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Podcast: GBA Podcast
Episode: #65 - Case History - Treat a Big Deal Like a Big Deal
Description: GBA Case History Series – Case History #65 - Treat a Big Deal Like a Big Deal
Summary
The city retained the Member Firm only for periodic bay-water-sampling services for its “showcase” brownfields project. Different out-of-town firms performed the Geo and Env services. A construction-contract specification made the Member Firm the city’s environmental inspector radically altering what the Member Firm had proposed. Unaware of this change to the “boilerplate” language, the Member Firm signed the contract and forged ahead. Problems during construction led to a suit that was settled through mediation which included monetary payments by all three consul...