BID DOCUMENTS - Rajasthan Agriculture Marketing Board

along with the estimate of the cost for removing these defect. The final certificate of workshall be given after the visible defects pointed out as above have been removed.(delete whichever is not applicable). (Ten days will apply to works at the headquarters ofEngineer-in-charge and thirty days for works at other place.)Clause 7 : Payment on Intermediate Certificate to be regarded as advanceNo payments shall be made for works estimated to cost less than rupees twentyfive thousand, till after the whole of the works shall have been completed and a certificateof completion given. But in the case of works estimated to cost more than Rupees twentyfive thousand, the contractor shall on submitting the bill therefor, be entitled to receive amonthly payment proportionate to the part, thereof, then approved and passed by theEngineer-in-charge, whose certificate of such approval and passing of sum, so payable,shall be final and conclusive. Running Account Bill shall be paid within 15 days frompresentation. But all such intermediate payments shall be regarded as payments by way ofadvance against the final payment only and not as payments or work actually done andcompleted, and shall not preclude the requiring of bad unsound and imperfect orunskillful work to be removed and taken away and re-construction or re-erected, orconsidered as an admission of the due performance of the contract or any part thereof, inany respect, or the accuring of any claim, nor shall it conclude, determine or effect in anyfinal settlement and adjustment of the account or otherwise or in any other way very oraffect the contract. The final bill shall be made/submitted by the Contractor with in onemonth of the date fixed for completion of the work otherwise the Engineer-in-charge’scertificate of the measurement and of the total amount payable for the work accordinglyshall be final and binding on all parties.Clause 7A: Time Limit for Payment of Final BillsThe final bill shall be paid within three months on presentation by the contractorafter issuance of final completion certificate in accordance with clause 6 of the conditionsof contract. If, there shall be any dispute about any item (s) of the work, then theundisputed item (s) only, shall be paid within said period of three months. If a final bill(which contains no disputed item or disputed amount of any item) is not paid within theperiod of three month from presentation of final bill or six months from the date of receiptof registered notice regarding completion of work in accordance with clause six of theconditions of the contract, the defects, if any, shall be brought to the notice of the higherauthority. The period of 3 months shall commence from the date of rectification of thedefects. The higher authority shall ensure that in no case final bill should be left unpaidafter 9 months from the receipt of registered notice regarding completion of work. Thecontractor shall submit a memorandum of the disputed items along with justification insupport within 30 days from the disallowance thereof, and if he fails to do so, his claimsshall deemed to have been fully waived and absolutely extinguished.Clause 8: Bills to be submitted monthlyA bill shall be submitted by the Contractor each month on or before the date fixeby Engineer-in-charge for all work executed in the previous month and the Engineer-inchargeshall take or cause to be taken the requisite measurement of the purpose of havingthe same verified and the claim, as far as admissible, authorised or paid, if possible beforethe expire of ten days from the presentation of the bill. If the Contractor does not theSignature of ContractorExecutive Engineer