Commissions construction work and pays for completed and accepted results under contract.

— Payment obligations and statutory timing requirements.
— Statutory holdbacks and exposure to lien claims.
— Participation in statutory adjudication processes, where applicable.

— Reasonableness or fairness of price.
— Quality, productivity, or performance benchmarks.
— Cost-per-unit, labour norms, or pricing models.

Law provides no reference price, benchmark, or standard to assess whether a quoted price is “high” or “low”.

Price reflects the extent to which risk is transferred to the contractor versus retained by the client.

— Risk transferred through fixed pricing, warranties, guarantees, and defined acceptance criteria.

— Risks retained due to vague scope, unclear acceptance, or informal or undocumented changes.

Lower contract price typically correlates with higher retained risk and increased uncertainty.

Strong dependence on contract clarity, scope definition, and enforceability of acceptance and change mechanisms.

Comparing offers by price alone without accounting for differences in risk allocation.

Statutory adjudication (where applicable) · Lien resolution · Court proceedings.

— Provincial construction and builders’ lien legislation.
— CanLII — owner–contractor pricing dispute jurisprudence.