I'll start. In a former life, we were bidding on an RFP that had to be hand-delivered to the purchasing office by 12:00pm. For various reasons, we ended up gett

I'll start. In a former life, we were bidding on an RFP that had to be hand-delivered to the purchasing office by 12:00pm. For various reasons, we ended up getting there a bit late at 11:50am - so 10 minutes to get to the office. The elevators were down. The office was on the 11th floor. We didn't make it, and even though we were just minutes late 'the rules are the rules'. The irony is that I know FOR SURE that we were cheaper and better than the company that ended up winning the project.