Same template, different contract

Same owner, same template, bids closing back to back. You read the first front end properly and skim the rest. The lines that differ are the expensive ones: a daily rate, when a milestone counts, whether the rate schedule is scored. Usually you find out after award.

One case on our Try page: three front ends from one Town. Yesper compared them provision by provision. 12 of 208 differ in substance, including $2,500 a day in liquidated damages on an intermediate contract time, more than twice the rate on the job next door.

You price each job on its own terms before bid day. The question to the owner goes in before questions close, not after award. Same for the rest of the Try page: a go/no-go on a bid, a scope matrix for a bid invitation, a risk map for the contract.

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