Whether or not it is an attempt to slip something past you is irrelevant. It is incumbant upon you to protect your interests both in the negotiation and the performance of the contract. The VM's have gotten used to dictating terms to the abstractors and having the abstractors roll over and ask for more.
If you are not willing to request them to clearly define the terms of their search order, nothing is going to change.
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