A low bidder's price is complete, but its qualification file shows no similar project experience and insufficient bonding capacity. What should the owner evaluate?
Correct Answer
B) Whether the bidder is responsible and capable of performing the work
A complete price may still require responsibility review for experience, capacity, and resources. Other choices focus on bid receipt or closeout rather than bidder capability.
Why This Is the Correct Answer
A complete price may still require responsibility review for experience, capacity, and resources. Other choices focus on bid receipt or closeout rather than bidder capability.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Option A: Base the bidder responsibility concern response on whether the bid arrived in a sealed envelope only
Choice A gives Only whether the bid arrived in a sealed envelope. Its specific error: the action skips the timing, documentation, or field-control step needed for Bidder responsibility concern.
Option C: Use a later change request to handle bidder responsibility concern after award
In procurement and contracting, Whether all punch-list items are finished is the wrong selection for Bidder responsibility concern: it leaves out the controlling Bidder responsibility concern result: Whether the bidder is responsible and capable of performing the work.
Option D: Whether final retainage can be released
The trap in D is Whether final retainage can be released. That selection is wrong because it names a financial document or payment mechanism, not the Bidder responsibility concern action/result stated by Whether the bidder is responsible and capable of performing the work; A bidder may be low and responsive but still subject to responsibility review.
Memory Technique
Use the phrase "problem, control, result" for bidder responsibility concern; the result side is Whether the bidder is responsible and capable of performing the work.
Reference Hint
Open Construction Project Management, 5th Ed. (2022); use the index entry or section for "Bidder responsibility review" to confirm that A complete price may still require responsibility review for experience, capacity, and resources.
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