Imagine putting this note on an engineering set of “construction-ready” drawings and calling it a day. Seems to be something that is creeping into the industry at the moment, leaving ambiguity between the client and contractor as to who funds this, the client in the end.
I understand the desire for transfer of risk away from the design team, but this just costs more overall because there is now two sets of design liabilities that must be covered, and it may lead to additional design by the contractor (and their subcontractors) that as assumed to be handled by the primary design team.