Rudy,
One of my jobs recently, I made a point of attending pre-bids to make the following statement: "You know those things called specs you normally ignore? DON'T ignore them here, study them very well, you WILL comply with them... PERIOD"

As far as I was concerned, they were fairly warned after that. Now I find myself in a position where I hear the normal "Specs... I didn't read those" and without the authority to feed them to them...... aaaaahhhhhh, wake me up from this nightmare.