This is a little something that one of the guys in the office came across. We have it up on the wall as a friendly reminder.
Supplementary Conditions
Article 1. The work we want performed is clearly indicated on the attached plans and specifications. The architect who has had plenty of college has spent a hell of a lot of time drawing up these plans and specifications but nobody can think of everything. Once your bid is submitted to the owner, that’s it, brother. From then on anything wanted by the architect, the owner or any of his friends or anybody else, except the contractor, shall be considered as shown, specified, intended or implied and shall be provided by the contractor without any expense to anyone except the contractor.
Article 2. If the work is done without extra expense to the contractor, then the work will be taken down and done over again until the extra expense to the contractor is satisfactory to the engineer.
Article 3. The contract drawings are intended to be correct. If drawn wrong, it should be discovered by the contractor, corrected, and done right at his own expense. It won’t cut any ice with the owner or architect if the contractor points out mistakes which the architect has drawn on the plans. If he does, it will be one hell of a long time before that contractor does any more work for the owner of architect.
Article 4. The contractor is not supposed to make fun of the architect, his plans or specifications. If he does, then he same consequence shall apply as stated in article 3 above.
Article 5. Any contractor walking around job site with a smile on his face shall be subject to a review of his bid.
Article 6. If the contractor doesn’t find all the architects mistakes prior to making his bid on this job or if he doesn’t have enough sense to know that the architect is going to think up a bunch of new stuff that has to be done before the job can be deemed complete, then the contractor shall provide any such items without extra expense to the owner or architect.
Article 7. The contractor shall use good stuff on this job. None of that crap from Japan.
