Preliminary Tender

We received our preliminary tender documents two weeks ago.  We were given 48 hours to review and sign it but we requested to extend it to a weekend.  Our CLE initially agreed to it but at the very last minute told us that she cannot grant us extension.  We were not very happy with it but a good thing happened as a result of the many changes we requested especially in our electrical selections.  We were scheduled for a Tender Appointment with a Tender Presenter.  We were told that we were not entitled to this because our package is fixed price.  I'm not sure why, but I think everyone should have a Tender appointment.

Our last electrical appointment was not very satisfactory.  Our consultant was not very thorough and not helpful at all.  A lot of things were not explained to us.  Our emails were not replied to and when we called Carlisle office, it was only then that we were advised that our consultant no longer works there.  Most of our changes are electrical selections and it's difficult to do this via phone or email.

We also had a lot of questions about the preliminary tender and we refused to sign it without being explained to us in details.

The morning of our Tender appointment went very smoothly.  We were able to change and add items to the Tender document.  Before going for lunch, we asked the presenter why the door on the first floor is not aligned to the door on the ground floor.  As you can see in the photo of the facade, the windows and door upstairs are symmetrical to the ones on the ground floor.

But in the drawing the door upstairs is not aligned to the door downstairs.  There is a big void space on the right side of the door.  This is not what I am expecting with this facade.  Being OC, this is not acceptable.  I expect the doors to be symmetrical.  Anyway, this was not resolved on the day and we are going to have another appointment to discuss this further.