Important Information about This Geoenvironmental Services Proposal is a proposal-insert sheet that points out a number of key issues to clients. It stresses that standard practices and guides, such as those issued by ASTM, cannot possibly consider the innumerable project-specific variables geoenvironmental professionals need to evaluate in order to develop a scope of service best suited for a given client and given engagement. As such, the performance of the professionals selected to perform geoenvironmental services makes all the difference. The client needs to select those professionals with care, the insert sheet advises, and should meet with them to discuss the project and alternative approaches to it, and to create the scope of service. The insert sheet also addresses such issues as third-party reliance, the potential for report misinterpretation, problems created by “overreliance” on a report’s recommendations, the impact of change, the need to “expect the unexpected,” and the potential for cross-contamination, among others.

Only GBA-Member Firms are permitted to use the document as an insert sheet. Others may use it as a model for development of their own advisory document."

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