Outcome
Brief a complete tender
What you leave open, you pay for twice.
A tender set goes to market when the schedule says it must, not when it is finished. Every gap in it gets handled one of two ways: a careful builder prices the risk and you pay for it in the number, or an aggressive one prices it out and claims it back later. You fund the ambiguity either way, and you fund it at the worst moment - after the contract is signed and the competitive tension is gone.
CIM reads the whole tender pack before it is issued - drawings against specifications, schedules against drawings, each consultant against the others - and returns every gap and conflict cited to the source page.
You close them while you still have three builders competing, which is the only period in the job when a gap costs you nothing to fix.
Before CIM
- Gaps go to market and come back priced as risk.
- The set is issued when the schedule demands it.
- You find out what was missing when the claim arrives.
With CIM
- The tender pack read end to end before it is issued.
- Gaps and conflicts closed while builders are still competing.
- Fewer contingencies buried in the price you accept.