The low bidder will be the bidder who needs the project the most. The low bidder will undoubtedly be the bidder intent on making the most of errors, omissions or ambiguous language in the bid documents. The low bidder will likely place his least expensive personnel and equipment on the job. And, because of these factors, the low bidder is immediately placed in an adversarial position with respect to the owner and the design team. At least not in my lifetime.
Construction management is a term of which most administrators have heard.
More than one city council or school board has made poor decisions in implementing construction management . Some have even been drug into litigation. Our objective in this newsletter is to make administrators a little more knowledgeable of what construction management is and what it is not. The CM is hired early in the planning process so that his expertise in building materials and trades can be passed along to the design team. In fact, he becomes an essential resource for the design team, gathering quotations for various elements of the project in advance.