Jan. 11 at 4:44 PM
$CLIR As a PM in construction on DOE sites for over 30 years, I read hundreds of specifications. The owner and/or the AE more often than not included in the project specs specific products they wanted to incorporate into the project, e.g. "The 15 ton bridge crane SHALL BE a ACME model number xxxxxx, or approved equal." The wording "or approved equal" is required because of the Federal Acquisition Regulations; otherwise, the procurement officer has to produce a document called a "Sole Source Justification", and it is a PIA. This is why somebody needs to get in the ear of the DOE or the engineers hired to rework the burners. The reason specific products are incorporated into specs isn't because owners know what they want (usually), but because manufacturers reps sole job is to pester, cajole, bribe or whatever it takes to get their product incorporated into the specs. If a Clearsign product is specified, there is "no equal" that can be approved.
