340 requirements, three readers, one missed evidence requirement.
The specification arrives as a PDF with appendices, and the requirements are spread across running text, tables and references to applicable standards. Each reader marks by instinct what will take effort and what the portfolio covers. What ends up costing money is the one requirement with an evidence obligation that was never priced into the quotation.
340requirementsThey are scattered across the specification in running text, tables and references.
3readersThree engineers split the document between them by chapter.
26evidence requirementsThey call for a test certificate, a declaration or a sample approval.
4days of readingThat is how long the first pass takes before costing begins.
The 60% cut in reading time is won in the first pass, because every requirement that needs evidence is already flagged there with its page number.
The 60% reduction in reading time is this agent's headline figure. 26 evidence requirements among 340 is a typical ratio for a specification of this size; the ratio was not counted.