You’ve read the hardware schedule. Forty electrified openings. The door sub’s quote excludes power and line voltage. The electrical sub excludes the door pathway. The security integrator excludes the electric hardware. Each exclusion is rational. Together they leave a hole, and the hole is standing on your number with nobody behind it to back-charge.
You sent the RFI. It came back coordinate in the field — which assigns nothing, closes the question, and starts the clock on a change order argued after award, when every party who excluded the scope excluded it correctly.
You know the manual fix: read all three divisions against each other before the bid goes out. You also know the truth about the bid window — that read does not fit inside it, so it gets skipped, and the skip is invisible until the wall is closed.
And you’ve been here before: right in writing, and paid anyway.
The first disputed opening sets the precedent that governs every remaining opening on the job. Absorb the first unclaimed power supply into general conditions, and the next thirteen are yours by precedent. A component priced at zero at bid comes back at field-discovery rates with change-order markup after the frames are grouted — and by then the only argument left is with parties who each said no in writing before you did.
“Neither section claims it — and that is the finding, not a technicality. Nobody carries the circuit. What you do with that is yours; what you now have is the citation.”
Sync is a pricing input, not a coordination platform. It reads the specification set you already hold — no data entry, no model, no design-team buy-in — and returns:
What Sync promises: a component-level furnish-and-install reading of every electrified opening in the set, with the governing section cited for every claim and every unclaimed component named, delivered inside your bid window. It will not invent a section number. Where the documents don’t support an answer, it says so instead of producing one — a missing addendum stops every component it could touch, by rule.
What closing the gap looks like: fourteen power transfers at the stair and corridor openings, install claimed by no section, in no subcontractor’s quote — found before submission, priced as a visible line. After award, that same list is a change order argued against three subs who each correctly excluded it, with the first resolution governing the other thirteen.
The condition for success: you bring the current set — all three divisions, the schedule, every addendum issued. A read against a superseded set produces a wrong answer confidently, which is why the read states the set it ran on and stops where the set stops.
Send the spec set from a closed job. The read either names the component that appeared in no quote and no exclusion, or it documents that it found nothing. Both are answers, and it costs you one spec set to get one.