What happens when an agency takes construction bids on what the winning bidder comes to view as an incomplete design? Change orders, claims and litigation, even on an award-winning project such as a rail line in Silicon Valley. On Aug. 6, the project's owner and one of its contractors plan to begin arbitrating the first $1.5-million slice of a complex $16-million claim that once involved 11 separate lawsuits, now two, in Santa Clara County Superior Court, Calif.
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