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- Tender · 1 · The client's wish list
The tender says "comply with Appendix K". Nobody has Appendix K. What do you do?
A document you haven't seen is a requirement you can't price. Ask, and if there's no answer, say what you've assumed.
- Tender · 2 · Whose system is it anyway?
The client names three systems they want used on the job. What happens at tender?
Systems nobody mapped at tender become systems nobody priced, and everything gets typed twice.
- Tender · 3 · Who's actually doing this?
The bid says information will be managed by "the IM team". Good enough?
"The IM team" was one person on five jobs, who found out from the client.
- Tender · 4 · The promise
It's due tomorrow. Last job's information plan is nearly right. What do you do?
The plan is the bid's biggest promise. Somebody always finds the last client's name on page 14.
- Tender · 5 · Can they actually do it?
A subcontractor ticks "Yes, we can manage information". What now?
A tick isn't evidence. Six ticks once turned out to be one laptop from 2009.
- Tender · 6 · The plan for day one
When should the plan for day one (mobilisation) be written?
Left until it's happening, the plan for day one gets written in week six.
- Tender · 7 · What could go wrong?
The only information risk on the register says "IT failure". What do you do?
Information risks are project risks. Write them like everyone else's, then invite yourself to the workshop.
- Tender · 8 · Signed, sealed
Subcontract enquiries go out tomorrow. Where do the information requirements go?
If they're not in the enquiry, they're not in the price, and every fix becomes a variation.
- Delivery · 1 · Which one's the real one?
The client has a CDE. So do we. So does the designer. Which one do people build from?
Two places both claiming to be the real one is how you get two "latest" drawings.
- Delivery · 2 · The plan grows up
When is the bid's information plan confirmed with the real team and agreed with the client?
The confirmed plan is part of what you sign. Confirm it afterwards and you've signed up to a plan nobody agreed.
- Delivery · 3 · Who makes what, and when
Site needs the inlet chamber drawing next month. Where should it be?
If it isn't on the plan, it's on nobody's list, and you get a very detailed fence instead.
- Delivery · 4 · Ready before day one
You're testing the CDE before go-live. What do you test with?
Testing on live drawings is how real work goes missing before the job has even started.
- Delivery · 5 · Made to the rules
Four firms are about to start modelling. What do they need first?
Four sets of house rules gave us four grids and a plant room in a field.
- Delivery · 6 · Checked, actually
Forty drawings arrive at 4.55 on a Friday, all marked "checked". What do you do?
A tick is a claim. Forty ticks in four minutes ended in a paddling pool.
- Delivery · 7 · The night before
The milestone is on Friday. When does everyone review the whole package together?
Every piece can be checked and the whole thing still not fit. Looking at it the night before is too late.
- Delivery · 8 · It got out
Drawings of the shopping centre turn up somewhere they shouldn't. First move?
Nobody said a word, and the client found out from a ransom note.
- Delivery · 9 · Signed out, signed for
Handover is on Friday. Dave wants to send all 2,000 files. Do you?
Two thousand files, nothing authorised, nothing accepted, and the payment held.
- Delivery · 10 · It's all on the drive
The job's handed over and everyone's moved on. Is it closed?
Left on the drive, it was tidied away before the defect claim arrived.
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