Half of all construction contracts don't include changes both sides agreed to. After negotiating amendments, the agreed revisions often vanish from the final document, whether through oversight, miscommunication between the contracts administrator and lawyer, or internal hand-off failures.
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And so, as part of that document, you go over and back. You know, typically you submit, then they come back and we don't agree to this, and you go back again. Then you agree your position on all of these different things. Now, typically what you want to have happen here is you want them to make those changes into the contract, and then you sign that contract. Couple of things that can go wrong. One is, and this is from our data, is when you ask them to make all of the changes that you've agreed, 50% of the time, 50, 5-0% of the time, they haven't made all of those changes. Now, who knows why they haven't made them? Maybe it's a contracts person on their side. The lawyer has gone over and back with you, but the contracts person themselves is the guy who's going to make the changes or whatever. That hasn't actually happened. I don't know, is this intentional? I don't know, is it by accident? But 50% of the time, that's what happens.