Write the scope to close the assumption gaps
Every gap in the scope is one each tenderer fills with a different assumption, which you meet again as variations once the works start. Read your own scope as a tenderer would and ask, at each edge, whose scope is this. Name the interfaces, the making good, the setting out, the testing and commissioning.
Updated: 22 August 2026
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