Hot take · 35:58
// THE QUOTE
“we're about 85% successful in changing the buyers notion of how the tender should be written”
— Giovanni Cautillo · Ontario General Contractors Association
A hard claim with a number — 85% success rewriting tenders in the contractor's favour, and why GCs with in-house legal still come to the association.
Full episode at 35:58How an Association Beats Brutal Construction Contracts (OGCA President on Tender Risk & the Labour Gap) ▸
THE LESSON THIS CLIP CARRIES
Don't require error-and-omissions insurance on a stip-sum bid-build; it's only needed on design-build, and pricing it wastes the contractor's money.
“a stip sum doesn't require an Eno so let's let's remove that so that the contractor is not pricing something that they don't need to”
Clips like this, every two weeks.
SOURCE: 35:58 of How an Association Beats Brutal Construction Contracts (OGCA President on Tender Risk & the Labour Gap)