Guide Specifications for Civil Works: Dredging1947 - 49 pages |
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46 Delete inapplicable amount and/or appropriate approved areas Article available funds bench mark bid form bidder blasting boulders calendar days channel CHARACTER OF MATERIALS Chief of Engineers completion Contract Drawings contract price Contracting Officer Contractor cost of removal cost thereof COVERED BY CONTRACT cubic yards damage Delete inapplicable provisions deposit determined dredges show Eng Form 127 equipment Examination and Acceptance excavated exceed excess execution explosives furnishing all plant Government horsepower inspection inspector laborers and mechanics ledge rock LIQUIDATED DAMAGES material actually removed necessary Note obstructions opening bids operations overcuts overlying material paragraph SC paragraph SW-1 paragraph TP-2 payment bond performance bond plane of reference prescribed price per cubic project depth prosecute quantity of material quired rate of progress receipt of notice schedule scows shoaling Side Slopes specified in paragraph Subcontractors TP-1 WORK COVERED tractor U. S. Engineer Office U. S. Standard Form unit prices yard for dredging
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Page 6 - ... supplies as have been mined or produced in the United States, and only such manufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been manufactured in the United States...
Page 19 - WORK (a) The Contracting Officer may order the Contractor in writing to suspend all or any part of the work for such period of time as he may determine to be appropriate for the convenience of the Government.
Page 19 - Unless such suspension unreasonably delays the progress of the work and causes additional expense or loss to the contractor, no increase in contract price will be allowed. In the case of suspension of all or any part of the work for an unreasonable length of time causing additional expense or less, not due to the fault or negligence of the contractor, the contracting officer shall make an equitable adjustment in the contract price and modify the contract accordingly.
Page 38 - Columbia, and which requires or involves the employment of mechanics and/or laborers shall contain a provision stating the minimum wages to be paid various classes of laborers and mechanics which shall be based upon the wages that will be determined by the Secretary of Labor to be prevailing for the corresponding classes of laborers and mechanics employed on projects of a character similar to the contract work in the city, town, village, or other civil subdivision of the State in which the work is...
Page 14 - ... materials to be encountered, the character of equipment and facilities needed preliminary to and during the prosecution of the work, the general and local conditions, and all other matters which can in any way affect the work under this contract.
Page 4 - The right is reserved, as the interest of the Government may require, to revise or amend the specifications or drawings or both prior to the date set for opening bids. Such revisions and amendments, if any, will be announced by an amendment or amendments to this Invitation for Bids.
Page 17 - Officer, after date of commencement of work, prepare and submit to the Contracting Officer for approval a practicable schedule, showing the order in which the Contractor proposes to carry on the work, the date on which he wilt start the several salient features (including procurement of materials, plant and equipment) and the contemplated dates for completing the same.
Page 18 - Officer under this provision shall be grounds for determination by the Contracting Officer that the Contractor Is not prosecuting the work with such diligence as will Insure completion within the time specified. Upon such determination the Contracting Officer may terminate the Contractor's right to proceed with the work, or any separable part thereof, in accordance with the clause of the contract entitled "Termination for Default — Damages for Delay — Time Extensions.
Page 14 - ... those bearing upon transportation, disposal, handling and storage of materials, availability of labor, water, electric power, roads and uncertainties of weather, river stages, tides, or similar physical conditions at the site, the...
Page 15 - ... responsibility for estimating properly the difficulty or cost of successfully performing the work. The Government assumes no responsibility for any understanding or representations made by any of its officers or agents during or prior to the...