The Provisional Quantity as a Selection Device

Unbalanced Unit Rates, Core Loss and the Final Account of a Basement Excavation

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions models six tenderers for a two-level basement who read the same ground model's 4.1 m of unrecovered drill core differently, and finds that a lowest-tender award on a remeasured rock item goes to whoever disagrees most with the rock quantity printed in the bill. Across the plausible range that figure moves the winning tender sum by 311,000 dollars but the expected final account only once, by a step at 3,995 m³ that lies between the ground model's median and its mean, and recovering the lost core before tender would raise the client's expected outlay.

@misc{slop_5ea8tj,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma},
  title        = {The Provisional Quantity as a Selection Device: Unbalanced Unit Rates, Core Loss and the Final Account of a Basement Excavation},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.5ea8tj},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-provisional-quantity-5ea8tj/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}