TUNNELING AND UNDERGROUND EXCAVATION - GENERATOR OF LITIGATION
Contractors, in the present climate of cost escalation of labor, materials and equipment, general inflation and oppressive contract provisions are showing increasing reluctance to bid either a firm lump sum price or firm unit prices for major projects that will require more than a year or two to complete. But public agencies generally are forced by policy, regulations or legal authority to award contracts on competitive bids that call for a firm price commitment. One possible way of reducing litigation in such risky work as tunneling would be to include in firm price bid invitations bid items for specific changed conditions or other foreseeable contingencies. The prices quoted for these items would be paid only to the extent the changed conditions were encountered or the contingencies occurred.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Presented at the Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference, San Francisco, Calif., June 24-27, 1974.
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Corporate Authors:
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum Engineers
8307 Shaffer Parkway
Littleton, CO United States 80127-4012 -
Authors:
- Matthias, F T
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 1974
Media Info
- Pagination: p. 1163-66
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Serial:
- Volume: 2
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Construction; Construction projects; Contractors; Excavations; Legal factors; Subways; Tunneling
- Old TRIS Terms: Subway construction
- Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Law; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00129112
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Engineering Index
- Report/Paper Numbers: Proc Paper
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Feb 19 1981 12:00AM