[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 48, Volume 5]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 48CFR852.236-80]



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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM

 

                CHAPTER 8--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

 

PART 852_SOLICITATION PROVISIONS AND CONTRACT CLAUSES--Table of Contents

 

              Subpart 852.2_Texts of Provisions and Clauses

 

Sec. 852.236-80  Subcontracts and work coordination.



    As prescribed in 836.574, insert the following clause:



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              Subcontracts and Work Coordination (APR 1984)



    (a) Nothing contained in this contract shall be construed as 

creating any contractual relationship between any subcontractor and the 

Government. Divisions or sections of specifications are not intended to 

control the contractor in dividing work among subcontractors, or to 

limit work performed by any trade.

    (b) The contractor shall be responsible to the Government for acts 

and omissions of his/her own employees, and of the subcontractors and 

their employees. The contractor shall also be responsible for 

coordination of the work of the trades, subcontractors, and material 

suppliers.

    (c) The Government or its representatives will not undertake to 

settle any differences between the contractor and subcontractors or 

between subcontractors.

    (d) The Government reserves the right to refuse to permit employment 

on the work or require dismissal from the work of any subcontractor who, 

by reason of previous unsatisfactory work on Department of Veterans 

Affairs projects or for any other reason, is considered by the 

contracting officer to be incompetent or otherwise objectionable.



                             (End of clause)



    Alternate I (JUL 2002) For new construction work with complex 

mechanical-electrical work, the following paragraph relating to work 

coordination may be substituted for paragraph (b) of the basic clause:



    (b) The contractor shall be responsible to the Government for acts 

and omissions of his/her own employees, and subcontractors and their 

employees. The contractor shall also be responsible for coordination of 

the work of the trades, subcontractors, and material suppliers. The 

contractor shall, in advance of the work, prepare coordination drawings 

showing the location of openings through slabs, the pipe sleeves and 

hanger inserts, as well as the location and elevation of utility lines, 

including, but not limited to, conveyor systems, pneumatic tubes, ducts, 

and conduits and pipes 2 inches and larger in diameter. These drawings, 

including plans, elevations, and sections as appropriate shall clearly 

show the manner in which the utilities fit into the available space and 

relate to each other and to existing building elements. Drawings shall 

be of appropriate scale to satisfy the previously stated purposes, but 

not smaller than \3/8\-inch scale. Drawings may be composite (with 

distinctive colors for the various trades) or may be separate but fully 

coordinated drawings (such as sepias or photographic paper 

reproducibles) of the same scale. Separate drawings shall depict 

identical building areas or sections and shall be capable of being 

overlaid in any combination. The submitted drawings for a given area of 

the project shall show the work of all trades which will be involved in 

that particular area. Six complete composite drawings or six complete 

sets of separate reproducible drawings shall be received by the 

Government not less than 20 days prior to the scheduled start of the 

work in the area illustrated by the drawings, for the purpose of showing 

the contractor's planned methods of installation. The objectives of such 

drawings are to promote carefully planned work sequence and proper trade 

coordination, in order to assure the expeditious solutions of problems 

and the installation of lines and equipment as contemplated by the 

contract documents while avoiding or minimizing additional costs to the 

contractor and to the Government. In the event the contractor, in 

coordinating the various installations and in planning the method of 

installation, finds a conflict in location or elevation of any of the 

utilities with themselves, with structural items or with other 

construction items, he/she shall bring this conflict to the attention of 

the contracting officer immediately. In doing so, the contractor shall 

explain the proposed method of solving the problem or shall request 

instructions as to how to proceed if adjustments beyond those of usual 

trades coordination are necessary. Utilities installation work will not 

proceed in any area prior to the submission and completion of the 

Government review of the coordinated drawings for that area, nor in any 

area in which conflicts are disclosed by the coordination drawings until 

the conflicts have been corrected to the satisfaction of the contracting 

officer. It is the responsibility of the contractor to submit the 

required drawings in a timely manner consistent with the requirements to 

complete the work covered by this contract within the prescribed 

contract time.



[49 FR 12629, Mar. 29, 1984, as amended at 50 FR 794, Jan. 7, 1985; 67 

FR 49261, July 30, 2002]