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Pythagoras for Owners & Municipalities

Independent audit. Public trust.

A bid package carrying hidden ambiguity produces change orders, claims, and schedule slips after award — on the public record, with public money. An independent read of your documents before they go to market surfaces that risk while it is still fixable.

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The problem

The cost overrun was written into the documents before the first bid arrived.

Vague scope invites change orders. Silent responsibility boundaries invite disputes. Unanswered c.149 questions invite protests. By the time these surface during construction, the remedies are expensive, adversarial, and public. The cheapest place to fix a bid document is before it is issued.

The core deliverable

The 8-Point Bid Audit

An independent, evidence-based read of your own package across eight dimensions of risk and biddability — so the ambiguity that would become a change order or a protest can be resolved by addendum instead.

01 · OWNER READINESS™

Are your documents ready?

Whether your package, budget posture, and administration are set up for a clean project before you commit them to a public procurement.

02 · BIDDABILITY SCORE™

Can bidders price it cleanly?

Where your documents force bidders to guess — the gaps that come back as inflated contingencies or post-award disputes.

03 · CHANGE-ORDER PREDICTION

Where overruns will start

The specific ambiguity most likely to generate post-award cost growth, with the exposure sized as a range.

04 · CLAIMS & DISPUTE SIGNALS

The terms that invite litigation

Risk-shifting and inequitable clauses that make disputes more likely and harder to defend on the public record.

05 · SCHEDULE CONFIDENCE™

Is the timeline realistic?

Duration, phasing, and occupancy assumptions that bidders will challenge — or silently price around.

06 · CONSTRUCTABILITY & COORDINATION

Will it build as drawn?

Cross-discipline conflicts and undefined trade boundaries that become RFIs, change orders, and finger-pointing.

07 · FINANCIAL

The money mechanics

Allowances, unit prices, and funding structures reviewed for clarity and fairness before they reach the street.

08 · EXTENDED GENERAL CONDITIONS

Delay exposure

Where a schedule slip converts into prolonged overhead — and a supplemental appropriation you didn't plan for.

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Measured first. Read second. Judged hard.

Nemesis is our proprietary analysis engine — an independent, consistent, and documented method. It applies the same discipline to every package, so your review is defensible and free of individual bias.

1 · Measure

A deterministic takeoff reads every drawing sheet for scale, dimensions, and geometry. Sheets that can't be quantified are flagged — because a bidder can't price what isn't defined.

2 · Read

The full package is read against a library of risk-language patterns and 45 Massachusetts c.149 clarification items — every finding cited to the exact spec, sheet, or phrase.

3 · Judge

Findings are scored against outcomes from 33 real Massachusetts projects. Only the material, non-obvious ones ship — a tight, defensible record you can act on and stand behind.

The payoff

Cleaner bids in. Fewer disputes out. A record you can defend.

Send documents to market that bidders can price with confidence — and receive bids you can award with confidence. Reduce the change orders, claims, and delays that erode public budgets and public trust.

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