Procurement Requirements, Pt. 1
The Bidding stuff
What are Procurement Requirements?
AIA document commonly used to provide instructions to bidders; also include the AIA document number
What is AIA A701-Instructions for Bidders?
This is the typical Agreement (or Contract) for construction
AIA A101: Contract between Owner & CM/GC for a Stipulated Sum
According to AIA A201, Drawings & Specs act as one document or one volume of information, and what is required by one, shall be as if required by the other.......name this formal relationship.
What is "Complementary" ?
This item breaks down the entire construction contract into smaller scopes of work based on Subcontractor scopes, or spec sections of work
What is the Schedule of Value
NOTE: SOV must be APPROVED by the A/E prior to use on the project (or applied to Applications for Payment).
A public announcement by the Owner of a construction project which is available for competitive bidding purposes
What is a Solicitation?
This item modifies, changes, adds to, or deletes from a commonly issued standard or stock document (like A701)
(Hint: This is not an Addendum)
What is a Supplement (or Supplemental Information)?
This is the type of contract referenced above (AIA 101)
Stipulated Sum (or Lump Sum)
1 contract price for 1 scope of work (or the entire project)
The Drawings, Specs & Addendum are "what" is to be built by the CM/GC......but AIA A201 describes the "How" the project is built.......name this "How" the project is built (as described by A201).
What is the "Means & Methods" for the project?
(All are the responsibility of the CM/GC).
This value (approx. 5-10%) is withheld by the Owner from each monthly Application for Payment.....why?
What is the Retainage?
The Owner withholds a small portion of the Payment (5 or 10%) so the CM/GC will complete all aspects of the Contract Requirements .......once the "Contract" is 100% complete, the Owner will return the withheld Retainage amount.
Advertisement for Bidders, Invitation to Bid, or Request for Proposals
What are typical titles of a Solicitation?
These are the most common items included in Available Information
What are the following:
1. Soil Borings Report
2. WBO: Work By the Owner
These are the 2 parts of the required Construction Bonds; also include the AIA document number
What are the Payment Bond & the Performance Bond? (AIA A312)
The CM/GC & the A/E are communicating throughout the entire construction project process.......name this Q & A process
Question:
RFI-Request for Information
Answer:
ASI-Architects Supplemental Information (or Instructions)
These are the typical dispositions for each & every Product Submittal processed for the construction project.....name all 4.
What are:
1. Reviewed w/ No Comments
2. Review w/ Comments (The "Comment" may be the product color selection)
3. Revise & Resubmit (Not good)
4. REJECTED (even worse)
NOTE: CM/GC barely have enough time to process the Submittals once......definitely not enough time & money to repeat the process again........
This is the typical value for the Bid Security
What is usually between 5-10% of the Bid value?
This is the common Bid Form used for public, competitive bid projects in the State of Indiana
What is Bid Form 96?
This is the minimum value of the Construction Bonds
The minimum value is the full value of the construction contract (or 100% of the construction contract value)....again, usually a minimum value.
This is a Temporary Change Order
What is the CCD: Construction Change Directive?
The original Bidding Documents (the Drawings, Specs & Addendum) are what is intended to be built by the CM/GC.......what is the title of the documents that describe how the project WAS actually built.....these include all modifications made during construction.
What are the Project Record Documents (sometimes incorrectly referred to as "As-Builts" )?
This is the most common Bid Security
What is the Bid Bond?
These are commonly included "Supplements to the Bid Form"
What are the following:
1. Acknowledgement to the Receipt of Addendum
2. Acknowledging the use of Liquidated Damages (beginning on the DOSC: Date of Substantial Completion)
3. Alternate Bids
4. Unit Price Bids
5. Subcontractors List
6. Requested Products to be used on the Project
7. Approval by the State of Indiana for public Bidding
8. Requirements for use of Minority Ownership companies, et al......
The General Conditions of the Construction Contract provide general information about how the construction contract is completed......name these 4 R's of the General Conditions.
The 4 R's of the General Conditions are as follows:
1. Rights
2. Roles
3. Responsibilities
4. Relationships
And how these affect each Contractual party....which includes the Owner, A/E, CM/GS & Subcontractors.
True or False
Every change or modification to the construction project requires a written Change Order? (Careful)
FALSE
Only changes in scope that affect either construction time (or the DOSC), or construction value ($$) of the contract, require a formal Change Order.
Titles of the follow Division 01 Spec sections:
01 20 00
01 30 00
01 40 00
01 50 00
01 70 00
What are as follows:
01 20 00: Price & Payment Procedures
01 30 00: Administrative Requirements
01 40 00: QA/QC Requirements
01 50 00: Temporary Facilities & Controls
01 70 00: Project Closeout Requirements