Lawyers - Is this illegal?

[Bullitt207]

I'll try to keep this short.

I was hired to remove sand, But I could not remove it until the company who was providing the backfill was ready. They would not give the customer a firm date when they would provide the backfill and were vague if they could meet the deadline. This went on for about three weeks.

The backfill was about $30,000.00 of material. So I started making calls to bid on this portion of the job on a Thursday. The supplier I found who could do the job the best stalled me until Monday, but what I did not know is they were tied in with the original supplier. They gave the original supplier my name and the sqft I was using to bid job. This gave my competitor the chance to firm up the deal before I could bid the job.

Is it legal for a vendor to give out info on me if they know I am bidding the same job as one of there other customers?

 

[FordSVTFan]

I'll try to keep this short.

I was hired to remove sand, But I could not remove it until the company who was providing the backfill was ready. They would not give the customer a firm date when they would provide the backfill and were vague if they could meet the deadline. This went on for about three weeks.

The backfill was about $30,000.00 of material. So I started making calls to bid on this portion of the job on a Thursday. The supplier I found who could do the job the best stalled me until Monday, but what I did not know is they were tied in with the original supplier. They gave the original supplier my name and the sqft I was using to bid job. This gave my competitor the chance to firm up the deal before I could bid the job.

Is it legal for a vendor to give out info on me if they know I am bidding the same job as one of there other customers?

While it is a shitty thing to do, it is not illegal. If you have a written agreement that states the information is confidential you may have a civil claim for breach of contract.

 

[N2DAMYSTIC]

I'd tell the person that hired you. May be too late but I would want to know if something like this was going on with one of my jobs.

 

[jerrad]

That shit goes on constantly in the oil field. My company no longer does verbal quotes, only written for this reason exactly. One of our salesman was talking to a potential customer on the phone and the customer had one of our competators in the room with him. He had our salesman on speaker and trying to get a price out of him.

That shit doesn't go down well around here.

 

[Bullitt207]

Thanks for the info guys.