Never Say ‘No’

The Only Ones Not Outsourced

“Chris and I are the only ones who didn’t get outsourced,” points out Adams—but that’s not to say that the college didn’t try. The shop’s diversity proved to be its best armor, however, when it came time to compare prices.

“Our shop has been built up so big that other companies didn’t even want to bid on it. One did bid partially on the work, and another bid completely, but the price was so high”—a cost of $225,000 more—“that it wouldn’t benefit the school at all.”