Standard Bidding Document Smaller Works Contract SBDSC

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Standard Bidding DocumentSmaller Works Contract
(SBDSC)

• Suitable for unit rate/lump sum
• Less than us 10 million
• Simple format
• Can be adapted easily for NCB and lump sum

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Instructions to bidders

• Works description and completion time
• Eligibility and capability qualifications
• Procedure for clarifications
• Bid preparation - format, copies
• Bid submission procedures
• Language
• Pricing and currencies
• Price adjustment provisions (if any)

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Instructions to bidders (cont.)

• Modification and withdrawal
• Bid securities, sureties, etc.
• Closing date
• Opening time, date, place
• Corrections
• Bid evaluation criteria and procedures
• Domestic preferences
• Bid validity
• Procedures for contract award

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Currency Payment provisions

• Civil works - bill of quantities
• Borrowers currency, with portions payable in
  foreign currency
• If so, protect foreign currency component
• Civil works - lump sum contracts
• Sum of amounts in local currency and foreign
  currencies
• Contract
• expressed in the borrowers currency but protect
  foreign currency components

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SBDSCConditions of contract

• Organization in five chapters
• General
• Time control
• Quality control
• Cost control
• Finishing the contract

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SBDSCConditions of contract (cont.)
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SBDSCConditions of contract (cont.)

• Contract can be entered with foreign contractor
  (currencies)
• Normally provides for price adjustment
• Bill of quantity contract or lump sum
• Sharing of risks
• Provides for a project manager to supervise works
  and administer the contract

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SBDSCConditions of contract (cont.)

• Some specific features of the contract conditions
• Adjudicator
• Reviews project managers decisions contested
  by contractor
• Appointed at time of contract signing
• Adjudicators decision final unless referred
  to arbitration within 28 days by either party
• Time control
• Acceleration/extension
• Liquidated damages with ceiling

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SBDSCConditions of contract (cont.)

• Compensation events
• Not reflected in the original pricing of the
  contract, e.g. unforeseen ground conditions or
  constraints from utility companies
• Entitle contractor to additional payments
• Adjustment decided by project manager
• If disputed, adjudicator acts
• If parties agree, amount paid
• If not, can be referred to arbitration

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SBDSCConditions of contract (cont.)

• Termination for fundamental breach of contract
• On employers side, essentially delayed payment
• On contractors side, major delays and other
  similar defaults
• Final payment rapidly settled