A scoping aid for schematic and design development. Two habits change outcomes: scope the deep version and price it separately before the budget meeting, and capture soft costs at the measure level as you go, because reconstructing an eligible cost basis at submission is where fee-recoverable work quietly disappears. Four measure categories, each with a “what good looks like” column, a soft-cost table with allocation basis and documentation to keep, the incremental cost concept for new construction, and screening questions before the package is set. A checked box builds the candidate list; it is not an eligibility determination.
