1999-08-20_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - C1981017

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13. PRIME CONTRACTOR If several CONTRACTORS propose to join together to perform construction or improvement of existing roads may be required. the work,the OWNER will recognize only one bonded prime Access roads used or constructed by the CONTRACTOR CONTRACTOR,who will enter into a purchase order contract shall be maintained and restored to pre-existing or better with the OWNER, and who will subcontract the work to such conditions. others as are required to perform the work, unless a "joint venture"arrangement between CONTRACTORS satisfactory The CONTRACTOR shall confine his access roads, to the OWNER has been executed. In this case, the "joint equipment, the storage of materials and the operation of his venture" shall designate a Superintendent with whom the workmen to the immediate vicinity of the work sites and shall OWNER can communicate and who will supervise the work not unreasonably encumber the premises with his materials and be fully responsible for the performance thereof. and equipment Caution shall be exercised at all times to avoid blocking roads or in any other way interfering with operations 14. SUBCONTRACTORS by others or presenting a hazard to personnel, equipment, or to the public. The CONTRACTOR shall not,without prior written approval of the OWNER, enter into any subcontract covering any part of The CONTRACTOR shall provide such temporary barricades, the work covered by this contract. An approved verbal request fences, or warning signs as may be necessary to make to subcontract shall be followed in writing with the name of the temporary or permanent roads safe by night as well as by day. proposed subcontractor and a description of the work to be He shall at all times have a sufficient number of watchmen , subcontracted. flagmen, and warning lights to protect traffic where it is interfered with by his operations,where his trucks enter or leave If at any time the OWNER determines that any subcontractor public roads, or where work is being done adjacent to such is incompetent or undesirable, he shall notify the roads. CONTRACTOR accordingly and the CONTRACTOR shall take immediate steps for cancellation of the subcontract. 18. PERMITS, LICENSES AND REGULATIONS Nothing contained in the purchase order contract shall create Permits and licenses required for prosecution of the work shall any contractual relationship between any subcontractor and the be procured and paid for by the CONTRACTOR. OWNER. Approval by the OWNER to any subcontract or any provisions thereof shall not be construed to be a determination 19. ROYALTIES AND PATENTS of the acceptability of any subcontract price, or of any amount paid under subcontract or to relieve the CONTRACTOR of any The CONTRACTOR shall pay all royalties and license fees. He responsibility for performing this purchase order contract. shall defend all suits or claims for infringement of any patent rights and shall save the State of Colorado harmless from loss Subcontracting by subcontractors shall be subject to the above on account thereof. requirements. 20. PROJECT PUBLICITY 15. SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE WORK The OWNER will be sole provider of information about the The CONTRACTOR shall keep a competent and reliable project work to area residents, and special districts, county, superintendent on the job at all times that labor is being state, and federal agencies, and individuals from the media. performed. The superintendent, in the CONTRACTOR'S Any contract with these groups by the contractor must be absence from the site, shall stand in the stead of the cleared through the OWNER. CONTRACTOR and any authoritative directions given to the superintendent shall be as binding as if given to the 21. HISTORICAL PRESERVATION CONTRACTOR. Areas adjacent to the mine sites often contain related artifacts 16. WORK BY OTHERS and structures, such as buildings, tipples, ore houses, headframes and foundations that may be historically significant The work site is located in a mining area and mining or other Care shall be exercised to avoid any disturbances to these construction activities may be occurring at the same time as the structures and artifacts, in order to preserve their integrity. work proposed under this contract. It shall be the Existing structures shall not be used as load-bearing devices. CONTRACTOR'S responsibility to coordinate his work with those of the landowners, mining companies or other 22. UTILITIES CONTRACTOR'S on the site. Utilities, both underground and above-ground, may exist which The CONTRACTOR shall, without charge, permit the could affect construction work covered under this contract. landowner, mining companies, and such other The CONTRACTOR is responsible for determining the nature CONTRACTORS to use the roads and other facilities and locations of any and all utilities which could affect constructed or improved by the CONTRACTOR for the construction work covered under this contract. The horizontal contract work; provided, that such usage shall in no way and vertical locations of utilities may vary. The CONTRACTOR interfere with the contract work of the CONTRACTOR. is responsible for excavation and equipment movement without damage to utilities. The CONTRACTOR assumes all 17. ACCESS AND WORKING AREA responsibility for damages to any utilities he causes under this contract. Access to the sites or to the vicinity of sites is by public roads and private roads as shown on the drawings or as may be 23. ELECTRICAL POWER AND POTABLE AND located in the field. Some sites may not have adequate access CONSTRUCTION WATER roads for CONTRACTOR'S methods or equipment and