Forma Construction Company 10/29/2024

ARTICLE 9 PROJECT MANAGER'S STATUS DURING WORK 9.1 City's Representative 9.1.1 Project Manager will be City’s representative for a Job Order. The Project Manager and City’s Contract Administrator will be identified to the Contractor prior to commencement of the work. 9.2 Clarifications and Interpretations 9.2.1 Project Manager will issue with reasonable promptness such written clarifications or interpretations of the Detailed Scope of Work in the form of Drawings or otherwise as Project Manager may determine necessary, which will be consistent with or reasonably inferable from the overall intent of the Detailed Scope of Work. If Contractor believes that a written clarification or interpretation justifies an increase in the Job Order Price or Job Order Completion Time, Contractor may make a claim as provided in Article 10. 9.3 Rejecting Defective Work 9.3.1 The Project Manager will have the authority to disapprove or reject Work that is defective and will also have the authority to require special inspection or testing of the Work, whether or not the Work is fabricated, installed, or completed. 9.4 Not Used 9.5 Decisions on Disagreements 9.5.1 The Contract Administrator will be the initial interpreter of the Contract Documents while the Project Manager will be the initial interpreter of the requirements of the Job Order and judge of the acceptability of the Work. Additional disputes relating to the acceptability of the Work or the interpretation of the requirements of the Detailed Scope of Work or Contract Documents pertaining to the execution and progress of the Work shall be referred to the Contract Administrator in writing with a request for a formal decision in accordance with this section, which Contract Administrator will render in writing within a reasonable time. Written notice of each such dispute shall be delivered by the claimant to Contract Administrator within fifteen (15) calendar days of the occurrence after the event giving rise thereto and written supporting data will be submitted to Contract Administrator within forty-five (45) calendar days of such occurrence unless the Contract Administrator allows an additional period of time to ascertain more accurate data. 9.5.2 The rendering of a decision by Contract Administrator pursuant to section 9.6.1 with respect to any such dispute (except any which have been waived by the making or acceptance of final payment as provided in section 12.8) will be a condition precedent to any exercise by City or Contractor of such rights or remedies as either may otherwise have under the Contract Documents or at law in respect of any such dispute.