An addendum issued three days before bid opening revises the door schedule. How is that addendum treated in procurement?
Correct Answer
C) As part of the bidding and contract documents once issued
A properly issued addendum becomes part of the bidding documents and later contract documents. Other choices treat issued bid information as optional, post-award only, or bidder-specific.
Why This Is the Correct Answer
A properly issued addendum becomes part of the bidding documents and later contract documents. Other choices treat issued bid information as optional, post-award only, or bidder-specific.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Option A: As optional information unless the bidder likes it
Choice A (As optional information unless the bidder likes it) is rejected because it shifts the question into contract administration money flow.
Option B: Base the addendum status response on as a post-award change order
In procurement and contracting, As a post-award change order only is the wrong selection for Addendum status: it leaves the work at an informal or incomplete stage, while Addendum status requires As part of the bidding and contract documents once issued.
Option D: As a private note that only affects the low bidder
Choice D gives As a private note that only affects the low bidder. Its specific error: the action skips the timing, documentation, or field-control step needed for Addendum status.
Memory Technique
Use a rough-in sticker memory cue for addendum status: the stem's condition unlocks As part of the bidding and contract documents once issued.
Reference Hint
Open NASCLA Contractors Guide to Business, Law and Project Management, 14th Ed.; use the index entry or section for "Addenda as bidding documents" to confirm that A properly issued addendum becomes part of the bidding documents and later contract documents.
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