Best Practices Construction Law
MAY 7, 2014
The issue raises an important question: What should a contractor do during negotiations to allow for some “bargaining room” so as to avoid any appearance of filing a false claim? A contractor must know the terms of the contract and the contract plans in great detail. Be prepared.
HardHatChat
JUNE 23, 2015
Reason 2 – “No” can also come up during the bidding process, particularly when there are unknown commercial construction costs that simply can’t be estimated. For one recent bid, the client was ready to award us the project, but wanted to lock in the contract using an estimated allowance as the final price.
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Best Practices Construction Law
MAY 20, 2016
When a client asks me about a particular contract provision and why it is “unfair” or “uneven”, we began a discussion about risk allocation. You see, the contract is used to shift the various risks on the project to the party most appropriate to handle it. What about the risk of escalation in material costs?
Civil Lead
APRIL 22, 2020
When we are planning to construct a building or house the first question comes in our mind is we have to give a material contractor or labour contract. Whereas in the material contract all materials and labour required for the construction are supplied by the contractor. While the contractor may or may not do that.
Job Order Contracting
JULY 12, 2018
Sampling Error in the CPI The CPI is a statistical estimate that is subject to sampling error because it is based upon a sample of retail prices and not the complete universe of all prices. BLS calculates and publishes estimates of the 1-month, 2-month, 6-month, and 12-month percent change standard errors annually for the CPI-U.
Construction Marketing Ideas
OCTOBER 4, 2012
Mary from St Paul says; “My husband and I are wanting to redo our bath so we contacted three contractors and received 2 estimates and they are both different. We like the contractor with the highest bid best because he had detailed all the fixtures we wanted and his estimate was very detailed in general. Why are the bids so different?
Contractor Bookkeeping
JUNE 5, 2013
Purchase Orders / Sales Orders / Inventory / Class Tracking / Enabled Online Features / except Payroll and Merchant Services (those cost money) / Sync’d with Estimating Software – And QuickBooks advertisements make it is easy and quick too! "I I don’t have to double key anything into my QuickBooks.". Cost of Services A Contractor''s Story.
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