Those kick backs are highly illegal and many a company has been caught, only takes one disgruntled employee. Criminal charges as well as being disbarred from bidding would occur here. That's what organized crime does and they get nailed to the wall when caught, and its usually the low seniority or a pawn that is prosecuted, as I have seen from dealing with people that were involved with this in their company unbeknownst to me at the time, behind the scenes on jobs other than ones I ran. The internet certainly is helpful, I've found more than one person I have known in the business, that was prosecuted for these kinds of dealings and worse.
Lowest responsible bid, the labor side of it should be balanced and similar to other bids unless there is a gross mathematical error or oversight. Prevailing wages are stipulated in NYS on public work, and should equal union wages. All the heavy and highway outfits I know of locally do quite a bit of prevailing wage work, and the one in town, whom I know well, have been at it successfully since the 50's. They area company that will get the job done, and it goes right down to the lowest level employee, be late for work once, you are done. I had them on a $8M site job, a NYS agency project, 15 years ago, and though the conditions, mostly soil, was ideal, they expedited their work heavily enough it created a solid month of float time on the baseline schedule, which is huge and was extremely helpful later on in the project, and its what drove the project to substantial completion 1 month ahead of the deadline on the schedule. I believe they now have a union division, but they were mainly non union concentrating on prevailing wage work very successfully for a long time. Any construction manager would highly welcome this company, given how they perform.
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