--- title: U.S. Pavement Services Blog | Leading Pavement & Concrete Service Provider | Project Management (2) description: Project Management | (2) --- Call 1-800-PAVEMENT [![US Pavement](https://blog.uspavement.com/hs-fs/hubfs/USPavement/us-pavement.png?width=300&height=106&name=us-pavement.png "US Pavement")](http://www.uspavement.com/) Call 1-800-PAVEMENT [ Need a Quote? ](http://www.uspavement.com/estimates/estimates-business) # Blog ## [Getting What You Paid For](https://blog.uspavement.com/getting-what-you-paid-for) Posted by [Blake Kelly](https://blog.uspavement.com/author/blake-kelly) on 1/17/18 4:24 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.uspavement.com/hubfs/Project%20Management.jpg) ](https://blog.uspavement.com/getting-what-you-paid-for) #### **Ensuring successful projects by incorporating a "trust but verify" process into your procurement practices** We all have budgets and goals for each project that we manage which requires us to look intimately at the partners we work with. The criteria needed to properly vet a proposal or compare apples to apples requires the customer to really dial into what’s in it for them. Contractor selection can be a touchy subject, but a key to success is to trust but verify. 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If your Fortune 500 customer’s CEO visited your work-site, would you be ready? Would he or she be satisfied with you and your project? Since mid-2016, our National Project Management team has been intensely training around this concept, initially developed by Blake Kelly, our Director of National Accounts. But then we started to realize that it doesn’t stop with our customer’s CEO. What about our own CEO? [Read More](https://blog.uspavement.com/ceo-ready-culture) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.uspavement.com/ceo-ready-culture#comments-listing) Topics: [News](https://blog.uspavement.com/topic/news), [Articles](https://blog.uspavement.com/topic/articles), [Pavement](https://blog.uspavement.com/topic/pavement), [National](https://blog.uspavement.com/topic/national), [Customer Service](https://blog.uspavement.com/topic/customer-service), [Project Management](https://blog.uspavement.com/topic/project-management), [Culture](https://blog.uspavement.com/topic/culture), [CEO Ready](https://blog.uspavement.com/topic/ceo-ready) ## [Top of the 10th or Bottom of the 7th: Five Key Factors to Completing Fall Pavement Projects](https://blog.uspavement.com/five-key-factors-to-completing-fall-pavement-projects) Posted by [Andrew Musto](https://blog.uspavement.com/author/andrew-musto) on 10/27/17 10:05 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.uspavement.com/hubfs/banner%20scorecard.png) ](https://blog.uspavement.com/five-key-factors-to-completing-fall-pavement-projects)   As the clock ticks on the seasonal pavement business, many companies are either scrambling to fit in last-minute projects or prematurely deciding to postpone work “to the spring”. But when has the clock expired on the season? Are we in the top of the 10th or the bottom of the 7th?  The short answer: We have time! Here are five important factors to consider and gauge just how much time we have for your pavement projects. 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