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Consultant will respond to a reasonable and appropriate Contractor requests for information and issue necessary clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents to Client as appropriate to the orderly completion of Contractor's work. Any orders authorizing variations from the Contract Documents will be made by the Owner. Consultant may recommend Work Change Directives, or Change Orders to the Owner and will review and make recornmendations related to Change Orders submitted or proposed by the Contractor. Consultant will evaluate and determine the acceptability of substitute or "or -equal" materials and equipment proposed by Contractor in accordance with the Contract Documents, but subject to the provisions of applicable standards of state or local government entities. Consultant will attend a Pre -Construction Conference prior to commencement of Work at the Site and attend up to 30 monthly progress meetings at the work site, which is anticipated to be up to 24 months. The last six months of the project duration, it is assumed that twice per month progress meetings will be scheduled. Consultant will prepare meeting agenda for each monthly progress meetings. Within one week of each respective progress meeting, Consultant will prepare and distribute meeting minutes that summarize the major discussion topics from the meeting. Consultant will provide on-site construction observation services during the construction phase. It is assumed that construction contract duration will be approximately 24 months and observation will occur throughout that time frame., Consultant representative will visit the site up to two hundred and fifty (250) times during the expected anticipated 24 -month construction duration. It is assumed that the first 3-4 months of the project will consist primarily of shop drawing review and will require minimal on-site observations to be made by the Consultant, approximately weekly per month. The remaining twenty (20) months of the project require the Consultant to be on-site on a more frequent basis since the project will be under active construction. Consultant assumes this 20 -month period of construction will require approximately two to three (2 — 3) visits per week per month to observe the work for conformance with the Contract Documents. Such visits and observations by the Consultant representative are not intended to be exhaustive or to extend to every aspect of Contractor's work in progress. Observations are to be limited to spot checking, selective measurement, and similar methods of general observation of the Work based on Consultant representative's exercise of professional judgment. Based on information obtained during such visits and such observations, Consultant's representative will evaluate whether Contractor's work is generally proceeding in accordance with the Contract Documents, and Consultant will keep Owner informed of the general progress of the Work. Consultant's inspector will prepare field reports of each site visit describing observations witnessed during site visits. The purpose of Consultant representative's site visits will be to enable Consultant to better carry out the duties and responsibilities specifically assigned in this Agreement, and to provide the OWNER a greater degree of confidence that the completed Work will conform in general to the Contract Documents. Consultant shall not, during such visits or as a result of such observations of Contractor's work in progress, supervise, direct, or have control over Contractor's work, nor shall the Consultant have authority over or Iresponsibility for the means, methods, techniques, equipment choice and usage, sequences, schedules, or procedures of construction selected by Contractor, for safety precautions and programs incident to Contractor's work, nor for any failure of Contractor to comply with laws and regulations applicable to Contractor's furnishing and performing the Work. K: IWPB_CirillGenerallBlackIFloridalIRCUlOslo WTP Construction Phase120210525 - Oslo CPSScope.doc Page.2 of 6 Indian River County Utilities Department