(1) Companies in the market for consultants can now use Web exchanges to post REPs (request for proposals) and then sit back while the contenders prepare responses and underbid one another.

(2) To get their initial clients, they had to underbid and offer lower prices.

(3) We can be underbid by smaller contractors on little jobs.

(4) He's talking about American workers being underbid in the global labor market.

(5) Their whole business model is about bringing in inexpensive foreign labor so they can underbid their rivals.

(6) The question, of course, is whether the cost overruns stem from unforeseen problems that crop up over the course of a project or whether projects are routinely underbid .

(7) In order to make their bid more attractive the new contractors must underbid each other.

(8) Small manufacturers tend to be terrified of losing an order, so they dramatically underbid .

(9) This worsens the trade deficit and helps these companies underbid rivals.

(10) They were underbid by competitors who charged less

(11) They manage to provide a certain product range at a competitive price - so competitive that individual local traders find impossible to underbid .

(12) They underbid , over-promised and they didn't deliver.

(13) ÔÇÿDesperate contractors will underbid labor, safety and management costs just to keep their crews busy,ÔÇÖ he says.

(14) We hereby assume that he only sells his coats for the same price as his competitors, and does not take advantage of these economies to underbid them.

(15) Companies with poor safety records may be able to underbid companies that invest in safety but only in the short term.

(16) Apparently, the roofing contractor had underbid the project and was saving money by leaving gaps between the insulation boards, thus reducing the amount of material that had to be purchased.

(17) The contractor had significantly underbid the job.

(18) The audience roared because they thought I underbid .

(19) The successful bidder obtains his lot at one increment above the underbidder .

(20) Many framers often find themselves underbidding themselves to keep a piece of work in the shop for framing.