When a schedule isn't a schedule.

When a schedule isn’t a schedule.

Continuing Cost Shifting to the Subs

Contracts

1. Don’t simply try to sneak it in without saying anything or putting it in the Table of Contents for the spec documents.
2. If you don’t start on time and finish on time thus delaying our start and pushing us into a busier season and messing with our schedule by months then realize your schedule needs to be renegotiated.
3. Don’t accuse your subs of being behind when in fact they are waiting on you.
4. Actually call the subs you will be working with. Don’t tell your contracted sub that you came up with an overly aggressive schedule by talking to one of the other bidders.

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