There are major disadvantages of having a construction acquisition/procurement plan lacking granularity.
With respect to construction, renovation, maintenance, sustainability or repair procurements, lacking granularity results in a lack of cost visibility and transparency and financial management inefficiencies. A detailed unit price cost proposal should be required for all such projects. The information provided should be in a standardized data architecture, such as CSI Masterformat. Locally researched detailed unit price cost books provided the highest ability to represent actual costs and should be used by owners and service providers, in addition to other reliable tools and techniques.
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