Rock excavation quantities exceed the bid estimate for a unit-price item. What controls payment?
Correct Answer
C) Measured authorized quantity multiplied by the contract unit price, subject to notice terms.
Unit-price payment uses measured quantities under the contract, with required documentation and notice.
Why This Is the Correct Answer
Unit-price payment uses measured quantities under the contract, with required documentation and notice.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Option A: The original estimated quantity only in all cases
The trap in A is The original estimated quantity only in all cases. That selection is wrong because it tries to bypass the Unit price overrun notice checkpoint.
Option B: Classify it as a verbal daily report with no measurement
Choice B gives A verbal daily report with no measurement. Its specific error: it leaves the work at an informal or incomplete stage, while Unit price overrun notice requires Measured authorized quantity multiplied by the contract unit price, subject to notice terms.
Option D: Use the final warranty date as the unit-price overrun notice date
In procurement and contracting, The final warranty date. is the wrong selection for Unit price overrun notice: the option does not produce the required Unit price overrun notice outcome, Measured authorized quantity multiplied by the contract unit price, subject to notice terms.
Memory Technique
Tag the scene with unit price overrun notice: wrong actor or wrong timing means the fix is not Measured authorized quantity multiplied by the contract unit price, subject to notice terms.
Reference Hint
Open NASCLA Contractors Guide to Business, Law and Project Management, 14th Ed.; use the index entry or section for "Unit-price quantity overrun" to confirm that Unit-price payment uses measured quantities under the contract, with required documentation and notice.
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