An RFI response clarifies that added backing is required in walls already framed. The response changes cost and schedule. What should the contractor do?
Correct Answer
C) Give required notice and process the cost or time impact under the contract change procedure
If an RFI response creates a cost or time impact, the contractor should provide required notice and process the change under the contract procedure. Other choices waive or ignore the impact or omit required work.
Why This Is the Correct Answer
If an RFI response creates a cost or time impact, the contractor should provide required notice and process the change under the contract procedure. Other choices waive or ignore the impact or omit required work.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Option A: Absorb the cost because every RFI is free
Choice A (Absorb the cost because every RFI is free) is rejected because it points to Absorb the cost because every RFI is free, but.
Option B: Handle rFI cost impact by choosing to proceed without notice and claim it at final payment
In procurement and contracting, Proceed without notice and claim it at final payment only is the wrong selection for RFI cost impact: it tries to bypass the RFI cost impact checkpoint.
Option D: Close contract execution first and resolve the rFI cost impact record later
Choice D gives Delete the backing from the work. Its specific error: the option tries to substitute, waive, or delete the RFI cost impact control; the item instead requires Give required notice and process the cost or time impact under the contract change procedure.
Memory Technique
Remember RFI cost impact by its jobsite consequence: the correct move points to Give required notice and process the cost or time impact under the contract change procedure.
Reference Hint
Open NASCLA Contractors Guide to Business, Law and Project Management, 14th Ed.; use the index entry or section for "RFI and change notice procedures" to confirm that If an RFI response creates a cost or time impact, the contractor should provide required notice and process the change under the contract procedure.
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