Specifications include, but are not limited to: A. Project Management. I. On-Site Management and Construction Phase Communication Procedures. The Project Management Consultant (“Consultant”) shall provide and maintain a management team on the Project site to provide construction/ contract administration, to be the Town’s representative, and to establish and implement coordination and communication procedures among Consultant, the Town, the design engineer and the Town’s selected construction contractor (“Construction Contractor”). Construction observations for the Project shall be performed by Consultant personnel with sufficient expertise to determine whether the construction is proceeding in accordance with the construction contract documents included or incorporated in the Town’s Invitation for Bids for the Project (“Contract Documents”). Construction observations shall be under the direct supervision of an engineer(s) registered in the State of Arizona and qualified to perform this work. Consultant shall comply with and have sufficient trained personnel to meet the construction schedule and man-hour requirements. II. Construction Administration Procedures. Consultant, with input from the Town, shall establish and implement procedures for: expediting and processing requests for information (“RFIs”); and review and approval of shop drawings, material and equipment sample submittals, contract schedule adjustments, change orders, material and equipment substitution requests and payment requests. Consultant shall establish and maintain logs for tracking all relevant information related to the above. Consultant shall maintain daily job reports and submit to the Town on a weekly basis. As the Town’s representative at the construction site, Consultant shall be the party to whom RFIs, submittals, schedule adjustments, substitution requests, test results, change order requests and payment applications shall be submitted. Consultant shall process the requests and forward them to the Fountain Hills Public Works Director with a recommendation for approval or denial. After approval or denial, Consultant shall notify the Construction Contractor of the Public Works Director’s decision. III. Construction Inspection and Observation. Consultant shall establish and implement a program to observe and monitor the quality of the construction to ensure the Project is completed per the Contract Documents. The purpose of the program shall be to identify defects and deficiencies in the work of the Construction Contractor. While Consultant shall not be responsible for construction means, methods, techniques, sequences, and procedures employed by the Construction Contractor in the performance of its contract, Consultant shall nevertheless advise the Town whether the construction means, methods, techniques, sequences or procedures will delay the work or cause a defect in the work. Consultant may, from time to time, issue work directives or field orders that consist of minor changes in the work not involving an adjustment in the contract sum or the contract time, but which are consistent with the overall intent of the Contract Documents. Consultant is authorized to reject work and transmit to the Town and Construction Contractor a notice of nonconforming work when the work does not conform to the requirements of the Contract Documents. Consultant is not authorized as a part of this service to change, revoke, alter, enlarge, relax or release any requirements of the Contract Documents or to approve or accept any portion of the work not performed in accordance with the Contract Documents. In the event the Construction Contractor fails to correct deficient work, Consultant shall issue a stop work order on behalf of the Town until such deficiencies are corrected. No action taken by Consultant shall relieve the Construction Contractor from its obligation to perform its work in strict conformity with the Contract Documents and in strict conformity with all applicable laws, rules and regulations.
