By others
"By others" is a note a bidder places against work it is not pricing, indicating the work is expected to be performed by some other party.
Also written as work by others, BO.
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Reviewed by Eric Collin · President and Founder of Firmo Construction, 20+ years in preconstruction and bid evaluation
It functions as an exclusion. The bidder is telling you the item is outside its price and, unlike a bare NIC, implying that somebody else is expected to carry it.
That implication is usually where the trouble is, because "others" is rarely named. The mechanical bidder marking roof curbs "by others" may mean the roofer, the general contractor, or the equipment supplier. Until one of them has priced it in writing, the item belongs to nobody, and it is a scope gap wearing a reassuring label.
The practical handling is to treat "by others" and NIC identically at first — both mean not in this price — and then resolve who does carry the work rather than accepting the note at face value. The reassurance in the phrasing is exactly what makes it easier to skip over than a blunt exclusion.
- NIC vs by others
What is the difference between NIC and "by others" on a bid?
- NIC (not in contract)
NIC — "not in contract" — is the notation a bidder uses to mark work it has deliberately excluded from its price.
- Exclusions
Exclusions are the items a bidder states are not included in its price.
- Scope gap
A scope gap is work required by the project that no bidder included in its price, because every bidder assumed someone else was carrying it.
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