Here is my observation, although I never really saw it like this until about 2 years or so ago. Do you know of any large building, hospital, airport, bridge, highway, or shopping mall that was built using T+M for a basis of payment? What do you think the owners of those projects would say if the contractors came to them and said that building those above items contained too many unknowns and variables, such that it was too risky to build those projects unless they paid T+M. Heck no, they bid them and build the risk into the bid. And small jobs aren't really any different. We just need to START providing for those contingency's in all our bids, and not fall all over each other trying to lower the bids to beat the other guy's bid. Big jobs have good profit built in for the company, small jobs should too.