What control is especially important for time-and-material work?
Correct Answer
A) Signed daily tickets showing labor, equipment, material, and authorization.
T&M work needs contemporaneous tickets because payment is based on actual time and material.
Why This Is the Correct Answer
T&M work needs contemporaneous tickets because payment is based on actual time and material.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Option B: Treat the condition as requiring no records until final completion
Choice B gives No records until final completion. Its specific error: the option does not produce the required Time-and-material control outcome, Signed daily tickets showing labor, equipment, material, and authorization.
Option C: Base the time-and-material control response on a lump-sum bid form only
Choice C (Only a lump-sum bid form.) is rejected because the option delays or omits the controlling step.
Option D: Base the time-and-material control response on an insurance certificate
In procurement and contracting, Only an insurance certificate. is the wrong selection for Time-and-material control: the action skips the timing, documentation, or field-control step needed for Time-and-material control.
Memory Technique
Keep time-and-material control as a cause-to-effect card with Signed daily tickets showing labor, equipment, material, and authorization. on the back.
Reference Hint
Open NASCLA Contractors Guide to Business, Law and Project Management, 14th Ed.; use the index entry or section for "Time and material work" to confirm that T&M work needs contemporaneous tickets because payment is based on actual time and material.
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