Okaloosa County BOCC — February 18, 2014 — Underground Electric Manhole — reading text

friable or is releasing asbestos fibers into the air above current action levels established by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration. 5. Bid--The offer or proposal of a bidder submitted on the prescribed form setting forth the prices for the Work to be performed. 6. Bidding Documents--The Bidding Requirements and the proposed Contract Documents (including all Addenda issued prior to receipt of Bids). 7. Bidding Requirements--The Advertisement or Invitation to Bid, Instructions to Bidders, Bid security form, if any, and the Bid form with any supplements. 8. Bonds--Performance and payment bonds and other instruments of security. 9. Change Order--A document recommended by ENGINEER which is signed by CONTRACTOR and OWNER and authorizes an addition, deletion, or revision in the Work or an adjustment in the Contract Price or the Contract Times, issued on or after the Effective Date of the Agreement. 10. Claim--A demand or assertion by OWNER or CONTRACTOR seeking an adjustment of Contract Price or Contract Times, or both, or other relief with respect to the terms of the Contract. A demand for money or services by a third party is nota Claim. 11. Contract--The entire and integrated written agreement between the OWNER and CONTRAC- TOR concerning the Work. The Contract supersedes prior negotiations, representations, or agreements, whether written or oral. 12. Contract Documents--The Contract Docu- ments establish the rights and obligations of the parties and include the Agreement, Addenda (which pertain to the Contract Documents), CONTRACTOR’s Bid (including documentation accompanying the Bid and any post Bid documenta- tion submitted prior to the Notice of Award) when attached as an exhibit to the Agreement, the Notice to Proceed, the Bonds, these General Conditions, the Supplementary Conditions, the Specifications and the Drawings as the same are more specifically identified in the Agreement, together with all Written Amend- ments, Change Orders, Work Change Directives, Field Orders, and ENGINEER’s written interpreta- tions and clarifications issued on or after the Effective Date of the Agreement. Approved Shop Drawings and the reports and drawings of subsurface and physical conditions are not Contract Documents. Only printed or hard copies of the items listed in this paragraph are Contract Documents. Files in electronic media format of text, data, graphics, and the like that may be furnished by OWNER to CONTRACTOR are not Contract Documents. 13. Contract Price--The moneys payable by OWNER to CONTRACTOR for completion of the Work in accordance with the Contract Documents as stated in the Agreement (subject to the provisions of paragraph 11.03 in the case of Unit Price Work). GENERAL CONDITIONS OKALOOSA COUNTY WATER AND SEWER 00700-7 DATE: 5/13/2012 SECTION 00700 GENERAL CONDITIONS 14. Contract Times--The number of days or the dates stated in the Agreement to: (i) achieve Substan- tial Completion; and (ii) complete the Work so that it is ready for final payment as evidenced by ENGINEER’s written recommendation of final payment. 15. CONTRACTOR--The individual or entity with whom OWNER has entered into the Agreement. 16. Cost of the Work--See paragraph 11.01.A for definition. 17. Drawings--That part of the Contract Documents prepared or approved by ENGINEER which graphically shows the scope, extent, and character of the Work to be performed by CONTRACTOR. Shop Drawings and other CONTRACTOR submittals are not Drawings as so defined. 18. Effective Date of the Agreement--The date indicated in the Agreement on which it becomes effective, but ifno such date is indicated, it means the date on which the Agreement is signed and delivered by the last of the two parties to sign and deliver. 19. ENGINEER--The individual or entity named as such in the Agreement. 20. ENGINEER's Consultant--An individual or entity having a contract with ENGINEER to furnish services as ENGINEER’s independent professional associate or consultant with respect to the Project and who is identified as such in the Supplementary Conditions. 21. Field Order--A written order issued by ENGINEER which requires minor changes in the Work but which does not involve a change in the Contract Price or the Contract Times. 22. General Requirements--Sections of Division 1 of the Specifications. The General Requirements pertain to all sections of the Specifications. 23. Hazardous Environmental Condition--The presence at the Site of Asbestos, PCBs, Petroleum, Hazardous Waste, or Radioactive Material in such quantities or circumstances that may present a substantial danger to persons or property exposed thereto in connection with the Work. 24. Hazardous Waste--The term Hazardous Waste shall have the meaning provided in Section Russell Stephenson — Electrical Manhole Rehabilitation 1004 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 USC Section 6903) as amended from time to time. 25. Laws and Regulations; Laws or Regulat- ions--Any and all applicable laws, rules, regulations, ordinances, codes, and orders of any and all govern- mental bodies, agencies, authorities, and courts having jurisdiction. 26. Liens--Charges, security interests, or encumbrances upon Project funds, real property, or personal property. 27. Milestone--A principal event specified in the Contract Documents relating to an intermediate com- pletion date or time prior to Substantial Completion of all the Work. 28. Notice of Award--The written notice by OWNER to the apparent successful bidder stating that upon timely compliance by the apparent successful bidder with the conditions precedent listed therein, OWNER will sign and deliver the Agreement. 29. Notice to Proceed--A written notice given by OWNER to CONTRACTOR fixing the date on which the Contract Times will commence to run and on which CONTRACTOR shall start to perform the Work under the Contract Documents. 30. OWNER--The individual, entity, public body, or authority with whom CONTRACTOR has entered into the Agreement and for whom the Work is to be performed. 31. Partial Utilization--Use by OWNER of a substantially completed part of the Work for the pur- pose for which it is intended (or a related purpose) prior to Substantial Completion of all the Work. 32. PCBs--Polychlorinated biphenyls. 33. Petroleum--Petroleum, including crude oil or any fraction thereof which is liquid at standard conditions of temperature and pressure (60 degrees Fahrenheit and 14.7 pounds per square inch absolute), such as oil, petroleum, fuel oil, oil sludge, oil refuse, gasoline, kerosene, and oil mixed with other non-Hazardous Waste and crude oils. 34. Project--The total construction of which the Work to be performed under the Contract Documents GENERAL CONDITIONS OKALOOSA COUNTY WATER AND SEWER DATE: 5/13/2012 00700-8 SECTION 00700 GENERAL CONDITIONS Russell Stephenson — Electrical Manhole Rehabilitation may be the whole, or a part as may be indicated elsewhere in the Contract Documents. 35. Project Manual--The bound documentary information prepared for bidding and constructing the Work. A listing of the contents of the Project Manual, which may be bound in one or more volumes, is contained in the table(s) of contents. 36. Radioactive Material--Source, special nuclear, or byproduct material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 USC Section 2011 et seq.) as amended from time to time. 37. Resident Project Representative--The autho- rized representative of ENGINEER who may be assigned to the Site or any part thereof. 38. Samples--Physical examples of materials, equipment, or workmanship that are representative of some portion of the Work and which establish the standards by which such portion of the Work will be judged. 39. Shop Drawings--All drawings, diagrams, illustrations, schedules, and other data or information which are specifically prepared or assembled by or for CONTRACTOR and _— submitted by CONTRACTOR to illustrate some portion of the Work. 40. Site--Lands or areas indicated in the Contract Documents as being furnished by OWNER upon which the Work is to be performed, including rights- of-way and easements for access thereto, and such other lands furnished by OWNER which are desig- nated for the use of CONTRACTOR. 41. Specifications--That part of the Contract Documents consisting of written technical descriptions of materials, equipment, systems, stan- dards, and workmanship as applied to the Work and certain administrative details applicable thereto. 42. Subcontractor--An_ individual or entity having a direct contract with CONTRACTOR or with any other Subcontractor for the performance ofa part of the Work at the Site. 43. Substantial Completion--The time at which the Work (or a specified part thereof) has progressed to the point where, in the opinion of ENGINEER, the Work (or a specified part thereof) is sufficiently complete, in accordance with the Contract Documents, so that the Work (or a specified part thereof) can be utilized for the purposes for which it is intended. The terms “substantially complete” and “substantially completed” as applied to all or part of the Work refer to Substantial Completion thereof. 44, Supplementary Conditions--That part ofthe Contract Documents which amends or supplements these General Conditions. 45. Supplier--A manufacturer, _ fabricator, supplier, distributor, materialman, or vendor having a direct contract with CONTRACTOR or with any Subcontractor to furnish materials or equipment to be incorporated in the Work by CONTRACTOR or any Subcontractor. 46. Underground Facilities--All underground pipelines, conduits, ducts, cables, wires, manholes, vaults, tanks, tunnels, or other such facilities or attachments, and any encasements containing such facilities, including those that convey electricity, gases, steam, liquid petroleum products, telephone or other communications, cable television, water, wastewater, storm water, other liquids or chemicals, or traffic or other control systems. 47. Unit Price Work--Work to be paid for on the basis of unit prices. 48. Work--The entire completed construction or the various separately identifiable parts thereof required to be provided under the Contract Documents. Work includes and is the result of performing or providing all labor, services, and documentation necessary to produce such construction, and furnishing, installing, and incorporating all materials and equipment into such construction, all as required by the Contract Documents. 49. Work Change Directive--A written statement to CONTRACTOR issued on or after the Effective Date of the Agreement and signed by OWNER and recommended by ENGINEER ordering an addition, deletion, or revision in the Work, or responding to differing or unforeseen subsurface or physical conditions under which the Work is to be performed or to emergencies. A Work Change Directive will not change the Contract Price or the Contract Times but is evidence that the parties expect that the change ordered or documented by a Work Change Directive will be incorporated in a subse- quently issued Change Order following negotiations GENERAL CONDITIONS OKALOOSA COUNTY WATER AND SEWER 00700-9 DATE: 5/13/2012 SECTION 00700 GENERAL CONDITIONS by the parties as to its effect, if any, on the Contract Price or Contract Times. 50. Written Amendment--A written statement modifying the Contract Documents, signed by OWNER and CONTRACTOR on or after the Effective Date of the Agreement and normally dealing with the nonengineering or nontechnical rather than strictly construction-related aspects of the Contract Documents. 1.02 Terminology A. Intent of Certain Terms or Adjectives 1. Whenever in the Contract Documents the terms “as ordered,” “as directed,” “as required,” “as allowed,” “as approved,” or terms of like effect or import are used to authorize an exercise of professional judgement by the ENGINEER, or the adjectives “reasonable,” “suitable,” “acceptable,”