Off-price retail, store remodel
- Sector
- National off-price retail chain
- Region
- Bronx, NY
- Trade package
- Interior painting, labor
- Scope basis
- Room finish schedule, dimensional plan, ceiling notes and door schedule, as revised by pre-bid addendum
- Door and frame count
- 17 doors and frames
The scope question
The bid drawings showed a wall panel line at 4'-0" AFF. A pre-bid addendum
moved it to 6'-0" throughout, including the locker room and office hall. Paint
only starts above that line, so two feet of wall came out of the package across the
whole sales floor perimeter, the column enclosures and the entry vestibule. A bidder
working from the original sheets prices wall that the panel now covers.
Two more items went out in writing rather than being carried silently. The pre-bid
minutes called for dry fall at the open ceiling over the processing room without naming
the product, so the bid stated the rate carried and flagged it to be trued up against
the architect’s specification. The new painted exit-path stripe had no dimensions
yet, so it was carried as a stated allowance rather than a guess buried in the lump
sum.
Scope carried: back-of-house walls, sales floor perimeter band above
the panel line, column enclosures, entry vestibule, gypsum board ceilings in semi-gloss,
dry fall on exposed structure at processing, a 6" perimeter decor stripe, and the
door and frame schedule. Lay-in acoustic ceilings, wall protection systems and
factory-finished doors were excluded by name.
Retail medical clinic, specialty finish
- Sector
- Retail medical, tenant fit-out
- Region
- Manhattan, NY
- Trade package
- Substrate preparation for specialty finish
- Coated surface
- 2,689 SF wall, 427 SF ceiling
- Finish schedule
- Three Venetian plaster finishes
- Prep standard
- Skim coat and latex primer, contractor-supplied
The scope question
Specialty plaster is only as good as what it goes over. The applicator’s quote
put skim coat and latex primer on the contractor, not on their own scope. That is a
substantial area of Level 5-equivalent preparation sitting in a gap between two trades,
and it is exactly the kind of line that gets missed when a package is priced off a
finish schedule alone.
The prep was scoped, measured against the finish schedule area by area, and carried
explicitly rather than assumed into the plaster line.
Medical diagnostics, patient service centre
- Sector
- Medical fit-out, existing tenant space
- Region
- NY metro
- Trade package
- Painting and drywall
- Room count
- 13 rooms, including patient encounter, waiting, specimen consolidation, break room, restrooms and mechanical
- Prep standard
- Existing walls reviewed, repaired and replaced as required to receive a new Level 3 drywall finish
- Wall protection
- Corner guards at the main corridor and the accessible patient encounter room
The scope question
The floor plan called out corner guards and a Level 3 finish over existing walls, and
referred the finish schedule to two different sheets in two different notes. Neither
sheet was in the set issued for bid. Without a finish schedule there is no documented
ceiling height, paint product or wall protection height anywhere in the package.
That is a request for information before it is a price. The missing sheets were
identified by number and requested, rather than filling the gap with an assumption and
discovering the difference after award.
National retail rollout, multi-store programme
- Sector
- National retail rollout
- Region
- Multiple locations
- Trade package
- Painting
- Delivery model
- Repeat store prototype across multiple locations
The scope question
Rollout work rewards a bidder who treats the prototype as a starting point rather than
a finished answer. Store conditions differ: existing substrate, ceiling height, and how
much of the previous fit-out survives demolition. Quantities are re-derived per store
against that store’s drawings, and anything carried across from a prior location
is stated as an assumption instead of presented as a measurement.