After bids are opened, the apparent low bidder admits its price omitted an addendum that changed door hardware. What should the procurement review focus on?
Correct Answer
B) Treat the omission as a responsiveness and scope problem under the bid instructions before award
Missing addendum scope can make a bid nonresponsive or incomplete, so the issue must be resolved under the bid instructions before award. Other choices distort the competitive basis or turn pre-award scope into an automatic extra.
Why This Is the Correct Answer
Missing addendum scope can make a bid nonresponsive or incomplete, so the issue must be resolved under the bid instructions before award. Other choices distort the competitive basis or turn pre-award scope into an automatic extra.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Option A: Award anyway because low price controls every defect, leaving missed addendum unverified
Choice A (Award anyway because low price controls every defect) is rejected because it leaves out the controlling Missed addendum result: Treat the omission as a responsiveness and scope problem.
Option C: Add the missing scope to the first change order automatically
The trap in C is Add the missing scope to the first change order automatically. That selection is wrong because the option answers a paperwork, payment, or bonding issue.
Option D: Ask other bidders to remove the addendum too
Choice D gives Ask other bidders to remove the addendum too. Its specific error: it shifts the question into contract administration money flow.
Memory Technique
Picture a rough-in sticker on the jobsite; missed addendum is solved by the action that leads to Treat the omission as a responsiveness and scope problem under the bid instructions before award.
Reference Hint
Open NASCLA Contractors Guide to Business, Law and Project Management, 14th Ed.; use the index entry or section for "Bid responsiveness and addenda" to confirm that Missing addendum scope can make a bid nonresponsive or incomplete, so the issue must be resolved under the bid instructions before award.
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