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Departmental
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Revision of estimate.
or where, on to proceed as bost suits him; account of climate, or the difficulties in- cidental to newly opened countries, risks have to be taken which cannot be estimated with precision, then the preference would usually be for the departmental system.
6. By the departmental system is meant in effect that the Government becomes its own contractor, taking upon itself the risks in- separable from the undertaking but avoiding the payment of the profit which a contractor
In prac- would demand to cover these risks. tice the success of the system depends on the Government being able to entrust the control of the work to an officer of its own, pos9068- ing the qualifications and experience of the Chief Agent of a large contractor, and to vest in that officer the same large measure of discretion as such a contractor gives to
his agent.
7.The work having been sanctioned and the system of construction determined, it may, before beginning work, be necessary for the Consulting Engineer to revise his estimates, in order that the Secretary of state and the Colonial Government may know as exactly as possible the expenditure to which they are committed. If a contract is to be let this will naturally Ladene after the receipt of tenders, but before deciding on the acceptance of
If the work is to be done
any one of them.
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