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Construction Codes and Permits. The Professional’s Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by the, the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Professional as a reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided for. Submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approval. Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings to the Department’s Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the 90 percent final design stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications into the Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s construction field inspections enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the design and siting requirements. Identify and confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the construction contractual requirements. Establish the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction quality control and material testing services. Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract. Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project will be performed by the Department by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scope. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design drawings, specifications, and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents to the State/Client Agency and the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director as required for posting. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction Contractor, the Construction Contractor recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version of MICHSPEC standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronically; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction Contractor’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLE

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Construction Codes and Permits. The ProfessionalProfessional firm’s final design Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with With Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Barrier- Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. The Professional shall advise and assist the Department with decisions on the Americans With Disabilities Act accessibility compliance. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, wastewater systems design, storm water management, environmental engineering design code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by the, the Department of Licensing State Police, Fire Marshal Division, and Regulatory Affairsthe Department of Labor and Economic Growth, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, Codes and Fire Safety and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code design code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Department and are not the responsibility of the Professional. Any Project design code compliance and plan review approval fees paid by the Professional firm on the behalf of the Department will be compensated by the Department to the Professional firm as a an authorized reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided forexpense item (See Appendix 4) in this Contract. Submit Present and submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate wastewater systems design, storm water management, environmental engineering plans/drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approvalapproval (See attached Appendix 4, Authorized Reimbursable Tests and $ Expenses). Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings will be submitted to the Department’s Department of Management and Budget, Facilities Administration, Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the final design, 90 percent final design completion submittal stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate applicable Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability Energy Code requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications into the Contract Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s construction field inspections enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the design and siting requirements. Identify and confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the construction contractual requirements. Establish the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction quality control and material testing services. Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract. Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project will be performed by the Department by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scope. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design drawings, specifications, and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents to the State/Client Agency and the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director as required for posting. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction Contractor, the Construction Contractor recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version of MICHSPEC standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronically; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction Contractor’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLETask

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Construction Codes and Permits. The ProfessionalProfessional firm’s final design Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with With Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Barrier- Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. The Professional shall advise and assist the Department with decisions on the Americans With Disabilities Act accessibility compliance. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, architectural and/or engineering design code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by the, the Department of Licensing State Police, Fire Marshal Division, and Regulatory Affairsthe Department of Labor and Economic Growth, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, Codes and Fire Safety and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code design code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Department and are not the responsibility of the Professional. Any Project design code compliance and plan review approval fees paid by the Professional firm on the behalf of the Department will be compensated by the Department to the Professional firm as a an authorized reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided forexpense item (See Appendix 4) in this Contract. Submit Present and submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate architectural and/or engineering plans/drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approvalapproval (See attached Appendix 4, Authorized Reimbursable Tests and $ Expenses). Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings will be submitted to the Department’s Department of Management and Budget, Facilities Administration, Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the final design, 90 percent final design completion submittal stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate applicable Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability Energy Code requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications into the Contract Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s construction field inspections enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the design and siting requirements. Identify and confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the construction contractual requirements. Establish the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction quality control and material testing services. Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract. Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project will be performed by the Department by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scope. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design drawings, specifications, and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents to the State/Client Agency and the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director as required for posting. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction Contractor, the Construction Contractor recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version of MICHSPEC standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronically; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction Contractor’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLETask

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Construction Codes and Permits. The Professional’s Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by the, the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Professional as a reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided for. Submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approval. Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings to the Department’s Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the 90 percent final design stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications into the Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s construction field inspections enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the design and siting requirements. Identify and confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the construction contractual requirements. Establish the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction quality control and material testing services. Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract. Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project will be performed by the Department by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scope. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design drawings, specifications, and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents to the State/Client Agency and the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director as required for posting. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value qualified construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction Contractor, the Construction Contractor recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version of MICHSPEC standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronically; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction Contractor’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLE(1) Provide instructions, and/or design interpretations and clarifications for design details within five (5) business days of the Construction Contractor’s request, record same, in writing; and (2) Revise the Professional’s original final design architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications as appropriate to the Project. Marking and initialing of drawings is not an acceptable form of written instruction. Bulletin Authorization: Request authorization from the Project Director to issue each individual Bulletin. The Professional’s Bulletin Authorization request will: (1) Identify the problem requiring the change; (2) Describe clearly if such problem arises from the architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions; (3) Identify the anticipated design cost and the estimated construction cost to implement the change(s); and (4) Describe clearly in the Professional’s opinion which part, if any, of the design and/or construction costs are the obligation of the State, the Professional or the Construction Contractor. Include a Contract Modification request for any work outside the Project. Identify any anticipated Project design or construction schedule implications. Bulletins: All reproduction costs for design interpretations and clarifications and Bulletins related to the Professional’s architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Describe, by Bulletin, design revisions necessary to correct the architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions, to address previously unidentified on-site field design conditions, to reduce costs and for all other matters approved by the Department involving costs or credit to the State. Postponement of action on items to accumulate multi-item Bulletins is not permitted. Prepare and issue Bulletins within ten (10) business days of receipt of the Department’s authorization. Bulletins shall be in such form and detail as the Department may prescribe. The Professional shall incorporate all accepted Bulletin revisions or design interpretations into the appropriate originals of all applicable Contract Documents. Such revised drawings and specifications shall be issued as part of Bulletins. Each Bulletin shall prescribe a time schedule for the Construction Contractor’s response. Provide one electronic copy of each Bulletin to the Department and distribute as the Department may direct. Evaluate the Construction Contractor’s price quotation(s) and review and attempt to negotiate with the Construction Contractor to provide the Department with costs that are consistent with the value of the Project Bulletin(s). Recommend appropriate action to the Department regarding the Construction Contractor’s quotations within five (5) business days of receipt thereof.

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Construction Codes and Permits. The Professional’s Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by the, the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Professional as a reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided for. Submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approval. Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings to the Department’s Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the 90 percent final design stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications into the Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s construction field inspections enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the design and siting requirements. Identify and confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the construction contractual requirements. Establish the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction quality control and material testing services. Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract. SAMPLE Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project will be performed by the Department by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scope. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design drawings, specifications, and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. SAMPLE Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents to the State/Client Agency and the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director as required for posting. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction Contractor, the Construction Contractor recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version of MICHSPEC standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronically; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction Contractor’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLE.

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Construction Codes and Permits. The Professional’s Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by thethe Department of State Police, Fire Marshal Division, the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Professional as a reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided for. Submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approval. Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings to the Department’s Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the 90 percent final design stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability Energy Code requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications into the Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s construction field inspections enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the design and siting requirements. Identify and confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the construction contractual requirements. Establish the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction quality control and material testing services. The Department will retain an independent professional quality control and material testing services firm for the construction testing at the 50 percent completion review stage. Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract. Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project will be performed by the Department by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scopeContract. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design drawings, specifications, and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated predicted to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents first to the State/Client Agency and for their final design review of the programmatic design conformance. Submit Bidding Documents to the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director and instructions as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Maintain a construction Bidders' list. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director all construction Bidders as required for postingrequired. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project Project, if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder’s 's Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value qualified construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(sProfessional(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor Professional, within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction ContractorProfessional, the Construction Contractor Professional recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version MICHSPEC 2001 Edition of MICHSPEC the Owner and Professional Standard Construction Contract and General Conditions for Construction (Long Form)” standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronicallyin triplicate; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction ContractorProfessional’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLEProvide instructions, and/or design interpretations and clarifications for design details within five (5) business days of the Construction Professional's request, record same, in writing; and (2) Revise the Professional’s original final design architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications as appropriate to the Project. Marking and initialing of drawings is not an acceptable form of written instruction. Bulletin Authorization: Request authorization from the Project Director to issue each individual Bulletin. The Professional’s Bulletin Authorization request will: (1) Identify the problem requiring the change; (2) Describe clearly if such problem arises from the architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions; (3) Identify the anticipated design cost and the estimated construction cost to implement the change(s); and (4) Describe clearly in the Professional’s opinion which part, if any, of the design and/or construction costs are the obligation of the State, the Professional or the Construction Professional. Include a Contract Modification request for any work outside the Project. Identify any anticipated Project design or construction schedule implications. Bulletins: All reproduction costs for design interpretations and clarifications and Bulletins related to the Professional’s architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Describe, by Bulletin, design revisions necessary to correct the architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions, to address previously unidentified on-site field design conditions, to reduce costs and for all other matters approved by the Department involving costs or credit to the State. Postponement of action on items in order to accumulate multi-item Bulletins is not permitted. Prepare and issue Bulletins within ten (10) business days of receipt of the Department's authorization. Bulletins shall be in such form and detail as the Department may prescribe. The Professional shall incorporate all accepted Bulletin revisions or design interpretations into the appropriate originals of all applicable Contract Documents. Such revised drawings and specifications shall be issued as part of Bulletins. Each Bulletin shall prescribe a time schedule for the Construction Professional's response. Provide up to five (5) copies of each Bulletin to the Department and distribute as the Department may direct. Provide the Construction Professional with the following number of Bulletin copies: (1) For construction costs less than one (1) million dollars, provide two copies: and (2) All others, provide five (5) copies. Evaluate the Construction Professional's price quotation(s) and review and attempt to negotiate with the Construction Professional to provide the Department with costs that are consistent with the value of the Project Bulletin(s). Recommend appropriate action to the Department regarding the Construction Professional's quotations within five (5) business days of receipt thereof.

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Construction Codes and Permits. The Professional’s Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by thethe Department of State Police, Fire Marshal Division, the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Professional as a reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided for. Submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approval. Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings to the Department’s Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the 90 percent final design stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability Energy Code requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications into the Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s construction field inspections enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the design and siting requirements. Identify and confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the construction contractual requirements. Establish the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction quality control and material testing services. The Department will retain an independent professional quality control and material testing services firm for the construction testing at the 50 percent completion review stage. Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract. Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project will be performed by the Department by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scopeContract. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design drawings, specifications, and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated predicted to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider Give consideration to all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents first to the State/Client Agency and for their final design review of the programmatic design conformance. Submit Bidding Documents to the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director and instructions as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Maintain a construction Bidders' list. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director all construction Bidders as required for postingrequired. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder’s 's Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value qualified construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(sProfessional(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor Professional, within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction ContractorProfessional, the Construction Contractor Professional recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version MICHSPEC 2001 Edition of MICHSPEC the Owner and Professional Standard Construction Contract and General Conditions for Construction (Long Form)” standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronicallyin triplicate; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction ContractorProfessional’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rateslump sum fee. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLEProvide instructions, and/or design interpretations and clarifications for design details within five (5) business days of the Construction Professional's request, record same, in writing; and (2) Revise the Professional’s original final design architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications as appropriate to the Project. Marking and initialing of drawings is not an acceptable form of written instruction. Bulletin Authorization: Request authorization from the Project Director to issue each individual Bulletin. The Professional’s Bulletin Authorization request will: (1) Identify the problem requiring the change; (2) Describe clearly if such problem arises from the architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions; (3) Identify the anticipated design cost and the estimated construction cost to implement the change(s); and (4) Describe clearly in the Professional’s opinion which part, if any, of the design and/or construction costs are the obligation of the State, the Professional or the Construction Professional. Include a Contract Modification request for any work outside the Project. Identify any anticipated Project design or construction schedule implications. Bulletins: All reproduction costs for design interpretations and clarifications and Bulletins related to the Professional’s architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated lump sum fee. Describe, by Bulletin, design revisions necessary to correct the architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions, to address previously unidentified on-site field design conditions, to reduce costs and for all other matters approved by the Department involving costs or credit to the State. Postponement of action on items in order to accumulate multi-item Bulletins is not permitted. Prepare and issue Bulletins within ten (10) business days of receipt of the Department's authorization. Bulletins shall be in such form and detail as the Department may prescribe. The Professional shall incorporate all accepted Bulletin revisions or design interpretations into the appropriate originals of all applicable Contract Documents. Such revised drawings and specifications shall be issued as part of Bulletins. Each Bulletin shall prescribe a time schedule for the Construction Professional's response. Provide up to five (5) copies of each Bulletin to the Department and distribute as the Department may direct. Provide the Construction Professional with the following number of Bulletin copies: (1) For construction costs less than one (1) million dollars, provide two copies: and (2) All others, provide five (5) copies. Evaluate the Construction Professional's price quotation(s) and review and attempt to negotiate with the Construction Professional to provide the Department with costs that are consistent with the value of the Project Bulletin(s). Recommend appropriate action to the Department regarding the Construction Professional's quotations within five (5) business days of receipt thereof.

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Construction Codes and Permits. The ProfessionalProfessional firm’s final design Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with With Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Barrier- Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. The Professional shall advise and assist the Department with decisions on the Americans With Disabilities Act accessibility compliance. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, architectural and/or engineering design code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by the, the Department of Licensing State Police, Fire Marshal Division, and Regulatory Affairsthe Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, Codes and Fire Safety and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code design code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Department and are not the responsibility of the Professional. Any Project design code compliance and plan review approval fees paid by the Professional firm on the behalf of the Department will be compensated by the Department to the Professional firm as a an authorized reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided forexpense item (See Appendix 4) in this Contract. Submit Present and submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate architectural and/or engineering plans/drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approvalapproval (See attached Appendix 4, Authorized Reimbursable Tests and $ Expenses). Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings will be submitted to the Department’s Department of Management and Budget, Facilities Administration, Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the final design, 90 percent final design completion submittal stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate applicable Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability Energy Code requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications into the Contract Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s construction field inspections enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the design and siting requirements. Identify and confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the construction contractual requirements. Establish the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction quality control and material testing services. Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract. Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project will be performed by the Department by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scope. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design drawings, specifications, and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents to the State/Client Agency and the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director as required for posting. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction Contractor, the Construction Contractor recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version of MICHSPEC standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronically; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction Contractor’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLETask

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Construction Codes and Permits. The Professional’s Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by the, the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Professional as a reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided for. Submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approval. Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings to the Department’s Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the 90 percent final design stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications into the Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s construction field inspections enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the design and siting requirements. Identify and confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the construction contractual requirements. Establish the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction quality control and material testing services. Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract. Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project will be performed by the Department by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scope. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design drawings, specifications, and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents to the State/Client Agency and the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director as required for posting. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction Contractor, the Construction Contractor recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version of MICHSPEC standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronically; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction Contractor’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLE:

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Construction Codes and Permits. The Professional’s Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by the, the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Professional as a reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided for. Submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approval. Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings to the Department’s Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the 90 percent final design stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications into the Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s construction field inspections enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the design and siting requirements. Identify and confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the construction contractual requirements. Establish the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction quality control and material testing services. Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract. Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project will be performed by the Department by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scope. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design drawings, specifications, and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents to the State/Client Agency and the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director as required for posting. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction Contractor, the Construction Contractor recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version of MICHSPEC standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronically; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction Contractor’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLEProvide instructions, and/or design interpretations and clarifications for design details within five (5) business days of the Construction Contractor’s request, record same, in writing; and (2) Revise the Professional’s original final design architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications as appropriate to the Project. Marking and initialing of drawings is not an acceptable form of written instruction. Bulletin Authorization: Request authorization from the Project Director to issue each individual Bulletin. The Professional’s Bulletin Authorization request will: (1) Identify the problem requiring the change; (2) Describe clearly if such problem arises from the architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions; (3) Identify the anticipated design cost and the estimated construction cost to implement the change(s); and (4) Describe clearly in the Professional’s opinion which part, if any, of the design and/or construction costs are the obligation of the State, the Professional or the Construction Contractor. Include a Contract Modification request for any work outside the Project. Identify any anticipated Project design or construction schedule implications. Bulletins: All reproduction costs for design interpretations and clarifications and Bulletins related to the Professional’s architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Describe, by Bulletin, design revisions necessary to correct the architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions, to address previously unidentified on-site field design conditions, to reduce costs and for all other matters approved by the Department involving costs or credit to the State. Postponement of action on items to accumulate multi-item Bulletins is not permitted. Prepare and issue Bulletins within ten (10) business days of receipt of the Department’s authorization. Bulletins shall be in such form and detail as the Department may prescribe. The Professional shall incorporate all accepted Bulletin revisions or design interpretations into the appropriate originals of all applicable Contract Documents. Such revised drawings and specifications shall be issued as part of Bulletins. Each Bulletin shall prescribe a time schedule for the Construction Contractor’s response. Provide one electronic copy of each Bulletin to the Department and distribute as the Department may direct. Evaluate the Construction Contractor’s price quotation(s) and review and attempt to negotiate with the Construction Contractor to provide the Department with costs that are consistent with the value of the Project Bulletin(s). Recommend appropriate action to the Department regarding the Construction Contractor’s quotations within five (5) business days of receipt thereof.

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Construction Codes and Permits. The ProfessionalProfessional firm’s final design Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with With Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Barrier- Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. The Professional shall advise and assist the Department with decisions on the Americans With Disabilities Act accessibility compliance. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, environmental engineering design code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by the, the Department of Licensing State Police, Fire Marshal Division, and Regulatory Affairsthe Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, Codes and Fire Safety and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code design code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Department and are not the responsibility of the Professional. Any Project design code compliance and plan review approval fees paid by the Professional firm on the behalf of the Department will be compensated by the Department to the Professional firm as a an authorized reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided forexpense item (See Appendix 4) in this Contract. Submit Present and submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate environmental engineering plans/drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approvalapproval (See attached Appendix 4, Authorized Reimbursable Tests and $ Expenses). Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings will be submitted to the Department’s Department of Management and Budget, Facilities Administration, Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the final design, 90 percent final design completion submittal stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate applicable Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability Energy Code requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications into the Contract Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s construction field inspections enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the design and siting requirements. Identify and confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the construction contractual requirements. Establish the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction quality control and material testing services. Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract. Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project will be performed by the Department by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scope. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design drawings, specifications, and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents to the State/Client Agency and the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director as required for posting. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction Contractor, the Construction Contractor recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version of MICHSPEC standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronically; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction Contractor’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLETask

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Construction Codes and Permits. The ProfessionalProfessional firm’s final design Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with With Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. The Professional shall advise and assist the Department with decisions on the Americans With Disabilities Act accessibility compliance. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, architectural and engineering design code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by the, the Department of Licensing State Police, Fire Marshal Division, and Regulatory Affairsthe Department of Labor and Economic Growth, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, Codes and Fire Safety and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code design code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Department and are not the responsibility of the Professional. Any Project design code compliance and plan review approval fees paid by the Professional firm on the behalf of the Department will be compensated by the Department to the Professional firm as a an authorized reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided forexpense item (See Appendix 4) of this Contract. Submit Present and submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate architectural and engineering plans/drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approvalapproval (See attached Appendix 4, Authorized Reimbursable Tests and $ Expenses). Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings will be submitted to the Department’s Department of Management and Budget, Facilities Administration, Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the final design, 90 percent final design completion submittal stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate applicable Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability Energy Code requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications Contract Modifications into the Contract Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515review. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting under this Phase does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s the construction field inspections Inspections review/enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the design and siting requirements. Identify and confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the construction contractual requirements. Establish the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction quality control and material testing services. Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract. Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project will be performed by the Department by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scope. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design drawings, specifications, and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents to the State/Client Agency and the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director as required for posting. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction Contractor, the Construction Contractor recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version of MICHSPEC standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronically; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction Contractor’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLE.

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Construction Codes and Permits. The Professional’s Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by thethe Department of State Police, Fire Marshal Division, the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Professional as a reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided for. Submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approval. Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings to the Department’s Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the 90 percent final design stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability Energy Code requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications into the Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s construction field inspections enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site on‑site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the design and siting requirements. Identify and confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the construction contractual requirements. Establish the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction quality control and material testing services. The Department will retain an independent professional quality control and material testing services firm for the construction testing at the 50 percent completion review stage. Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract. Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project will be performed by the Department by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scopeContract. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design drawings, specifications, specifications and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated predicted to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost cost, and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider Give consideration to all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents first to the State/Client Agency and for their final design review of the programmatic design conformance. Submit Bidding Documents to the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director and instructions as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Maintain a construction Bidders' list. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director all construction Bidders as required for postingrequired. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project Project, if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder’s 's Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value qualified construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor Contractor, within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction Contractor, the Construction Contractor recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version MICHSPEC 2001 Edition of MICHSPEC the Owner and Contractor Standard Construction Contract and General Conditions for Construction (Long Form)” standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronicallyin triplicate; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction Contractor’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLE(1) Provide instructions, and/or design interpretations and clarifications for design details within five (5) business days of the Construction Contractor's request, record same, in writing; and (2) Revise the Professional’s original final design architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications as appropriate to the Project. Marking and initialing of drawings is not an acceptable form of written instruction. Bulletin Authorization: Request authorization from the Project Director to issue each individual Bulletin. The Professional’s Bulletin Authorization request will: (1) Identify the problem requiring the change; (2) Describe clearly if such problem arises from the architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions; (3) Identify the anticipated design cost and the estimated construction cost to implement the change(s); and (4) Describe clearly in the Professional’s opinion which part, if any, of the design and/or construction costs are the obligation of the State, the Professional or the Construction Contractor. Include a Contract Modification request for any work outside the Project. Identify any anticipated Project design or construction schedule implications. Bulletins: All reproduction costs for design interpretations and clarifications and Bulletins related to the Professional’s architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Describe, by Bulletin, design revisions necessary to correct the architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions, to address previously unidentified on-site field design conditions, to reduce costs and for all other matters approved by the Department involving costs or credit to the State. Postponement of action on items in order to accumulate multi-item Bulletins is not permitted. Prepare and issue Bulletins within ten (10) business days of receipt of the Department's authorization. Bulletins shall be in such form and detail as the Department may prescribe. The Professional shall incorporate all accepted Bulletin revisions or design interpretations into the appropriate originals of all applicable Contract Documents. Such revised drawings and specifications shall be issued as part of Bulletins. Each Bulletin shall prescribe a time schedule for the Construction Contractor's response. Provide up to five (5) copies of each Bulletin to the Department and distribute as the Department may direct. Provide the Construction Contractor with the following number of Bulletin copies: (1) For construction costs less than one (1) million dollars, provide two (2) copies; and (2) All others, provide five (5) copies. Evaluate the Construction Contractor's price quotation(s) and review and attempt to negotiate with the Construction Contractor to provide the Department with costs that are consistent with the value of the Project Bulletin(s). Recommend appropriate action to the Department regarding the Construction Contractor's quotations within five (5) business days of receipt thereof.

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Construction Codes and Permits. The Professional’s Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by thethe Department of State Police, Fire Marshal Division, the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Professional as a reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided for. Submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approval. Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings to the Department’s Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the 90 percent final design stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability Energy Code requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications into the Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s construction field inspections enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the design and siting requirements. Identify and confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the construction contractual requirements. Establish the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction quality control and material testing services. The Department will retain an independent professional quality control and material testing services firm for the construction testing at the 50 percent completion review stage. Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract. Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project will be performed by the Department by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scopeContract. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design drawings, specifications, and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated predicted to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents first to the State/Client Agency and for their final design review of the programmatic design conformance. Submit Bidding Documents to the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director and instructions as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Maintain a construction Bidders' list. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director all construction Bidders as required for postingrequired. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project Project, if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder’s 's Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value qualified construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(sProfessional(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor Professional, within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction ContractorProfessional, the Construction Contractor Professional recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version MICHSPEC 2001 Edition of MICHSPEC the Owner and Professional Standard Construction Contract and General Conditions for Construction (Long Form)” standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronicallyin triplicate; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction ContractorProfessional’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLE:

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Construction Codes and Permits. The ProfessionalProfessional firm’s final design Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with With Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Barrier- Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. The Professional shall advise and assist the Department with decisions on the Americans With Disabilities Act accessibility compliance. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, water systems design, storm water management, remodeling/repair, roof restoration and/or replacement, structural investigation, architectural and/or engineering design code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by the, the Department of Licensing State Police, Fire Marshal Division, and Regulatory Affairsthe Department of Labor and Economic Growth, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, Codes and Fire Safety and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code design code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Department and are not the responsibility of the Professional. Any Project design code compliance and plan review approval fees paid by the Professional firm on the behalf of the Department will be compensated by the Department to the Professional firm as a an authorized reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided forexpense item (See Appendix 4) in this Contract. Submit Present and submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate water systems design, storm water management, remodeling/repair, roof restoration and/or replacement, structural investigation, architectural and/or engineering plans/drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approvalapproval (See attached Appendix 4, Authorized Reimbursable Tests and $ Expenses). Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings will be submitted to the Department’s Department of Management and Budget, Facilities Administration, Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the final design, 90 percent final design completion submittal stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate applicable Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability Energy Code requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications into the Contract Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s construction field inspections enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the design and siting requirements. Identify and confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the construction contractual requirements. Establish the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction quality control and material testing services. Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract. Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project will be performed by the Department by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scope. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design drawings, specifications, and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents to the State/Client Agency and the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director as required for posting. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction Contractor, the Construction Contractor recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version of MICHSPEC standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronically; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction Contractor’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLETask

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Construction Codes and Permits. The ProfessionalProfessional firm’s final design Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with With Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Barrier- Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. The Professional shall advise and assist the Department with decisions on the Americans With Disabilities Act accessibility compliance. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, remodeling/repair, roof restoration and/or replacement, architectural and/or engineering design code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by the, the Department of Licensing State Police, Fire Marshal Division, and Regulatory Affairsthe Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, Codes and Fire Safety and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code design code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Department and are not the responsibility of the Professional. Any Project design code compliance and plan review approval fees paid by the Professional firm on the behalf of the Department will be compensated by the Department to the Professional firm as a an authorized reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided forexpense item (See Appendix 4) in this Contract. Submit Present and submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate remodeling/repair, roof restoration and/or replacement, architectural and/or engineering plans/drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approvalapproval (See attached Appendix 4, Authorized Reimbursable Tests and $ Expenses). Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings will be submitted to the Department’s Department of Management and Budget, Facilities Administration, Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the final design, 90 percent final design completion submittal stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate applicable Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability Energy Code requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications into the Contract Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting under this Task does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s the construction field inspections Inspections review/enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the Project design and siting requirements. Identify and confirm the Project site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the Project construction contractual requirements. Establish at the 50 percent completion interval the required construction Phase quality control and materials material testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction Phase quality control and material testing services. The Department will retain an independent professional quality control and material testing firm for the construction Phase testing at the 50 percent completion review of Task 515 (Construction Phase Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item (See Appendix 4) in this Contract). Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department Department, to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project Project, will be performed by the Department with other professional firms by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scopeContract, who are licensed and insured to perform this service. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this ProjectProject scope of work. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design design/Contract Bidding Documents drawings, specifications, specifications and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement scope of work on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the Project construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Confirm, in writing, the estimated operating utility cost of the Project. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documentsBidding Documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate confirm, in writing to the Department. Confirm , that in accordance with the Contract scope of work, an accurate itemized estimate of the construction cost is formulated and the total Project construction cost is estimated predicted to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department Department, in writing writing, if it becomes evident evident, during the final design phase Phase schedule duration of this Project, that the Project cannot be constructed within the ProfessionalProfessional firm’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall to the extent required to bring the actual Project construction Budget cost back to the Professional firm’s original estimated construction Budget cost, revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost Project, and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate Project proposed construction schedule period to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider Give consideration to all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract Contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Amplify the Professional firm’s attached Appendix 3 – Project Study, Design and Proposed Construction Schedule to consider construction bidding, Phasing, seasonal influences and to account for any elements of construction having critical deliveries and/or construction times and of the Task 512 required Project scope of work. Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents Bidding Documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the ProjectProject scope of work design criteria/data calculations for remodeling/repair, roof restoration and/or replacement, architectural, civil, structural, mechanical/heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC), plumbing and electrical engineering systems and resubmit to the Department of Management and Budget, Facilities Administration, Design and Construction Division’s, Project Director. Confirm Determine and confirm in writing writing, that the final design can be achieved within the Project Budget and that all requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of final design Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents first to the State/Client Agency and the Department for their final design review of the Project programmatic design conformance adequacy. Submit final design Bidding Documents to the Department for their review and revise final design Bidding Documents, as necessary necessary, to incorporate all requested final design review comments required for Department written acceptance of the final design Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time one (minimum of 14 calendar days1) acceptable final design presentation to the Project Team for this Task. Any additional final design presentations requested by the reviews Department will be considered extra professional services and implementation of any comments or modificationsthe additional final design costs will be paid to the Professional firm by the Department with a Contract Change Order. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTINGCONTRACTING PROCEDURES: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The Advertisement and award of this Construction Contract will be by the State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue Michigan. Provide the Department with a list of recommended qualified construction documents on-line and award and hold Bidders' appropriate to the Construction ContractProject scope of work requirements. Recommend the appropriate construction bidding and/or contracting method to the Department. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director and instructions as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Maintain a qualified construction Bidders' list. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s listsprebid meetings. Issue a preconstruction Addenda to the Project Director all qualified construction Bidders as required for postingrequired. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project scope of work requirements, if such specifications are not part of the final design Bidding Documents. Exert every practical means to obtain several, qualified construction Bidders for every Construction Contract. The Professional firm will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The ProfessionalProfessional firm’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder’s 's Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the Department’s submitted competitive construction BidsBids for the Project. Provide Based on the Professional firm’s review of the competitive construction Bids and the qualified construction Bidders, provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the ProfessionalProfessional firm’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the final design Contract Documents Documents/remodeling/repair, roof restoration and/or replacement, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications or for any estimating work related to the ProjectProject scope of work requirements. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract precontract meetings with responsive, responsible best value qualified construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction Contractor, the Construction Contractor recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version of MICHSPEC standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronically; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction Contractor’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLE:

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Construction Codes and Permits. The ProfessionalProfessional firm’s final design Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with With Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. The Professional shall advise and assist the Department with decisions on the Americans With Disabilities Act accessibility compliance. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, architectural and/or engineering design code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by the, the Department of Licensing State Police, Fire Marshal Division, and Regulatory Affairsthe Department of Labor and Economic Growth, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, Codes and Fire Safety and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code design code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Department and are not the responsibility of the Professional. Any Project design code compliance and plan review approval fees paid by the Professional on the behalf of the Department will be compensated by the Department to the Professional as a reimbursable an authorized Contract expense, unless otherwise provided for. Submit Present and submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate architectural and/or engineering plans/drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approvalapproval (See attached Appendix 4, Authorized Reimbursable Tests and $ Expenses). Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings will be submitted to the Department’s Department of Management and Budget, Facilities Administration, Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the final design, 90 percent final design completion submittal stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate applicable Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability Energy Code requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications Contract Modifications into the Contract Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515review. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting under this Phase does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s the construction field inspections enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the design and siting field Inspections review/enforcement requirements. Identify and confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the construction contractual requirements. Establish the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction quality control and material testing services. Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract. Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project will be performed by the Department by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scope. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design drawings, specifications, and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents to the State/Client Agency and the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director as required for posting. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction Contractor, the Construction Contractor recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version of MICHSPEC standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronically; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction Contractor’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLE.

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Construction Codes and Permits. The ProfessionalProfessional firm’s final design and Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction environmental code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. List all environmental permitting to be required for the Construction Contractor. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or construction code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, design code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by thethe Department of State Police, Fire Marshal Division, and the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, Division and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code design code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Department and are not the responsibility of the Professional firm. Any Project design code compliance and plan review fees paid by the Professional firm on the behalf of the Department will be compensated by the Department to the Professional firm as a an authorized reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided forexpense item (See attached Professional’s Proposal) in this Contract. Submit Present and submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate drawings drawings/plans and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approval. Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control final design plans/drawings will be submitted to the Department’s Department of Technology, Management and Budget, Facilities Administration, Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the final design, 90 percent final design completion submittal stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate applicable Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability Energy Code requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications Contract Modifications into the Contract Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting under this Task does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s the construction on-site field inspections Inspections review/enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION CONSTRUCTION/ON-SITE TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site Conduct on‑site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the Project design and siting requirementssiting, wherein underground construction problems could cause claims or delays. Identify and Conduct a testing program to adequately discover, identify and/or confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently sufficient to accurately specify the construction Project scope of work contractual requirements. Establish at the 50 percent completion interval the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Where the Project work involves the removal/replacement of soils or other bulk materials and which require environmental contamination testing to determine levels of contamination specify the testing program and procedures to be used. Define and specify the types of Project construction on-site tests required, the required and approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare Where such services are not provided by the Professional, prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction Phase quality control and material testing services. The Department will retain a professional quality control testing services firm for construction Phase testing at the 50 percent Project document completion review of Task 515 (Construction Phase Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract). Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where Except as may be part of the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility systemwork, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials material testing and removal for from existing facilities and/or utilities to allow construction of this Project Project, will be performed by the Department by separate with specialized firms who are licensed and insured to perform this service. Notify the Department of any area suspected of containing hazardous material. Provide testing and Contract unless specifically noted in preparation for the project scoperelated work. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this the Project. Where the Project involves work in an existing site utility system, as part of the 50 percent review of Task 515, identify and locate for the Department, in writing, and by diagram, any site utility areas which may have potential hazardous material contamination which may require remediation and/or removal prior to the construction work of the Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all site restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement remediation Project. Revise Also, identify the final design drawings, specifications, and schedule, if necessary, to reflect time frame for the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a removal remediation Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated to be within completed. Incorporate appropriate provisions into the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications of this Project to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part assure full coordination of the Construction Contract. Consider all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents to the State/Client Agency and the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director as required for posting. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder’s Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction Contractor, the Construction Contractor recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version of MICHSPEC standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronically; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction Contractor’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rates. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLE.

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Construction Codes and Permits. The Professional’s Contract Documents shall comply with the State of Michigan Construction Code, 1972 PA 230, as amended, the State of Michigan Energy Code, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guide requirements, the State of Michigan Barrier-Free Access Code requirements, and all Project related construction code requirements in effect at the time of award of this Contract. Assist the Department in obtaining approval of the Project and its design by appropriate governmental regulating and/or code enforcement authorities. Project Bidding Documents may not be advertised until plan review approval is obtained. SAMPLE Except as otherwise provided for in this Contract, code compliance and plan review approval(s) shall be performed by thethe Department of State Police, Fire Marshal Division, the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of Construction Codes, Plan Review Division, and the Bureau of Fire Services. Code compliance and plan review approval fees shall be paid by the Professional as a reimbursable expense, unless otherwise provided for. Submit all modeling, testing, design data, and appropriate drawings and applications for all permits, tests, and approvals, which the Department is required to secure as a prerequisite authorization for the Project's approval. Submit Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control plans/drawings to the Department’s Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Program as the enforcing authority for this Project, no later than at the 90 percent final design stage. Provide energy efficient design features and summary calculations to demonstrate Project compliance with the State of Michigan Sustainability Energy Code requirements. Submit documents for review in a timely manner allowing appropriate time for review/permitting processes by respective authorities, such that the Project schedule is not unnecessarily delayed. Assist the State/Client Agency to secure any appropriate construction code waivers. Incorporate all required modifications into the Bidding Documents. Follow through to ensure issuance of the construction codes and permits approvals. Secure all required design approvals before submitting the final design documents to the Project Team for the final design document review of Task 515. Any approval secured in initial plan review and permitting does not relieve the Professional from complying with code official’s construction field inspections enforcement requirements. Task 511 CONSTRUCTION TESTING PROGRAM: Coordinate Project on-site on‑site survey and appropriate research to identify site specific abnormal construction conditions. Coordinate site specific geotechnical testing program of areas, consistent with the design and siting requirements. Identify and confirm the site underground conditions sufficiently to accurately specify the construction contractual requirements. Establish the required construction quality control and materials testing program. Define and specify the types of Project construction tests required, the approximate quantities to be tested and the projected cost thereof. Prepare quality control and material testing services program Bidding Documents for the construction quality control and material testing services. The Department will retain an independent professional quality control and material testing services firm for the construction testing at the 50 percent completion review stage. Testing services shall be estimated and identified as an authorized reimbursable expense item in this Contract. Task 512 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: Where the Project involves work in an existing building and/or utility system, assist the Department to determine the scope of potential hazardous materials contamination that may require testing, abatement and/or removal by the Department, prior to the renovation and/or during the new construction work of the Project. Hazardous materials testing and removal for this Project will be performed by the Department by separate Contract unless specifically noted in the project scopeContract. Coordinate the professional design services of this Contract with any hazardous material removal services required to implement this Project. Include for the Department's use, architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications for all restoration work necessary following completion of the removal/abatement Project. Revise the final design drawings, specifications, specifications and schedule, if necessary, to reflect the impact of the hazardous material removal/abatement on the existing State/Client Agency facility operations. Task 513 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: The Professional shall be responsible for all costs incurred by it, necessitated by for rebidding a Project if it is over Budget due to their design. Submit in writing the itemized estimate of the construction costs with each final design review. Include all construction Bid packaging and Phasing. Determine the amount and adequacy of any construction contingency. Upon submittal of the 90 percent complete final design documents, confirm an accurate itemized construction cost estimate in writing to the Department. Confirm that the total Project construction cost is estimated predicted to be within the Project Budget. Notify the Department in writing if it becomes evident during the final design phase that the Project cannot be constructed within the Professional’s estimated construction Budget. Unless the Department determines the problem to be outside the control or responsibility of the Professional, the Professional shall revise their final design drawings and specifications to produce a complete design for the Project within the Professional’s original estimated construction Budget cost cost, and will otherwise be responsible for any costs incurred by the Department in rebidding the Project. Assist the Department to rebid the Project in accordance with the Task 516 construction bidding/contracting procedures. Task 514 CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE: Determine the appropriate proposed construction schedule to be part of the Construction Contract. Consider Give consideration to all principal influencing factors, including, but not limited to, current and projected material delivery times, local labor contract periods, and other historical principal causes of delays. SAMPLE Task 515 FINAL DESIGN BIDDING DOCUMENTS REVIEW: Provide complete final design documents review. When the final design is 50 percent complete, submit the final design documents to the Project team for their review. If the final design appears to exceed the Project Budget, review with the Department all cost reduction design options. Incorporate at 90 percent completion, all required design modifications applicable to the Project, and resubmit to the Project Director. Confirm in writing that the requirements of Tasks 509 and 510 have been met. Submit 100 percent complete sets of Bidding Documents to the Project Team for their final review. Submit final design documents first to the State/Client Agency and for their final design review of the programmatic design conformance. Submit Bidding Documents to the Department for their final design review and revise as necessary to incorporate all review comments required for Department written acceptance of the Bidding Documents. Provide adequate time (minimum of 14 calendar days) for the reviews and implementation of any comments or modifications. Task 516 CONSTRUCTION BIDDING AND CONTRACTING: Assist the Department in the construction bidding and contracting process. The State of Michigan will advertise for bids and issue construction documents on-line and award and hold the Construction Contract. Prepare (maximum of 6mb electronic PDF files) and distribute Bidding Documents to the Project Director and instructions as required to accommodate predetermined construction Bid packages and/or Phases. Maintain a construction Bidders' list. Conduct pre-bid meetings and issue pre-bid meeting minutes and bidder’s lists. Issue Addenda to the Project Director all construction Bidders as required for postingrequired. Include in each Addendum complete specifications for the Project Project, if such specifications are not part of the Bidding Documents. The Professional will be compensated by the Department with a Contract Change Order for providing the professional services necessary to rebid the Project for reason of defaulted or disqualified construction Bidder(s) or unacceptable price range as required by the design and construction Budget text of Task 513. The Professional’s construction bidding and contracting procedure services for Task 516 are not complete until: (1) The lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder’s Bid has been selected and accepted by the Department; and (2) The lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder’s 's Construction Contract has been executed. The PSC is to also incorporate any State required preferences with their review and recommendation. Construction Bid Evaluation and Recommendation of Construction Contract Awards: Review and evaluate the submitted construction Bids. Provide the Department with a written recommendation for the apparent lowest responsive, responsible, best value responsible qualified construction Bidder for the Project Construction Contract award(s) within five (5) business days of the date of the Department’s construction Bid opening. Exempt from recommendation any firm that in the Professional’s opinion is unqualified for the Project (documentation required) or that the Professional has a business association with on this Project, and any firm, that the Professional has used in preparation of the Contract Documents or for any estimating work related to the Project. The Professional shall conduct pre-contract meetings with responsive, responsible best value qualified construction Bidder(s) to review the following items: (1) Understanding of the design intent of the Contract Documents; and (2) To advise and assist the Construction Contractor(s) in understanding the requirements of the Department’s standard form of Construction Contract Documents, Project scope of work, and its Construction Contract award procedures. Unless otherwise designated in the Department’s Notice of Intent to Award letter to the recommended Construction Contractor Contractor, within fifteen (15) calendar days from the date that the Notice of Intent to Award letter was mailed to the Construction Contractor, the Construction Contractor recommended for the award of the Construction Contract shall (a) Fill out and execute the Department’s, current version MICHSPEC 2001 Edition of MICHSPEC the Owner and Contractor Standard Construction Contract and General Conditions for Construction (Long Form)” standard form documents Section 00500, Contract Agreement and the Section 00800, Supplementary Conditions, electronicallyin triplicate; (b) Execute Section 00610, Performance Bond, and the Section 00620, Payment Bond (and attach to each bond a separate, certified copy of Power of Attorney); and (c) Return to the Department, the Construction Contractor’s executed Section 00500, Contract Agreement, Section 00610, Performance Bond, and Section 00620, Payment Bond forms, evidence of Certificates of Insurance and any other legal documents required for submittal by the Department’s, Notice of Intent to Award letter. Task 517 FINAL DESIGN CORRECTION PROCEDURES: Correct at no additional cost to the Department any design errors or omissions and/or other Project related deficiencies identified during the 600 and 700 Construction Phase. All reproduction costs for design interpretations, clarifications, and Bulletins related to the Professional’s final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated hourly billing rateslump sum fee. Provide design clarifications and interpretations of the Contract Documents requirements necessary to: (1) Adequately describe the Project work; (2) Adapt architectural and/or engineering final design documents during construction to accommodate field conditions identified during construction; (3) Refine design details that are not feasible and identified during construction; and (4) Comply with current construction/building codes, and all other Project related design and construction matters as may be necessary to produce a complete Project. Design Interpretations and Clarifications: For elements of construction having no change in cost to the State the Professional will: SAMPLE(1) Provide instructions, and/or design interpretations and clarifications for design details within five (5) business days of the Construction Contractor's request, record same, in writing; and (2) Revise the Professional’s original final design architectural and/or engineering drawings and specifications as appropriate to the Project. Marking and initialing of drawings is not an acceptable form of written instruction. Bulletin Authorization: Request authorization from the Project Director to issue each individual Bulletin. The Professional’s Bulletin Authorization request will: (1) Identify the problem requiring the change; (2) Describe clearly if such problem arises from the architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions; (3) Identify the anticipated design cost and the estimated construction cost to implement the change(s); and (4) Describe clearly in the Professional’s opinion which part, if any, of the design and/or construction costs are the obligation of the State, the Professional or the Construction Contractor. Include a Contract Modification request for any work outside the Project. Identify any anticipated Project design or construction schedule implications. Bulletins: All reproduction costs for design interpretations and clarifications and Bulletins related to the Professional’s architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions and similar or avoidable costs shall be accounted as part of the Professional’s calculated lump sum fee. Describe, by Bulletin, design revisions necessary to correct the architectural and/or engineering final design errors or omissions, to address previously unidentified on-site field design conditions, to reduce costs and for all other matters approved by the Department involving costs or credit to the State. Postponement of action on items in order to accumulate multi-item Bulletins is not permitted. Prepare and issue Bulletins within ten (10) business days of receipt of the Department's authorization. Bulletins shall be in such form and detail as the Department may prescribe. The Professional shall incorporate all accepted Bulletin revisions or design interpretations into the appropriate originals of all applicable Contract Documents. Such revised drawings and specifications shall be issued as part of Bulletins. Each Bulletin shall prescribe a time schedule for the Construction Contractor's response. Provide up to five (5) copies of each Bulletin to the Department and distribute as the Department may direct. Provide the Construction Contractor with the following number of Bulletin copies: (1) For construction costs less than one (1) million dollars, provide two (2) copies; and (2) All others, provide five (5) copies. Evaluate the Construction Contractor's price quotation(s) and review and attempt to negotiate with the Construction Contractor to provide the Department with costs that are consistent with the value of the Project Bulletin(s). Recommend appropriate action to the Department regarding the Construction Contractor's quotations within five (5) business days of receipt thereof.

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