GENERAL55093

• Permit No: C1981048
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 6/3/1999
• Doc Name: PROJECT NAME TRINIDAD BASIN MINE PROJECT
• Permit Index Doc Type: RECLAMATION PROJECTS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

The Contractor shall perform its duties hereunder as an independent contractor and not as an employee.
Neither the Contractor nor any agent or employee oft he Contractor shall be or shall be deemed to be an
agent or employee of the State. Contractor shall pay when due all required employment taxes and income
tax withholding, shall provide and keep in force workers compensations (and show proof of such insurance)
and unemployment compensation insurance int he amounts required by law and shall be solely responsible
for the acts of the Contractor its employees and agents.
Article 20. SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE WORK
The Contractor shall keep a competent and reliable superintendent on the job at aA times that labor is being
performed. The superintendent, in the Contractor's absence from the site, shall stand in the stead of the
Contractor and any authoritative directions given to the superintendent shall be as binding
as 'rf given to the Contractor.
The Contrector shall give efficient supervision to the work, using his best skill and attention. He shall
carefully study and compare all Drawings, Specifications and other instructions and shall at once report to
the Principle Representative any error, inconsistency or omission which he may discover, but he shall not
be liable to the Principle Representative for any damage resulting from any errors or deficiencies in the
Contract Documents or other instructions by the Principle Representative.
The Contractor shall see that the work is carried out in accordance with the Contract Documents and in a
thorough and first-class manner in every respect. The Contractor shall establish all lines, levels, grades,
and marks necessary to facilitate the operations of all concerned in such Contractors work. He shall lay out
the work in a manner satisfactory the Principle Representative.
Article 21. SUBCONTRACTORS
The Contractor shall submit to the Principle Representative, acomplete list of subcontractors for the project,
including the name of the proposed subcontractor and a description of the work to be subcontracted. The
Contractor shall not, without prior written approval of the Principle Representative, enter into any subcontract
covering any part of the work covered by this contract.
If at any time the Principle Representafrve determines that any subcontractor is incompetent or undesirable,
he shall notify the Contractor accordingly in writing and the Contractor shall take immediate steps for
cancellation of the subcontract.
Article 22. RELATIONS OF CONTRACTOR AND SUBCONTRACTOR
The Contractor agrees to bind each subcontractor to the terms of these General Conditions and to the
requirements of the drawings and spec'rfications, and any amendments or change orders, and also atl the
other Contract Documents, so far as applicable to the work of such subcontractor, unless specially noted
to the contrary.
Nothing contained in the contract shall create any contractual relationship between any subcontractor and
the Principle Representative. Approval by the Principle Representative to any subcontract or any provisions
thereof shall not be construed to be a determination of the acceptability of any subcontract price, or of any
amount paid under subcontract or to relieve the Contractor of any responsibility for performing all work
covered by this contract.
The Contractor shall be fully responsible to the Principal Representative for the acts and omissions of his
subcontractors and of persons either directly or indirectly employed by them. All instructions or orders in
respect to work being done by subcontractors shall be given to the Contractor.
Subcontracting by subcontractors shall be subject to the above requirements.
Colorado Division of Minerals & Geology GENERAL BID SPECIFICATIONS
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