Before the bid package goes out

Anyone who has put a bid package together knows that last day. Months of work by several people, a fixed date, and all that's left is reading every file against every other file. What slips through comes back as bidder questions, an addendum, or a change order.

One case on our Try page: a bid package the week before advertisement. Yesper read it all and said no: 5 bid items with no governing specification, 7 referenced plan sheets not in the package, and an internal reviewer note still in the special provisions.

The missing specs and sheets turn up on your desk before the date, not in bidder questions after it, and the reviewer note never reaches a bidder. Same for the rest of the Try page: a scope matrix for a bid invitation, tenders compared at full scope, a review protocol for a design package.

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