When a subcontractor issues an RFI in team, can they be given a "draft" status so as not to take new RFI Number? A prospect was imagining a scenario where a Sub would raise an RFI #5 but the GC raises one to the Architect as #7 so then the Architect gets #7 before they get #5 and that could cause some confusion. They mentioned another software does a draft type status for Sub issued RFIs.
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I get the related item concept which we are currently testing. And I agree about the attachments coming over. That needs to happen sooner than later. Can I ask how you are handling the responses from the Owner? Are you sending the formal RFI response out to your subs and counting on them to close the original Sub RFI? Are you copying the response from the Architect into the Sub RFI and then responding?
We've worked out a similar workflow where the sub creates a Sub-RFI type and then we would create a related item from that. It works well. If only there was an option to copy the SubRFI attachments to the new RFI . . . See suggestion MVPM-I-245. . .
We utilize INT-RFI for our subs and Vendors. We set these to come to the Project Manager to either answer or make a related formal RFI that is in turn issued to the A/E. We keep the INT-RFI`s private so as not to confuse people with the informal RFI`s. Works pretty sweet as the related RFI`s are accessible from each one.