Value Engineering - Printable version

museav;87394 said:
"Value Engineering" was intended to be just that, a way for the bidders and Contractors to offer alternates that could potentially increase the value of the work without increasing the cost or decrease the cost without decreasing the value. What it too often becomes is either "how can we cut costs" or "instead of what was designed, what can you do for this budget". A specific example on one project, a bidder recommended going from a four channel to a single channel production communication system. It may reduce the cost but how can anyone suggest it provides the same functionality and capability? Yet it appeared on the VE list (luckily we got it removed from consideration).

A different example: a system was designed specifically with two "master" devices (rather than one "master" and one "slave," which would have suited the project just fine), with the intent that one of the masters would be exhanged for a slave during budget review. Funny thing is, no one questioned it, so two masters were installed.

Value Engineering Printable version