Agmt 2001 Montgomery Watson Americas Inc

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Contractor's Construction Management Manual to supplement City procedures. CONTRACTOR will prepare a brief project-specific Construction Management Plan containing the specific procedures to be followed for this project within 1 week after the City's Notice to Proceed. This will include chain of command and the roles and responsibilities for all project team members. It will also define the project tracking and reporting procedures. In addition to the Resident Engineer's daily construction progress reports, CONTRACTOR will prepare a brief Monthly Construction Status Report. 3) Preconstruction Services. The City will advertise the project, respond to and log bidders questions, and distribute addenda. (CONTRACTOR will assist the City in preparing addenda.) CONTRACTOR will assist the City in conducting apre-bid meeting. The City will receive and open bids. CONTRACTOR will also assist the City in performing reference checking for the low and next lowest bidder. The City will handle any bid protests or legal matters related to the bid. 4) Preconstruction Conference. CONTRACTOR shall attend the preconstruction conference using City's agenda that will address project administration and reporting procedures, team roles and responsibilities, and other procedures to ensure a responsive project. As appropriate partnering principles will be discussed to facilitate problem resolution and typed meeting minutes will be prepared and distributed by CONTRACTOR. 5) Continuous Construction Inspection. CONTRACTOR shall be on-site at all times when construction activities are in progress. CONTRACTOR shall document the construction contractor's daily work activities, including any extra work performed, through preparation of daily construction reports and logs. Logs will include compaction and concrete strength testing records and manhole and pipeline testing records. Still digital photos and video records will be taken of work progress to document the construction contractor's work. All hard copy photos will be annotated and stored in plastic sleeves in three ring binders. Digital photo images will be stored on media mutually agreed upon and located at City. Deficient work will be identified, tracked and corrected using CONTRACTOR's advisory notices and non-compliance reporting systems. Any uncompleted items will be included on preliminary or final punchlists. To supplement the on-site staffs' capabilities, CONTRACTOR will perform periodic specialty inspection for structural engineering'and periodic site visits to assist in field problem resolution. A total of seven visits outside the regularly scheduled weekly meetings are budgeted. CONTRACTOR shall provide City with 24 hour emergency contact telephone number for all field and Construction Management personnel. 6) Submittal Review. CONTRACTOR shall provide software and train City staff on the use of CS2 document tracking software. Using computerized document tracking software, CONTRACTOR will log in, track and process all submittals including shop drawings, catalog cuts and other items. CONTRACTOR will review each submittal for general conformance to the contract documents requirements and will stamp and sign each submittal package indicating the review status. Comments will be clearly marked on the submittals. The submittals will then be EXHIBIT A Page 2 of 6 AGRE\EXHIBITA.DOC (Word 6.0)