It's absolutely necessary. In any bid, depending on the complexity of the bid—the bid documents are hundreds of pages long—if you don't put something in the specifications in that bid, then many other issues will oversee that. Then the bidders will say, “That was our best intention, but actually we focused on timeliness, on cost, on technical changes, and other things. We didn't get around to that.” There are huge pressures on bidders to complete a job on time and under budget, as you know. Only if there's a clear expectation that community benefits will be part of their bid and part of their practice will we actually elevate this culture within the construction industry as a whole.
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