The concepts of “equals” and “substitutions” are very often misapplied by owners and designers. Unless corrected, they almost always automatically place “equal” products and submissions immediately into the “substitution” category in order to force the contractor either to forget using the product (reject the submission) or to secure some kind of credit or other “reimbursement,” if they decide that they can actually live with the product.
Reasons for rejection range from an honest objection to the product’s being proposed for some otherwise understandable problem to the idea that the designer’s office simply doesn’t want to spend time reviewing any products that it had not specified.
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