Kindly ignore the bid amount & time-line, it is just a placeholder to submit the proposal, as our estimate is higher than your set budget, so would you be flexible in it?
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Dear Sir,
I have read your Project Description and checked the attached word document, in which you have given modules & list of tasks/features, so apparently there are no technical hurdles, because most of the features are already done by our team in other website projects. However, I am concerned about your budget, which is lower than our estimated cost. So would you be flexible in your set budget or US $5,000 is your fixed budget? I totally understand that you want couple of video conference back & forth to make sure that both parties are on the same page in terms of requirements understanding, so that's surely important for both parties. In fact, I also insist our clients to have upfront technical meetings to avoid any kind of misunderstanding down the road.
Please let me know, if you want to review some of our past work as I don't want to bombard you with lot of links at first place.
Look forward to hearing from you and talking to you further thru' Freelancer message board.
Regards,
YK
LEADconcept