The contract clause that says which document wins when drawings, specifications, schedules or models disagree.
An order of precedence is the clause in a contract that ranks the contract documents, so that when two of them disagree everyone knows which one governs. It typically ranks the agreement, the conditions, the specification, the drawings and, increasingly, the model.
Many contracts also say that documents are complementary: what is required by one is required as if by all, and the contractor must report any conflict it finds rather than choose.
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