Field conditions require immediate dewatering work, and the price cannot be agreed before the pump crew mobilizes. What record should the contractor protect while proceeding under written direction?
Correct Answer
A) Daily labor, equipment, material, and subcontractor cost records for later pricing
When changed work proceeds before final pricing, detailed daily cost records support later adjustment. Other choices do not document the cost of the directed changed work.
Why This Is the Correct Answer
When changed work proceeds before final pricing, detailed daily cost records support later adjustment. Other choices do not document the cost of the directed changed work.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Option B: Base the unpriced change work response on the original bid recap
In procurement and contracting, Only the original bid recap is the wrong selection for Unpriced change work: the option delays or omits the controlling step.
Option C: Classify the condition as a blank warranty form
The trap in C is A blank warranty form. That selection is wrong because the choice would not get the project to Daily labor, equipment, material, and subcontractor cost records for later pricing, which is the Unpriced change work result verified by the source; Unpriced directed work should be.
Option D: Make the architect's lunch order the answer for unpriced change work
Choice D gives The architect's lunch order. Its specific error: the option does not produce the required Unpriced change work outcome, Daily labor, equipment, material, and subcontractor cost records for later pricing.
Memory Technique
Picture a field note on the jobsite; unpriced change work is solved by the action that leads to Daily labor, equipment, material, and subcontractor cost records for later pricing.
Reference Hint
Open Construction Jobsite Management, 5th Ed.; use the index entry or section for "Force-account or directed-change documentation" to confirm that When changed work proceeds before final pricing, detailed daily cost records support later adjustment.
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