Planning the Work - Questions

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You should, well, the clear answer here is, you should not really say anything, you should say, thanks for the issue, we're really happy that you're bidding, we'll get back to you, and then what you're gonna get back to them with is you're gonna keep a log of all the questions, so, a log of questions, and you're gonna keep track of those questions and, probably what will happen is you'll end up with three or four questions that are all kind of the same and so you kind of put them together as one question and, maybe you have a bunch of other ones that are individuals, and some that are obvious and some that are not so obvious, but you keep a log of questions, and then you're gonna put those together into an addenda, and you're gonna pass that addenda out, that addenda will be numbered and dated and, it will be very clearly sort of marked as here's the question, here's the response. When that gets sent out to all of the bidders, not just the one who asked the question, then everybody has the same information and it literally changes the bid package, the bid package now is not just the drawings and specifications and whatever else was originally in the bid package, it actually is now all of that plus the addenda, so that when the bid comes back in, they are responsible for having understood what was in that addenda, and making sure that that information is part of their actual bid. Very important to kind of keep track of those things, one of the interesting things that comes up often, is how often do you put out an addenda?

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