So you seriously reckon that it is better off to upset all the sponsors who could have done the work, at the risk of having one happy and the others possibly upset.
Sorry but I just can't fathom the logic there. Every businessman loses contracts and tenders, sometimes they get upset, other times they learn from them. But what is the worst is when you don't even get invited to participate, despite handing over your money to the club over a long length of time. If the club was that worried about upseting people put out a proper request, with a stipulation that any unsuccesful tenderer can have a feedback session and where the final price will be made available to those persons who missed out. Happens all the time in our industry, particularly with Government tenders, and the feedback process is very helpful.
Furthermore I don't know that it wasn't another sponsor that got the business. When I run into him again I'll ask.
Either way this one now former sponsor would have been OK with losing it, he is not OK with not being considered and as such is no longer a sponsor. If your reasoning is correct, and again I can't agree with the logic, then it has failed as they are a sponsor down.
Shark I don't know if it went out to tender or not. All I know is that these guys weren't even asked to quote. The club has their contact details whenever the time comes around to ask for money, so it wouldn't have been too hard to notify them about the work.
