NJ Transit delayed Bloomberg's request for the HNTB
change order for nine months and the Parsons documents for 18 months, saying it was working with the contractors to make redactions among 300 pages.
Alderman Rob Williams, who joined other four other aldermen in accepting the
change order, said he'd rather see the project delayed and done properly than being sped up, which might not prove beneficial to the city in the long run.
Change orders are a fact of life on construction projects.
This
change order and increase in contract value, demonstrates how closely we work with our biopharmaceutical clients to expand the services we provide to their clinical development programmes.'
AMR performed work as directed by the owner, the owner performed some of the contractor's scope of work, and the owner paid AMR for additional work or deducted for work the owner's forces performed --all without a written
change order signed by the parties as the terms of the agreement required.
There was no agency report establishing the justification for the need of such
change order which shall include computations as to the quantities of the additional works, the date of inspection conducted, the results of such inspection and detailed estimate of the unit cost, the report said.
However, a contractor would not know of a dispute until the SCA actually denied the
change order proposal, or offered an amount that could not reasonably be accepted.
Change orders have an even more pronounced impact when it comes to fixed-price, lump-sum contracts.
* The owner should not be obligated to pay for any additional work without prior authorization by
change order or other mutually accepted written directive.
Sources at ground zero in City Hall have informed us that City Engineer Jeffrey Skurka is tired of all of the work
change orders (on all projects) he's been asked to sign off on during his tenure.
The action will be executed through either a letter of technical direction (LOTD) or a
change order.
The 1st
change order is related to the marine works to construct A'Duqum Port worth (RO.