Text: Estimated facility cost and schedule issues receive increasingly intense review during the design phase so that the owner has a high level of confidence prior to bid that the performance, quality, cost, and schedule objectives defined during the conceptual planning phase can be met.
Entailment: The owner requires a high degree of confidence in the planning phase's data before bidding the job.
Contradiction: The conceptual planning process delivers accurate operating cost information, and does not require further scrutiny.