come to this point, I hope that Manager Li will negotiate with our company well, and strive to facilitate this matter according to your requirements. Otherwise, the company will not cover the cost of my project to win your project.

After two days, all kinds of doubts have finally been answered.

Li Fei and his entourage went to meet the manager of Laoguan Company again, and the manager of the company talked about their hardships.

Their company was originally in Hubei many years ago, and later supported the construction of the third line and moved to Guizhou. Although more than 20 years have passed, many employees still have the same Hubei complex. I always hope to go back one day. In addition, Guizhou is relatively backward, the construction market is sluggish, local protectionism is prevalent, and central enterprises are crowded out everywhere. Hearing that the Three Gorges Project was launched, the company was eager to try. However, it is not easy to make a real strategic shift. Family, children, housing, schooling, a lot of problems that are difficult to solve.

The other party opened his mind, which made Li Fei and the three of them very moved. The two parties entered into a heart-to-heart talk and analyzed the prospects of the construction market in Xiangzhou and Hubei together. In order to pull this team over, Li Fei said all the encouraging words.

In the end, the two parties reached an agreement, and Party B agreed to meet the conditions proposed by Party A; Party A agrees that if Party B participates in the bidding, Party B will be their first choice.

Miss Li and her entourage were led by Lao Hong of China State Construction Company. Luo Guohua, director of the Municipal Construction Bureau, wanted to invite them to dinner. This made Lao Hong panic. It also made Li Fei puzzled.

Previously, Luo Guohua said many times that the team came in unexpectedly. Now I want to invite people to dinner, which is obviously a Hongmen banquet. Lao Hong didn't want to go, but he couldn't help but go.

Lao Hong drank too much at night, and it was Miss Li and the three of them who helped him back.

During the banquet, Director Luo staged a mourning plan. Xiang Lao Hong and they vomited bitter water: Xiangzhou is the same as Guizhou, and the construction market is also a situation of more monks and less porridge. Construction companies in the city are not competitive, and as long as they allow construction teams from other places to come in, local companies will be in a more difficult situation.

As the competent unit, the Construction and Engineering Bureau should improve the local construction level on the one hand; On the other hand, it is necessary to ensure that the subordinate construction enterprises have food.

It's hard!

The Construction Engineering Bureau has to be both an athlete and a referee, is this system not difficult for Lao Luo?

Comprehension – Understanding. Lao Hongtou kept nodding his head and was dizzy.

Long live understanding! Lao Luo said, please report the situation in Xiangzhou to the leaders of your company, and ask them to give up the bidding for the Perfume Galaxy Hotel project. Here, cheers!

Lao Hong couldn't answer, so he could only apologize with wine.

The next day, Luo Guohua asked Lu Shiping and Li Fei to go to the construction site to talk. Due to the pressure from the city, Luo Guohua's attitude has changed greatly. is no longer domineering and oppressive with power. Instead, discuss with the two of them in an equal, consultative tone.

Luo Guohua understands that only by persuading these two people can he get a salary from the bottom of the kettle and reduce the pressure on him in the city.

He poured out the bitter water that he had spit out to Lao Hong to Lu Shiping and the others again, causing the two to almost disarm and surrender. When Luo Guohua felt that victory was in sight, the two suddenly sobered up and stubbornly guarded the bottom line of public bidding.

We are not excluding local construction companies, we are just going to open the tender and welcome local companies to participate in the bidding. So that Luo Guohua could not refuse.

And Luo Guohua understands better than anyone else that as long as it is an open bidding, there will be no drama of a local company. Sheep where is the opponent of the wolf.

Director Luo, you should also let your team go out. Li Fei said.

Luo Guohua said, do you think we don't want to go out? It's the same everywhere now, and protectionism is rampant. It is difficult for you to enter other people's markets, and even if you get the project, it is a tricky project with harsh conditions, large risks and small returns.

During this time, Luo Guohua's stomach hurt, so he bought him two helmets to eat.

This made Li Fei feel compassion: if he was in his position, maybe he would do the same as him.

In order to block the construction team in the field, Luo Guohua did his best. He failed to convince the representative of Party A. failed to stop the holding of this public bidding meeting.

At this moment, the two men put the heavy responsibility of reading the tender to the weak woman. After all kinds of hardships and twists and turns, I finally survived to the last moment. If it fails, how can you explain it to the company? The responsibility is so great, how can Miss Li's hands not tremble.

As a result, China State Construction Company narrowly defeated the Provincial Construction Company by 1.5 points. (Everyone understands that this result is related to Party A's inclination)

The two men and one woman of Zhongjian suddenly burst into tears and hugged each other and cried.

The representative of the provincial construction company was a little angry, and immediately left, refusing to stay and eat together.

Li Fei leaned over beside their car and said words of explanation and comfort. He said that he would be willing to cooperate with them as long as he had the opportunity in the future.

However, it was this hypocritical politeness that laid the groundwork for later changes.

After China State Construction Company won the bid, Lao Hong brought three young people to make pre-construction preparations.

A few days later, Lao Hong will return to Guizhou and hand over the scene to Yan Gong. Yan Gong is good at drinking, Lao Hong asked Li Fei to help supervise him and he was not allowed to drink in the class. This made Li Fei more convinced of Lao Hong.

The Municipal Construction Bureau came to urge several times to ask China State Construction Company to go through the entry procedures as soon as possible. However, China State Construction Company was very slow to act, only saying that it coincided with the annual inspection of local licenses, and the relevant certificates could not be issued.

This made Li Fei feel very unsure, and he suspected that there was something wrong with it.

It took almost a month for CSCEC to get the relevant certificates. I went through the formalities at the Municipal Construction and Engineering Bureau, but I was stuck when I transferred it to the Regional Construction and Engineering Bureau for approval.

China State Construction Company looked for acquaintances in the area to find out the reason, only to know that the Urban Construction Bureau was the obstruction and borrowed a knife to kill people.

Through dredging, I barely passed this level. In the end, there was a pass left in the province, and the representative of China State Construction Company said that the province had a relationship and there was no big problem in doing things.

Li Fei was very pleased, good things were grinding, and finally the day when the clouds cleared and the fog cleared.

One day, Yan Gong suddenly came to Li Fei and said that Guiyang was in an emergency and informed them to return quickly. The reason is unknown.

This news made Li Fei confused. Under normal circumstances, Party B must communicate with Party A first. Li Fei called Lao Hong in the middle of the night, and Lao Hong said that the company was ready to give up the Perfume Galaxy Hotel project.

It turned out that when Li Fei and his entourage went to Guiyang, they only saw the business manager of China State Construction Company. At that time, the top leader was studying outside, and when he came back, he was not satisfied with the project promised by the business manager, and he always wanted to find a reason to reject the contract. The procrastination in handling affairs during this period is precisely the result of internal disagreements.

After winning the bid, the issue of equipment and personnel entering the site was put on the agenda, and hundreds of tons of formwork steel frame alone were required. It's all about money. When he hesitated, he sent back the news that things were not going well in Xiangzhou, which eventually led to the withdrawal of troops.

Li Fei's heart suddenly became a mess. In Xiangzhou proverb, it is a fall on the threshold, and the two are not real.

According to the relevant provisions of the bidding, if the first winning bidder withdraws, it shall be replaced by the second winning bidder. In other words, the Perfume Galaxy Hotel project should now be undertaken by the provincial construction company.

However, the provincial construction company failed in the last bid, and the anger is still not gone. It's hard to say that there's still interest in the Perfume Galaxy project. Even if there is, the situation of Party A and Party B is compared, and Party A is currently in a passive position.

Before the bidding, Party B will comply with all the conditions proposed by Party A in order to strive for Party A's project. Now in turn, Party A begs Party B, and the fool will not talk about conditions.

Li Fei discussed with Lu Shiping, blocked the news, and Li Fei took He Wenrui to the provincial construction company to negotiate.