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Specset Construction · For the teams that bid and build

Catch it on paper, not in concrete.

Specset screens every bid, reviews the design, checks the submittals, and keeps closeout building as you go.

PROJECT MANUAL · VOLUME 1 OF 3SECTION 00 21 13INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERSARTICLE 4 · CONTRACT TIME4.2 Liquidated damages: $4,500 per calendarday beyond substantial completion.ARTICLE 7 · BID SECURITY7.1 Bid bond: ten percent (10%) of the totalbid amount, surety rated A- or better.ARTICLE 9 · PARTICIPATION9.4 DBE participation goal: 18% of contractvalue. Good-faith effort documentation duewith bid.00 21 13 · 3PROJECT MANUAL · VOLUME 1 OF 3SECTION 00 21 13INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERSARTICLE 4 · CONTRACT TIME4.2 Liquidated damages: $4,500 per calendarday beyond substantial completion.ARTICLE 7 · BID SECURITY7.1 Bid bond: ten percent (10%) of the totalbid amount, surety rated A- or better.ARTICLE 9 · PARTICIPATION9.4 DBE participation goal: 18% of contractvalue. Good-faith effort documentation duewith bid.00 21 13 · 3SECTION 00 73 00SPECIAL PROVISIONS1.6 · WORK RESTRICTIONSA. Work within the rail envelope islimited to 2100–0500, BNSF flaggerpresent. No weekend closures.00 73 00 · 2SECTION 00 73 00SPECIAL PROVISIONS1.6 · WORK RESTRICTIONSA. Work within the rail envelope islimited to 2100–0500, BNSF flaggerpresent. No weekend closures.00 73 00 · 2BID SCREEN00 21 13LDs $4,500 / dayBid bond 10%DBE goal 18%Night work only, BNSF2 schedule risks · 0 disqualifiersPURSUE
Auxiliary spillway, Folsom Dam · Photo: USACE
01 · Bid

Evaluate every project before you commit.

The bid set is the cheapest place to find a problem. Specset reads the whole package the day it arrives and prices the risk with you, not after award.

Bid day · Go / no-go

Priced with eyes open.

Incoming invitations are scored against your go / no-go criteria. The contract gets a 93-point review with every unfavorable clause severity-flagged: liquidated damages, payment terms, schedule, closeout obligations. Quantities come off the sheet set as a takeoff that exports to Excel and your proposal template. And every project you price gets a screening design review, so the risk you carry into the number is the risk you chose.

Every bidscreened before you commit
93-ptcontract review, severity-flagged
Hoursfrom bid set to priced scope
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Fig. 01 · The whole package read before the number goes in
Pre-bid · Design screen

Every bid set gets a screening design review: spec sections cross-checked against the sheets, conflicts and omissions filed as cited findings. Price them, clarify them, or walk. Design-build teams run the same review on their own milestone sets.

See a design quality review →
Non-standard specs welcome

Caltrans special provisions, UFGS, a port authority book, a scanned county manual: upload it as issued. Specset conforms it into one governing spec book before the screening starts.

How the record is built →Federal and public programs →UFGS and DOT specs →
02 · Build

The construction record runs itself.

Submittals, RFIs, revisions, safety plans, and the schedule live in one governing record that agents keep current, checked, and cited while your team builds.

Fig. 02 · The register the spec demands, reviewed against the section that governs it
Submittal register, extracted

Every required submittal pulled from the spec book into real packages, each citing its section and paragraph.

Submittal log →
Submittals, pre-reviewed

Hundreds of checks per package against the governing spec, drawings, and RFIs before it reaches the engineer of record.

Submittal review →
RFIs, checked both ways

Drafted, tracked, and every incoming answer checked against the latest set before the field builds from it.

RFIs & revisions →
Revisions, fully compared

Every change between two drawing versions, including the ones no one clouded, with the spec impact traced.

Plan comparison →
Schedule & lookahead

Critical path, float, and baseline variance read from the schedule file, with a crew-level lookahead.

Schedule intelligence →
Safety plans, drafted

Site-specific safety plans drafted from the contract requirements into your own templates, ready for review.

Document generation →
~1 in 5submittals approved as submitted in one project · Alves et al., 2016
Over 1/3revised entirely before acceptance in one project · Alves et al., 2016
100%of spec sections covered in the register
The deliverable

Findings drawn on the package.

Every issue is clouded on the page it came from, numbered, and compiled behind a clickable table of contents with your firm's stamp. The engineer of record gets a package that has already been through a review, not a first draft.

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Fig. 02b · Findings drawn on the package, compiled behind a clickable TOC
Works where the record lives
ProcoreAutodesk ACCSharePointEmailMCPSpecset CLI
03 · Close out

Closeout builds as you go.

O&M packages, warranties, and asset data are captured while the work happens, not reconstructed in the last month before final.

Turnover · The record that hands off alive

The last month stops being the worst month.

Every approved submittal, warranty, and O&M document files itself into the closeout record at approval time. Contractor O&M packages are unbundled per asset instead of buried in a thousand-page PDF. Closeout documents draft into your own templates. At final, the turnover package is already assembled, and the owner inherits a record they can actually operate from.

  • Closeout record built from source documents as they are approved
  • Contractor O&M packages unbundled per asset, location, and system
  • Warranties extracted with start dates and expiration windows
  • Turnover documents drafted into your firm's own templates
See a turnover record →
Work arrives as engagements?

Run it as a program.

CM firms, owner's reps, and engineers of record on task-order vehicles run Specset company-wide: engagements committed annually, unlimited users, one platform across the book of business.

After delivery

The record keeps working.

At turnover, the closeout record becomes the owner's operations record: assets, warranties, maintenance plans, and work orders, answerable for the life of the asset. Projects built on Specset convert at the preferred rate.

Facilities & Maintenance →
FedRAMP 20x · in progressSOC 2 Type IISpecGov CUI enclave
Security & compliance →
Start where you are

Bring the next bid set.

Send us the specs and drawings from a project you're pricing and we'll return a sample screening review, typically within a day.