FMS - GAIL

88 Procedure for measurement
and billing of work in
progress:
or State Government or local Body or Municipal Taxes or
duties, taxes or charges (from or of any other body),
whatsoever, will be granted or obtained, all of which
expenses shall be deemed to be included in and covered
by the Schedule or Rates. The CONTRACTOR shall also
obtain and pay for all permits or other privileges necessary
to complete the WORK.
vi) SCHEDULE OF RATES TO COVER RISKS OF DELAY:
The Schedule of Rates shall be deemed to include and
cover the risk of all possibilities of delay and interference
with the CONTRACTOR's conduct of WORK which occur
from any causes including orders of the EMPLOYER in the
exercise of his power and on account of extension of time
granted due to various reasons and for all other possible or
probable causes of delay.
vii) SCHEDULE OF RATES CANNOT BE ALTERED:
For WORK under unit rate basis, no alteration will be
allowed in the Schedule of Rates by reason of works or any
part of them being modified, altered, extended, diminished
or committed. The Schedule of Rates are fully inclusive of
rates which have been fixed by the CONTRACTOR and
agreed to by the EMPLOYER and cannot be altered.
For lumpsum CONTRACTS, the payment will be made
according to the WORK actually carried out, for which
purpose an item wise, or work wise Schedule of Rates shall
be furnished, suitable for evaluating the value of WORK
done and preparing running account bill.
Payment for any additional work which is not covered in the
Schedule of Rates, shall only be released on issuance of
change order.
88.1 BILLING PROCEDURE:
Following procedures shall be adopted for billing of works executed
by the CONTRACTOR.
88.1.1 All measurements shall be recorded in sextuplicate on standard
measurement sheets supplied by EMPLOYER and submitted to
EMPLOYER/CONSULTANT for scrutiny and passing.
88.1.2 EMPLOYER/CONSULTANT shall scrutinise and check the
measurements recorded on the sheets and shall certify correctness
of the same on the measurement sheets.
88.1.3 ENGINEER-IN-CHARGE shall pass the bills after carrying out the
comprehensive checks in accordance with the terms and conditions
of the CONTRACTS, within 7 days of submission of the bills,
complete in all respects and send the same to the Employer to
effect payment to the CONTRACTOR.
88.1.4 GAIL shall make all endeavour to make payments of undisputed
amount of the bills submitted based on the joint measurements
within 15 (Fifteen) days from the date of certification by the
Engineer-in-Charge.
88.1.5 Measurements shall be recorded as per the methods of
measurement spelt out in EMPLOYER/CONSULTANT
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