Originally Posted By: Direct-Drive
Originally Posted By: Hankster
Originally Posted By: Direct-Drive
the job is easy, dealing with the gummint is the challenge.
It's been good.

grin

The 'gunmint' does have a tendency to get in its own way.

Hehehe.....I would say, on average, about six different people have to say "yes" before I can deviate from the contract documents.
Not to mention at least three gophers shuffling paper.

Now that things are "streamlined" a bit, it takes about 5 working days to get an answer.
That's as good as it gets.


Lol. I am on a design build team for a few small Fed projects. Day one of the first one, I am standing on the site with the Fed project Engineer. I ask him "Does the scope of work require us to replace those beams or repair them?" He answers, "Replace". I said "Okay, well the specs are vague, so I will send in an RFI to harden that up." He agreed that would put the issue to bed.

Later that day I send in the paperwork, and a week later call the PE to ask if we can get that so we can clean up the project docs and make the first submittal. He tells me "I get a maximum of 21 days to answer RFIs, and that is when you will get the response."
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