Catch the change
before you sign it.
Most exposure does not arrive labelled as a change. It arrives as a supplementary condition that deletes a clause of the standard form and replaces it with something worse.
Supplementary condition items against 63 pages of General Conditions.
In a 537-page project manual. Bonds Ranch Road, Fort Worth, bid April 2026.
Source: Bonds Ranch Road, City of Fort Worth
Every change,
with its effect.
Redefined, added, supplemented or a baseline gap: each change named, from the public Bonds Ranch Road set.
Right-of-way still to be acquired “as of December 4th, 2025”, and a permit list dated September 11th, 2024: both reported as baseline gaps, not skipped.
Not every change announces itself as one.
- 01Deleted
A clause of the standard form is struck and nothing takes its place. Your team prices as though it is still there.
- 02Replaced
A defined term is rewritten, or a new incentive regime appears in the definitions. It reads as familiar and gets skimmed.
- 03Baseline defect
The package rewrites a clause of a document that is not in the set, so nobody can say what it used to require.
What it replaced,
not a note that it changed.
Your team reads both versions side by side and decides in a minute what a description would have taken an afternoon to argue about.
Contract Time—The number of days or the dates stated in the Agreement to: (i) achieve Milestones, if any and (ii) complete the Work so that it is ready for Final Acceptance.
Contractor—The individual or entity with whom City has entered into the Agreement.
Contract Time – The designated time to achieve Final Acceptance as stated in the Agreement.
Contractor-Specified Time of Completion – The number of Days specified by the Offeror in the Proposal form … which becomes the Contractor’s agreed to number of Days to Achieve Substantial Completion.
Daily Value – The City-determined value in dollars … for the purposes of determining the Incentive or Disincentive relative to the Contractor-Specified Time of Completion and achievement of Substantial Completion.
An amendment only exists between two documents.
Reading the conditions against the form tells you what they changed. Your set goes in whole, in the formats you already receive.
- Contracts, agreements and general conditions
- Supplementary conditions
- Specifications and divisions
- Addenda and bulletins
- Instructions to bidders
- Exhibits and attachments
We show it. Your team decides.
You decide what is acceptable
What you carry and what you push back on is a risk-appetite call, and it stays with your team.
We don't touch your documents
We read the package. Nothing is edited or sent to the owner.
Every change carries its source
The clause, the replacement and where each came from, or it does not ship.
Every requirement and amendment in the bid package, cited.
Pre-Award Commercial ReviewAmendments, conflicts and documents the package never sent.
Conflicts & Baseline DefectsNotice triggers and windows as your package writes them.
Notice DeadlinesCommon questions
What are supplementary conditions?
Owner-written changes to the standard general conditions. They delete, replace or add to clauses, often without saying so plainly.
What does an amendment review show?
Every change the package makes to the standard form, with the original wording beside the new wording and the source of each, so your team can see what moved.
What kinds of amendment are easiest to miss?
Deleted protections, rewritten defined terms, and changes to documents that are not in the set at all.
Find out what changed
before you sign.
Scope and fee agreed up front. Findings in two weeks. NDA first.
No implementation. Start with the records you already have.