SpecsIntact is an acronym for "Specifications Kept Intact." It is an automated specifications processing system for preparing certain government facility construction projects using standard master specifications, called Master Text or Masters, supplied by each of three government agencies.
SpecsIntact was initially developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and designed for use by engineers, architects, specification writers, project managers and construction managers. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) and the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has also adopted SpecsIntact as their standard specifications system, greatly facilitating the effort to standardize construction specifications throughout these agencies. The Masters are marked up in SpecsIntact's application of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) format.
Master Specifications are divided into Divisions containing groups of Sections, and key elements within the Sections are annotated with a SpecsIntact tagging scheme that uses angle brackets as tag delimiters. This tagging scheme is a descriptive markup system that separates and identifies the logical elements of the Section text.
For detailed information on the SpecsIntact Editor's tagging
system, read SpecsIntact Tagging Structure.