How the roll-up gate works
This tool grades every division on whether somebody is carrying it or something excludes it. It reads 20 divisions and rolls them into one verdict — the worst, never the average — then a gate that can only make it worse.
The 20 divisions
Any in-scope division reading UNCOVERED or ASSUMED forces UNCOVERED SCOPE, whatever the coverage percentage says. Coverage is reported for context and can never lift a verdict — 83% covered with one division nobody carries is not 83% safe, and the rest is the part that arrives as somebody else's change order. It releases the moment every division is owned or excluded.
Why: Thirteen of eighteen in-scope divisions are OWNED and two more are cleanly excluded, so coverage reads 83%. Two divisions carry $658,000 between them. Specialties has nobody on it and nothing excluding it. Electrical is worse: it is excluded in the proposal AND assigned to Voltage Partners, so two of the bidder's own documents disagree about $610,000, and whichever one is read first decides who pays.
A percentage cannot describe a gap. A division is owned, excluded or missing, and averaging the three produces a number that reads reassuring while somebody is uncovered. So coverage is reported and never scored, the gate fires on a single division whatever the percentage says, and fix-first follows dollars rather than row order — because UNCOVERED and ASSUMED are the same severity to the gate, and ranking them by state would name a $48,000 gap ahead of a $610,000 contradiction. Grades a division register you fill in, never a person. It reads no bid, no drawing, no subcontractor quote and no contract, prices nothing, allocates no risk between parties, and does not opine on whether an exclusion is enforceable — that is fact-specific and a question for your own counsel. Not legal advice.