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Make qualifications, exclusions, provisional sums and design responsibilities explicit. Check that preliminaries, logistics, waste management and supervision are priced realistically.
A structured cost build-up with traceable quantities, supplier quote register and assumption log, qualifications, exclusions and contingency notes.
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