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c) The Consultant shall meet with and present the Preliminary MPT Plan to the Commissioner;
d) Upon receipt of general concurrence from the Commissioner or direction to pursue additional alternatives
and/or expand the specificity of the MPT proposal, the Consultant shall request a review of the proposed MPT
scheme by the Department of Transportation’s Office of Construction Mitigation and Coordination.
C. STAGE III - FINAL MPT DEVELOPMENT. In this stage the Consultant shall:
a) Develop and prepare final MPT plans and fully incorporate the final MPT plans into the composite final contract
documents;
b) The Consultant shall fully integrate and incorporate any comments and/or stipulations received from the
Department of Transportation’s Office of Construction Mitigation and Coordination into the Composite Final Contract
Documents.
4.25 PREPARATION OF SPECIFICATIONS
Under this task, the Consultant shall prepare and print complete sets of Specifications for the ensuing construction
contract. The specifications, which shall include boiler plate, required Addenda and Bid Schedule Sheets, shall be
prepared within the framework of the following parameters:
1. Standard Specifications of the Department and of the agencies having jurisdiction over various elements of the project
shall be used as directed by the Commissioner.
2. Addenda shall contain either modifications to standard items or complete descriptions for new items of work. In
addition, addenda may contain special provisions for conducting the work, including but not limited to time of construction,
maintenance of traffic stipulations, insurance requirements, State/Federal requirements, and incorporation of additional
provisions for both private and City-Owned Utility work.
3. The Specifications shall conform to the appropriate Standard Specifications for the various items of work involved;
excepting where there is no standard specification for a proposed bid item or item of work, the Consultant shall prepare the
necessary special specification, as an Addendum to the Standard Specifications, and shall submit such special
specification to the Commissioner for review and approval.
Where required by the Commissioner, the Consultant shall prepare a justification for New York State Department of
Transportation (NYSDOT) review - specifically outlining the technical circumstances requiring a new specification write-up
and shall be responsible for obtaining NYSDOT approval of new specifications.
4. Bid Schedule sheets will be provided to the Consultant by the Commissioner for incorporation into the Specifications.
The Bid Schedule sheets will contain contract bid items listed by item number and description, presented in standard
Departmental format, and will be produced in accordance with the detailed Consultant's Estimate and Scope packet
produced and provided by the Consultant under other tasks included in the Specific Requirement of this Contract.
5. The Consultant shall provide Supplemental Data in standard Departmental format for the Bid Schedule, as needed,
and shall verify the Bid Schedule, produced by the Commissioner, for correctness.
6. When directed by the Commissioner, collated and bound copies of the complete Specifications, Addenda and Bid
Schedule Sheets shall be furnished by the Consultant for technical and construction reviews in accordance with the
approved project schedule.
7. When directed by the Commissioner, the Consultant shall prepare a draft specification in accordance with the
approved project schedule.
8. The Consultant shall print, inspect, and deliver to the Department the required number of collated, unbound, sets of
the completed Specifications for advertisement as outlined in Section 2.5 of these General Requirements and Specific
Requirements.
9. During advertisement, the Consultant shall answer all questions submitted by prospective bidders and, when and as
required, submit answers to DDC. DDC shall expeditiously prepare, notify and distribute addenda to prospective bidders.
10. The Consultant shall continuously maintain, update and submit to the Commissioner "on demand" (at any time during
the public advertisement period) a complete bidders' inquiry and disposition report (IDR) which shall, at a minimum, identify
NYC Department of Design and Construction
Infrastructure, October 2012
GR-68