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8. Tenderers must complete the Schedule of Prices. No amendment will be permitted after the Tender has been submitted. No Tender will be considered complete unless a price and quantity has been affixed to each individual item in the Schedule of Prices, and the prices must be cast and totalled. An alternative price for a reinforced gangway (clause 36 of the Specification) should be given.
9. The Contractors' attention is called to all provisional and prime cost amounts specified which must be taken as strictly net and the Contractors in forming their estimates must if they require it add for profit. The Contractors must allow in their Tender for any further works which they may consider necessary additional to those specified or shown on the Drawings.
10. The Contractors may by permission of the Consulting Engineer suggest methods of which they have had experience for constructing the valve chambers and foundations other than those specified (i.e. sheet piling coffer dam) and may include a price in their Tender for the substituted method, subject to their having discussed the variation with the Consulting Engineer previous to lodging their Tender and received his approval of it.
II. Doctors, Nurses and Hospital accommodation are available in the Colony, but the Contractors must allow in their Tender for medical attendance upon European and native staff.
12. Tenderers must examine and consider all matters and all possible and probable contingencies affecting the execution, construction and completion of the work and all matters which may influence them in making their Tender and fixing the several prices in the Schedule of Prices.
13. As the Contractors are to be responsible for the method adopted for laying the pipes they must submit with their Tender the method of procedure proposed to be pursued, accompanied by memoranda and sketches.
14. No claim for additional payment, except as mentioned in the Contract, will be entertained, nor shall the Contractors be entitled to make any claim on the ground of any representation, or on the ground that the Contractors were supplied with information or given any promise or guarantee by any person (whether in the employ of the Government or of the Crown Agents or not), nor shall any failure on their part to obtain all necessary information for the purpose of making their Tender and fixing the several prices and rates in the Schedule of Prices relieve them from any risks or liabilities in connection with or for the due fulfilment of the Contract.
15. Should there be any doubt or obscurity as to the meaning of any of the Contract Documents or as to anything to be done or not to be done by the accepted Tenderer, or as to these Instructions, or as to any other matter or thing, the persons Tendering must set forth such doubt or obscurity in writing and submit the same, not later than one week before the date fixed for the delivery of Tenders, to the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
16. It is particularly requested that no Contractors will tender for the Works unless they are already experienced in the construction of public works of a similar or analagous kind and are provided with an ample quantity of suitable plant and appliances. When forwarding their Tender, Contractors are requested to state what Works of a similar character they have carried out, and to give the names of the Engineers under whose direction such work has been carried out.
17. Neither the Director of Public Works nor any member or servant of the Crown Agents, other than the Chief Engineer, has any authority to make any repre- sentation or explanation to persons Tendering as to the meaning of the Contract, Specification, Schedule of Prices, Drawings or other Documents, or as to anything to be done or not to be done by the accepted Tenderer for the Works, or as to these Instructions, or as to any other matter or thing, so as to bind the Crown Agents or bind or fetter the judgment or discretion of the Engineer in the exercise by him of his powers and duties under the Contract.
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