Bidding and Negotiation
Allowance for unexpected expenses
What is contingency?
A civil wrong
What is a tort?
Unsecured financing offered by suppliers, vendors, and other professionals that may offer subconsulting services
What is trade credit?
Landscape architect may not comment on these - they are for the contractor to determine.
What is means and methods?
"Consumers are a new source of competence."
What is the expert citizen?
Uses prequalification stage to establish a "shortlist"
Two-stage Bidding
Lawsuit pending
What is lis pendens?
A financial report that shows revenue, expenses, gains, and losses over a set period of time.
What is an income statement?
Drawing provided by fabricator
What is shop drawing?
Democratic-minded process aiming to offer equial input for all stakeholders with an emphasis on users
What is participatory design?
When suppliers or contractors conspire with government officials to secure the contract
What is collusion?
A (usually) binding process for settling disputes outside of traditional court process
What is arbitration?
A comprehensive financial statement that shows a "snapspot" of company's financial standing- includings assets, liabilities, and shareholder equity.
What is a balance sheet?
Typical first step of site preparation
What is protection of vegetation?
the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worshop, and age that affect a wide rangeof health and quality-of-life outcomes and risks
what is social determinant of health?
A guarantee that protects owner from liens if prime contractor does not pay subs or suppliers
What is payment bond?
A person cannot deny or contradict a statement previously represented as the truth
What is estoppel?
Money owed to a business for goods or services delivered that has not been paid for yet
What is accounts receivable?
Information about products to be used that must be approved before use
What is a submittal?
From journal article, classic guide for articulating who has power when important decisions are being made
What is Arnstein's Ladder?
Prohibits agreements among competitors to fix prices or rig bids
What is the 1890 Sherman Act?
A hazard to children that a landowner should have anticipated
What is an attractive nuisance?
The Five 'C's of Credit
What is character, capacity, collateral, capital, and conditions?
Predetermined sum amount of damages to be paid to owner if contractor fails to complete work within certain time frame
What is liquidated damages?
Health is affected by interaction between the individual, the community, and the physical/social, and political environments
What is the social ecological model of health?