Contract Administration

An addendum adds 14 doors at $685 each installed. What additive amount should be added to the bid for those doors?

An office ceiling takeoff is 11,250 sf. Ceiling tile waste is 6%. How many square feet of tile should be carried?

A pad needs 2,640 compacted cy. Each loose cubic yard yields 0.90 compacted cy. If material is purchased in whole loose cubic yards, what minimum quantity meets the requirement?

A bid carries 68 cy of flowable fill at $154 per cy plus a $900 setup charge. What total should be included?

Taxable material totals $218,400 and applicable tax is estimated at 7%. What tax amount should be included?

A crane has 3 standby days at $1,950 per day after a delivery delay. If a change estimate includes those standby days only, what amount is requested?

A conceptual storage building is 22,600 sf at a benchmark of $148 per sf. What budget does that produce?

Partition surfaces total 18,480 sf. Standard boards cover 32 sf, and the estimator carries 9% waste. How many boards should be included?

Site supervision is budgeted at $4,850 per week. The baseline duration is 18 weeks and an alternate adds 3 weeks. What added supervision cost belongs in the alternate?

A progress billing forecast shows $312,000 earned this month. If retainage is 10%, what cash receipt should be forecast before other deductions?

A Florida bid drawing shows 18,500 sf of low-slope roof membrane. The estimator carries 9% waste for laps and cuts. How many square feet should be included?

A slab detail requires 42 reinforcing bars, each 22 ft long. If 6% lap and waste is included, what linear footage should be carried?

A loading apron is 210 ft by 38 ft. The paving subcontractor prices by square yard, and the estimator carries 5% waste. What quantity should be carried?

A partition takeoff shows 4,480 sf of gypsum board. Using 4 ft by 12 ft sheets and 12% waste, how many sheets should be estimated?

Base labor wages for a bid package are $48,500. Labor burden is estimated at 28%. What total burdened labor cost should be used?

A crew installs 720 sf of acoustic ceiling per day. The project includes 5,040 sf. How many crew days should be planned?

A conceptual office build-out is 18,400 sf and the benchmark cost is $212 per sf. What preliminary budget does that produce?

A layout crew completes 255 lf of wall layout per day. The project has 1,785 lf. At $1,680 per crew day, what labor amount should be carried?

Expected cost is $312,000 and the contractor requires a 13% margin on selling price. What selling price is required?

Bond premium is estimated at 0.72% of a $4,125,000 contract. What amount should be carried?

A ceiling area is 7,680 sf. Main tees are estimated at 0.84 lf per sf plus 5% waste. How many linear feet should be carried?

A permit-fee allowance is carried at 0.95% of a $2,730,000 construction value. What allowance should be included?

A telehandler rents for $2,140 per week for four weeks, with one combined $740 delivery-and-pickup charge. Ignoring other charges, what total should be estimated?

Metal deck measured area is 37,800 sf. The estimator carries 3% waste and lap. What square footage should be priced?

A field-directed change has $27,900 direct cost and 16% allowed markup. What priced amount should be submitted?

A scissor lift rents for $845 per week. Planned use is 7 weeks plus $360 delivery. What total should be carried?

A permit-fee allowance is 1.2% of a $945,000 construction value. What allowance should be carried?

A $36,000 tile allowance is reconciled against a selected installed price of $39,420. Before markup rules, what is the direct overrun?

A glass supplier’s offer states that its price expires five days before the expected award. No extension or price commitment has been agreed. What should the estimator do before submitting the bid?

A demolition scope is expected to fill eight 30-cy containers. Pull and disposal cost is $725 per container plus $1,050 for loading equipment. What total should be carried?

A contractor on a county project receives a progress payment covering work performed by three subcontractors. How long does the contractor have to pay them?

A mechanical subcontractor on a city job is paid by the general contractor and owes its own sheet metal supplier. What is the deadline to pass the money along?

A local government finishes its punch list for a completed project. The listed items are estimated to cost $40,000 to complete. How much of the remaining contract balance may it keep?

The punch list on a city project is created on June 2. By when must the city pay the remaining contract balance less the withholding the statute allows?

A town delivers its punch list 12 days after the date the contract set for delivery. What happens to the contract time?

A corrective item that the contract clearly covers is left off the punch list by mistake. Who is responsible for it?

A local government wants to withhold retainage on a $1.4 million construction contract. What is the most it may hold from each progress payment?

A vendor is owed statutory interest on a late nonconstruction payment from a local government. What must the vendor do to collect it?

A proposed city contract contains a clause stating that the contractor waives all late payment interest. What is the effect of that clause?

A local government payment dispute is resolved in the vendor's favor. From what date does interest run?

A contractor loses a local government payment dispute and wants the matter heard in court. What does the statute say about that?

A contractor sues a local government to recover amounts due under the Local Government Prompt Payment Act and wins. What does the court award beyond the amount due?

A contractor is awarded a public building contract requiring a payment and performance bond. What must happen before work begins?

Which set of items must appear on the front page of a public construction payment bond?

A contractor records the bond but never gives the public entity a certified copy of the recorded bond. What is the consequence?

What is the ordinary amount of a payment and performance bond on Florida public work?

The payment bond was never recorded before work began, and a supplier learns of it only when served with a copy months later. What is its notice deadline?

A subcontractor last performed work on a bonded public job on August 12 and has not been paid. What is the deadline to serve the notice of nonpayment?

No notice of contest is served. How long does a claimant have to sue the contractor or the surety on the payment bond?

A supplier willfully inflates the unpaid amount in its notice of nonpayment. What is the effect on its bond claim?

A public entity project has an estimated cost of $14 million, and the contract extends the period for developing the list of items to complete as far as the statute allows. What is the maximum?

The contractor says every item on the list of items to complete is finished; the public entity disagrees in good faith about two of them, estimated at $12,000 to complete. How much may it still hold?

Two weeks after the list of items to complete is delivered, the public entity finds another item requiring correction under the contract. Who bears it?

A public entity misses the statutory deadline to develop the list of items to complete. What may the contractor request, and when must it be paid?

May warranty items delay the final payment of retainage on a public entity project?

A public entity would like to withhold 3 percent, then step the rate down on a schedule written into the contract, and release part of the retainage early. Is that allowed?

A payment request consists entirely of retainage. Do the ordinary payment deadlines apply to it?

A public entity contract for construction services is identified at $150,000. Does the public construction retainage section apply?

A contractor receives payment from a state agency on a contract for construction services. How long does it have to pay its subcontractors and suppliers?

A contractor on a state agency contract fails without reasonable cause to pay a subcontractor within the statutory period. What penalty accrues?

What does a "permit application" comprise where a private provider has done the plan review?

A tenant asks the general contractor to begin demolition inside an existing space before the permit is issued. What does s. 553.79(1)(a) provide?

The enforcing agency determines that permitted work is not in conformity with the Florida Building Code. What may it do under s. 553.79(1)(a)?

A permit is denied because the plans are found not to comply. What must the local enforcing agency give the applicant?

What must a request for a certificate of occupancy include on a private provider job?

A building official issues a foundation-only permit before the full construction documents are submitted. What is the holder’s position under s. 553.79(8)?

To whom may an enforcing agency issue a building permit for a threshold building?

After a permit is issued, when may the local enforcing agency require substantive changes to the plans?

What is the relationship between the Florida Building Code and local building construction ordinances?

A jurisdiction imposes an administrative requirement beyond the base Florida Building Code. On what basis may it do so?

When must the structural inspection plan for a threshold building be approved?

Who selects and pays the special inspector on a threshold building, and to whom is that inspector responsible?

What license must a special inspector on a threshold building hold?

When may an enforcement agency NOT perform a virtual inspection under s. 553.79(6)?

Work fails an inspection and the inspector gives no reason within 5 business days. What does s. 553.79(7)(a) require?

A local enforcement agency may adopt a rule exempting an owner’s own work on a single-family residence. What size limit does s. 553.80(3)(b)1 set?

A local code exemption can cover work by a nonowner. What cost limit applies under s. 553.80(3)(b)1.b?

A standard certificate holder under chapter 468 is not a licensed building code administrator, engineer or architect. Which work falls within the additional private-provider qualification in section 553.791(1)(n), subject to the holder’s certified disciplines?

What limit does s. 553.791(1)(b) place on the local building official when a private provider is used?

How does s. 553.791 define an "immediate threat to public safety and welfare"?

What must a stop-work order contain, as the term is defined in s. 553.791(1)(s)?

What form must the arrangement with a private provider take?

Who must sign the notice of commencement under Florida lien-law requirements?

A notice of commencement was recorded, but no work actually starts for more than 90 days. What should the PM verify before relying on it?

For work subject to the notice-of-commencement requirements, with no applicable inspection exception, which step should be coordinated before the first inspection?

A canceled project has a recorded notice of commencement. The owner wants to end its effectiveness and can satisfy the applicable statutory prerequisites. Which process applies?

The owner changes the legal description after discovering a parcel reference error. What notice issue should be checked?

The owner wants to end the notice period after canceling the project. What process applies?

A permit application identifies the contractor responsible for the work. What should the GC verify before submission?

What does s. 489.131(3) preserve for a municipality or county?

A delivery arrives damaged and missing required certifications. What should the superintendent do?

A required water test fails before cover-up. What should be done?

When must a signal person be provided during a crane lift under subpart CC?

A competent person’s excavation inspection finds evidence of a possible cave-in. What does s. 1926.651(k)(2) require?

A delivery arrives with damaged packaging and missing certification documents. What should the superintendent do?

A two-week look-ahead schedule shows drywall starting before rough inspections. What should the superintendent do?

A pipe route changes in the field with approved direction. What should the GC do with record documents?

A submittal is returned 'revise and resubmit' with comments affecting product selection. What should the GC do?

A revised drawing changes a ceiling access-panel location after older sheets were already distributed. What should the PM do?

Electrical rough-in will conflict with fire-sprinkler mains unless the trades coordinate above the corridor ceiling. What should the GC do?

The owner issues a punch list at substantial completion. What is the GC's proper operational focus?

A sleeve location conflict will affect tomorrow's concrete pour. What should the PM do?

A submittal is rejected but the material is already onsite. What should the GC do?

The two-week schedule shows tile starting before substrate testing and HVAC conditioning. What should the superintendent do?

A crew will cut masonry near an occupied entry. What should the GC coordinate first?

Waterproofing is rejected before backfill. How should the superintendent control correction?

The owner asks how warranties, O&M manuals, attic stock, keys, and training will be tracked. What should the PM use?

A delivery delay stops a critical trade for one day. What should the superintendent record?

A fire-rated door delivery lacks labels and has damaged frames. What is the best field response?

A crew will cut concrete near an occupied walkway. What should the GC coordinate first?

A portion of installed waterproofing fails observation before cover-up. What should the superintendent do?

The owner asks how training, O&M manuals, warranties, attic stock, and keys will be tracked. What tool should the PM use?

A detail conflict will affect tomorrow's wall layout. What should the PM do?

The look-ahead schedule starts drywall before rough inspections and blocking are complete. What should happen?

Welding is planned in an occupied area near combustible finishes. What controls should be coordinated?

A duct pressure test fails before ceiling closure. What is the proper field response?

A submittal is rejected, but the trade wants to order material. What should the GC do?

A crew will sawcut near an occupied entrance. What should be coordinated?

Installed wall panels are rejected for nonconformance. What field-control action is best?

The owner verbally requests added signage during a walkthrough. What should the PM do before work?