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Pre-Bid Documents and Estimates Can’t Be Hidden Behind the Curtain in Disputed Delay Claims

Best Practices Construction Law

The dispute is currently in the discovery phase and the City filed a motion to compel the contractor’s internal pre-bid documents and bid estimates, as well as the subcontractor’s base documents. ” My littlest chuckled.

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Does a BIM Requirement Stop You From Bidding?

Carol Hagen

You may want to ask your network connections, as many business who started in drafting and design have made substantial investments to offer BIM services to specialty contractors. Just because you have hired a BIM staffer shouldn’t mean you go out only bidding projects with BIM requirements.

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Top ten software for estimating and bidding

Construction Cost Estimating

Sage facilitates you to produce bids rapidly, precisely and positively with takeoff and cost databases. Sage Estimating also facilitates forecasting the labor, raw material and other overhead costs so that the contractors can arrange & deliver correct bids. Besides, customized reports can also be generated.

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New Sustainable Projects Exhibit in 2017 AIA Contract Documents

Green Building Law Update

Last week the American Institute of Architects released the 2017 edition of the A201 family of contract documents, including updated versions of the AIA’s documents developed for the design-bid-build delivery model. The previous version of the design-bid-build contract documents included a Sustainable Project version.

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You Can’t Treat Construction Claims Like Your Grandkids

Best Practices Construction Law

Interestingly, this contractor had performed other contracts at Fort Detrick involving deep foundations that happened to be design-bid-build contracts containing unit prices for excavation. As appellant concedes, design risk is transferred to contractors in the design-bid context, but not the risk of DSCs.

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Are Electronic Toll Collection Systems Subject to Competitive Bidding?

Best Practices Construction Law

Many are procuring those systems under state statutes that call for competitive bidding of all construction contracts. The question has come up, however, whether those government entities are required to award contracts after public bidding. In 1993, without public bidding, the authority entered into a $1.7 Peter Tufo , 652 N.E.2d

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Construction is NOT complex…. People are. Successful Construction Project Delivery Requirements

Job Order Contracting

Unit price detailed line time cost data, using locally researched information, provides the highest level of estimate reliability. I’d like to learn more… ACCURATELY Forecast Risk Centralizing Program Management, Contract Management, Proposal/Bid Management, Project Management, Work Order Management, Document Management, Team Management… (..)