It seems a week doesn't go by in the newspaper where the Milwaukee Public School district is crying about budget shortfalls. My company recently bid on a large MPS job and were awarded the job as low bidders. A couple days later however we were informed that we filled out the bid form incorrectly. We basically checked one box wrong. They did not allow us the chance to correct our mistake and awarded the job to the second lowest bidder. The only thing is, they made the exact same mistake. So they moved on to the third lowest bidder and awarded them the job. Their quote was a full $50,000 higher than ours. So basically the school district is throwing away $50k on what amounts to an honest typo. Just think about what they could buy with that money. What a waste.