Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. The Contractor shall provide all necessary labor, equipment, materials, and services for the full and satisfactory completion of the contract. The Contractor shall ensure that qualified supervisory personnel are assigned to and are completely familiar with the work. 2. The Contractor shall complete the contract as a general contractor and not as an employee of the Town. The Contractor shall comply with all local, state, and federal regulations, including minimum wage standards, unemployment compensation, worker's compensation, and solid waste collection, transportation, and disposal. The Contractor shall also be responsible for the cost and effort to acquire all permits and licenses needed for the performance of the contract. The Contractor shall ensure that any subcontractors used in the contract are approved by the Town in writing prior to use and comply with all appropriate sections of the contract. 3. Notwithstanding the status of the Contractor and any approved subcontractor as independent contractors, the Town shall have the right to require re-assignment of any employee of the Contractor or any approved subcontractor whom the Town Mayor, in his/her sole discretion, deems incompetent, negligent, insubordinate, or careless, or whose continued employment in the work is deemed contrary to the public interest, safety, and welfare. 4. The Contractor shall maintain all equipment used in the work reasonably clean and free of unpleasant odors and ensure that any subcontractor complies with the same requirement. 5. The Contractor shall maintain an office within one hundred (100) miles of the Town of Hurt Town Office. The office shall be manned by sufficient personnel to accommodate complaints and other communications. The hours for the office shall be the same as those for the activities of the contract. The Contractor shall provide a toll-free phone number during office hours and an after-hours emergency phone number, for use by the Town's Public Works Department 6. The Contractor shall assign a local manager who will be responsible for ensuring that all requirements of the contract are met. The manager shall be assigned a vehicle and cellular phone. 7. The Contractor shall at all times be aware that the prompt and proper performance of the work in the contract is critical to the public health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the Town. The Contractor therefore agrees that any problem that causes the disruption of any service shall be cause for the Contractor to take any and all reasonable actions necessary to restoration of service within twenty-four (24) hours/next day. Failure of the Contractor to comply with this provision shall be a breach of the contract and cause for immediate termination of the contract by the Town, with the collection of the bond(s) by the Town for expenses and other damages caused by such breach of contract. 8. All activities of the Contractor shall be subject to the inspection of the Town Mayor or his/her designee. Any determination of unsatisfactory Contractor performance shall be followed by written notification of the Contractor. The Contractor shall ensure that the unsatisfactory performance is corrected within seven (7) days. a. Failure of the Contractor to resolve the problem{s) within seven, (7) days shall result in the Town having the right to correct the problem and collect the cost(s) for such correction from the Contractor's bond(s); or b. The Town may opt to provide the Contractor with written notification of another seven (7) days to resolve the problem(s). Failure to do so shall provide the Town with the right to terminate the contract and collect the bond(s).