You cannot read
every package.
You sign off on numbers built by people reading different documents to different depths. Halozen gives every package the same pass, cited to source, before the price is locked.
pages of specifications in one data center bid package.
Each one can carry an obligation the number has to cover, and nobody on a bid team reads them all twice.
Source: DFW Data Center 1Public bid package
None of these look like
a problem on the day.
Your team isn't short on judgment. It's short on time.
Supplementary conditions rewrote the payment terms on page twelve. It read like the form your team has priced for ten years, so nobody read it twice.
Read moreHundreds of requirements never say who owes them. Each is a question for before award, not after.
Read moreTwo estimators, the same specification, two different readings. You cannot tell from the number which one you got.
One obligation.
One decision.
Every finding cited to document, section and page, so your estimator can check the work rather than trust it.
- Requirement
- Pay $2,500.00 per Day for each Day Substantial Completion is not achieved
- Source
- Special Provisions §1.0 B · Page SP-2View source
- Type
- Liquidated damages · Schedule
- Commercial impact
- $2,500 for every day past Substantial Completion
- Status
- Unreviewed
- Next action
- Price it, qualify it or carry it
If Contractor fails to achieve Substantial Completion of the Work on or before the Substantial Completion Date, Contractor must pay $2,500.00 per Day for each Day that Contractor fails to achieve Substantial Completion.
The same pass on every package.
- 01Send the bid package.
The contract, conditions, specifications, addenda and drawings, as you received them.
- 02Every obligation, cited.
What each clause commits you to, who owes it, and where the package rewrites the standard form.
- 03Your estimators decide.
Price it, qualify it or carry it, with the clause and page in front of them.
Halozen gives your judgment evidence.
Your team keeps its estimating process and gets the review before the number goes out the door.
- Every bid read the same way, whoever on your team is running it
- Every item cited to document, section and page
- What needs a decision before the number goes out the door
- Nothing asserted without a source
Start with
one live bid.
Pick the package on your board you are least comfortable about. Scope and fee agreed up front. Your documents. NDA first.
No implementation. Start with the records you already have.