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East Central Railway (Construction Organization) Tender Document of Tender Notice No. 06 of 2012-13 (Open) Tender No. 09 of 2012-13 (Open) Date of Dropping of Tender Document: 20.06.2012 Date of Opening of Tender Box: 22.06.2012
(6x12.2), 21C (5x12.2) and 36A (3x12.2) on pile foundation between Jhanjharpur - Laukaha Bazar section in connection with gauge conversion of Sakri-Nirmali & Jhanjharpur -Laukha Bazar section.
Name of Work: Rebuilding of major Br No. 21A (2x12.2) & 21B
Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (Con)/North Mahendrughat, Patna 800 004.
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21B (6x12.2), 21C (5x12.2) and 36A (3x12.2) on pile foundation between Jhanjharpur - Laukaha Bazar section in connection with gauge conversion of Sakri-Nirmali & Jhanjharpur -Laukha Bazar section.
Name of Work Rebuilding of major Br No. 21A (2x12.2) &
PART-I
Page 3 of 124 Chapter I East Central Railway Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (Con)/North Mahendrughat, Patna 800 004 Tender Notice No 06 of 2012-13 (Open) of North Tender No. 09 of 2012-13 (Open)/North
Forwarding Letter: Detailing salient features of the tender Issued to: _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________
Name of Work: Rebuilding of major Br No. 21A (2x12.2) & 21B (6x12.2), 21C (5x12.2) and 36A (3x12.2) on pile foundation between Jhanjharpur - Laukaha Bazar section in connection with gauge conversion of Sakri-Nirmali & Jhanjharpur -Laukha Bazar section. .
Details of Demand Draft/Railways Money Receipt towards cost of tender document. DEMAND DRAFT/Money Receipt NoISSUED BY AMOUNT Rs.Dear Sir, 1.0 Sealed tenders have been invited for and behalf of the President of India for the above mentioned work as per tender notice quoted above. A copy of the tender notice is enclosed herewith as Chapter-II. The tender document is hereby being issued to you on your request and on your having deposited the requisite cost of the tender document as per aforesaid details. The tender document is being issued with further condition that you agree to abide by the conditions laid down hereinafter in the tender document before submitting your tender. In case, the tenderer has used the documents downloaded from the internet, it is construed that the tenderer has agreed to as aforesaid. The Railway, before the due date of opening, may on its own or in response to any clarification requested or suggested by any person including that of the Tenderer, may modify the tender document at its sole discretion. The tender document includes various chapters, drawings and annexure as enclosed, which are integral parts of the tender documents. DATE
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Page 4 of 124 This tender document contains 124 pages (including cover pages) and consisting of XI Chapters.
Chapter No. I IA II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI Nature of document PART I (Cover pages) Forwarding letter Declaration by Tenderer Tender Notice/Corrigendum(s) Conditions of tender and instruction to tenderer(s) with Annexure I to XI Special conditions of Contract (General) Form of tender Summary of taxes Schedules of Work PART II (cover page) Special condition and specification for Special condition and specification for Special condition and specification foundation & sub structure Special condition and specification for Earth Work Bridge Work of contract for Pilling Work Page reference 1-2 3-5 6 7-10 11-58 59-66 67-70 71-72 73-82 83 84-91 92-96 97-115 116-124
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These tender documents also include as integral part of these documents, the East Central Railways General Conditions of Contract 2008 as amended by updated correction slips here in after referred to as GCC-2008 E.C. Railways Schedule of Rates, 2008 for Civil Engineering Department, as amended by updated correction slips hereinafter referred to as Schedule of Rates, 2008 and Standard specification contained in East Central Railway General Conditions of Contract and standard specification for Works and Materials2008 as amended by updated correction slips hereinafter referred to as GCC of Specification-2008, and all other books/codes/manuals etc. mentioned else where is these documents. These books are hereinafter called the Books of Reference. General arrangement drawings enclosed with these documents are only for guidance and may change during detailed design approval/execution stage. All the above mentioned chapters and above named documents, taken together, if not scored off, shall constitute the complete tender document hereinafter referred to as tender document and have to be read together and acted upon accordingly. No part of the tender document can be relied upon or acted upon in isolation. In the event of any conflict between the Books of reference and contents of various chapters of these documents and references therein, the matter shall be referred to Engineer, whose decision in this regard shall be final binding and conclusive. Scope of the Work: Scope of the work under this work has been described in detail in Para 5 of Chapter II. Approximate cost of the work: The tender assessed cost of the work covered by this tender is approximately Rs. 14,94,00,579.06 (Rupees Fourteen crore ninety-four Lakh five hundred seventy nine Six paisa only) as per details given in Schedules. Date of dropping and opening: As per tender notice and corrigendum as per chapter II of these documents.
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Credentials: Tenderers should submit the details of their credentials in the Annexure I & II of Chapter-III of tender document with supporting documents. Tenders submitted without credentials as per Annexure I & II of Chapter-III of Tender document are liable to be rejected. Opening of the tender: The Tender will be received/dropped in the office of CAO/Con/North, East Central Railway, Mahendrughat, Patna-800004 and CAO/Con/NR/Kashmere Gate/Delhi up to the date of dropping i.e. 20.06.2012 till 12.00 hrs when the tender box would be closed, and will be opened on 22.06.2012 at 12.30 hrs at CAO/Con/North, East Central Railway, Mahendrughat, Patna-800004 officeonly in presence of the tenderers or their authorized representatives who wish to remain present. In case the tender dropping/opening day is declared a holiday on account of any reason, the tender box shall be closed and opened at the same time & place on the next working date.
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Amount of Earnest Money: Rs. 8,97,010/- (Rupees Eight Lakh ninety seven thousand ten only). The amount of earnest money required to be deposited along with the tender has been indicated in the tender notice/Corrigendum. Validity of the tender: Tenderer shall keep his tender open for a period of 120 days from the date of opening of the tender. Period of Completion: 8 (Eight) Months. The successful Tenderer shall complete the entire work within the period is specified in the tender notice. The period starts from the date of issue of the letter of acceptance by the Railway to such Tenderer. Schedule of Items: The tenderer shall fill in his rates for doing this work on the prescribed page/sheet of the chapter VII of these documents. Rebate, if any should be quoted in Schedule D as contained in Chapter VI. Various items of the works covered under this work have been detailed in Schedules A, C-I & C-II of this tender document. Rates shall have to be quoted as percentage above or below for each schedule separately. Tenderers must not quote item wise rates. In case any tenderer quotes unified percentage for each schedule and also quotes item wise rates against individual items, no cognizance would be taken for the item wise rates quoted by the tenderers. However, railways reserves their rights to cancel any tender wherein item wise rates have been quoted. Specifications of the work: The work shall be carried out as per specifications contained in the tender document or otherwise referred to. Method Statement: The tenderer must submit Method Statement along with tender to execute the work Para 10 of Chapter IV. Advance to the Contractor: - Applicable in terms of clause 37A(a) of chapter III. Price variation clause: - Applicable in terms of clause 35 of chapter III. Purchase preference clause: -Not applicable in terms of clause 9 of Chapter-III. Incentive Bonus Clause:- Not applicable in terms of clause 37(B) of chapter-III. Stage payment on supply of steel: Not Applicable in terms of clause 43 of chapter-III. Accepting Authority:- The acceptance of this tender rests with the CAO/Con/North, E C Railway, Mahendrughat, Patna for and on behalf of the President of India.
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Enclosures: tender document Total -124 pages. Witness: 1. Signature of Tenderer(s) 2. Date: ............................
Page 6 of 124 CHAPTER-IA East Central Railway, Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (Con) North Mahendrughat, Patna 800004.
DECLARATION BY THE TENDERER

1. The tender document enclosed containing pages (---- No of pages containing tender documents and ---------- No of pages of enclosure). All the pages have been signed by me.
2. Details of cost of tender document:SN Cost of tender Details of Demand Draft/ Name of the Validity of document Money Receipt/Demand issuing bank DD/DPO Pay Order and date with address
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Details of Earnest Money :SN Amount Earnest Money of Details of Demand Draft/ Money Receipt/Demand Pay Order, Fixed Deposit etc. as per admissible in tender document and date Name of the Validity of issuing the authority with instrument address
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Details of Bank account No:SN Name of the Bank with address Bank Account no.
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Permanent Account No(PAN) :Name and style of Account holder Permanent Account No(PAN)
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My business is not banned by Railway/Govt/Public Sector etc and I am legally eligible to bid with Railways.
Witness: 1. 2.
Signature of Tenderer(s) Date: ...............................
Page 7 of 124 East Central Railway CHAPTER-II (Construction Department) OPEN TENDER NOTICE NO: - 06 of 2012-13 (Open)/North SEALED OPEN TENDERS ARE INVITED ON BEHALF OF PRESIDENT OF INDIA FOR THE UNDER MENTIONED WORKS: S N
Tender No.
Name of work
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14,94,00,579.06
Cost of tender form (Rs.)

10,000/-
Earnest money (Rs.).

8,97,010/-
Date of Time of completion dropping ---------Date of opening

08 (Eight) Month
09 of 12-13 Open)/ North
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Rebuilding of major Br No. 21A (2x12.2) & 21B (6x12.2), 21C (5x12.2) and 36A (3x12.2) on pile foundation between Jhanjharpur - Laukaha Bazar section in connection with gauge conversion of SakriNirmali & Jhanjharpur Laukha Bazar section. Rebuilding of major Br No. 65 (2x12.20), 71 (2x12.20), 75A (3x12.20), 77 (2x12.20), on pile foundation between Sakri Jhanjharpur section in connection with gauge conversion of Sakri-Nirmali & Jhanjharpur -Laukha Bazar section. Rebuilding of major Br No. 80 (3x30.50) & 81 (5X12.20) in Sakri Jhanjharpur section and Br No. 7A (3x12.2) in Jhanjharpur-Laukaha Bazar section on pile foundation in connection with gauge conversion of Sakri-Nirmali & Jhanjharpur -Laukha Bazar section. Rebuilding of major Br No. 97A (5x12.2), 111 (3x12.2), & 112 (3x12.2) on pile foundation in Jhanjharpur Nirmali section in connection with gauge conversion of Sakri-Nirmali & Jhanjharpur -Laukha Bazar section. Rebuilding of major Br No. 114 (3x12.2), 118 (2x12.2), 124 (3x12.2) & 126 (2X12.2) on pile foundation in Jhanjharpur - Nirmali section in connection with gauge conversion of SakriNirmali & Jhanjharpur Laukha Bazar section.
20.06.12 (up to 12.00 Hrs) 22.0612 at 12.30 Hrs.
9,84,79,021.60
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6,42,400/-
08 (Eight) Month
20.06.12 (up to 12.00 Hrs) 22.0612 at 12.30 Hrs.
11,81,60,628.61
10,000/
7,40,810/-
08 (Eight) Month
20.06.12 (up to 12.00 Hrs) 22.0612 at 12.30 Hrs.
10,70,12,130.08
10,000/
6,85,070/-
08 (Eight) Month
20.06.12 (up to 12.00 Hrs) 22.0612 at 12.30 Hrs. 20.06.12 (up to 12.00 Hrs) 22.0612 at 12.30 Hrs.
10,31,91,451.46
10,000/
6,65,960/-
08 (Eight) Month
2. Tender forms are available from the office of CAO/Con/EC Rly. Mahendrughat, Patna on production of demand draft from any nationalized/Scheduled bank in favour of FA & CAO/Con/ECR, Mahendrughat, Patna or money receipt issued by the Divisional
Page 8 of 124 Cashier, Sonpur/Danapur Division for the cost of tender document mentioned above between 10.00 Hrs. to 16.00 Hrs on any working day from 04.06.2012 to 19.06.2012. In case any tenderer wishes to obtain the tender document by post, Rs. 500 (Five hundred) extra should be sent by demand draft in favour of FA & CAO/C/EC Rly, Mahendrughat, Patna. 3. Tenders can be dropped in prescribed tender boxes placed in offices of the CAO/Con/E.C Rly. Mahendrughat, Patna & CAO/Con/Northern Railway, Kashmere Gate, Delhi on 20.06.2012 up to 12.00 hrs. and tender will be opened on 22.06.2012 at 12.30 Hrs in the office of CAO/Con/ECR/Mahendrughat/Patna in presence of tenderers or there authorized representative, present at the time of opening of the tender. If the office is closed on the stipulated date and time due to some unforeseen holiday, tender will be opened on the next working day at the same place & time. Tender can also be sent to chief Admn. Officer, EC Rly, Mahendrughat, Patna-4 by registered post/speed post/courier service to reach before 12.00 hrs. of the date of dropping. However, Rly. will not be responsible for non receipt or delayed receipt of such tenders.
4. The tender must be submitted with proper amount of Earnest Money in favour of FA
& CAO/Con/ECR, Mahendrughat, Patna. Tender without proper Earnest Money will be summarily rejected. The tender form is not transferable. 5. Eligibility criteria:-. Contractor must have satisfactorily completed in the last three previous financial years and current financial year up to the date of opening of the tender, one similar single work for a minimum value of 35% of Advertised tender value, is clarified as under 5.1 Similar nature of work physically completed within the qualifying period, i.e. the last 3 financial years and current financial year up to the date of opening of the tender (even though the work might have commenced before the qualifying period) should only be considered in evaluating the eligibility criteria. 5.1.2The total value of similar nature of work completed during the qualifying period and not the payments received within qualifying period alone, should be considered. In case, the final bill of similar nature of work has not been passed and final measurements have not been recorded, the paid amount including statutory deduction is to be considered. If final measurements have been recorded and work has been completed with negative variation, then also the paid amount including statutory deduction is to be considered. However, if final measurements have been recorded and work has been completed with positive variation but variation has not been sanctioned, original agreement value or last sanctioned agreement value whichever is lower should be considered for judging eligibility. 5.1.3 In the case of composite works involving combination of different works, even separate completed works of required value should be considered while evaluating the eligibility criteria. For example, in a tender for bridge work where similar nature of work has been defined as bridge work with pile foundation and PSC superstructure, a tenderer, who has completed one bridge work with pile foundation of value at least equal to 35% of the tender value and also has completed one bridge work with PSC superstructure of value at least equal to 35% of the tender value, should be considered as having fulfilled the eligibility criteria of having completed single similar nature of work.
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5.2 Total contractual payments received during last 3 financial years and in the current financial year up to the date of opening of tender, should be a minimum of 150% of advertised tender value as per audited balance sheet duly certified by the Chartered Accountant etc. Alternatively at least payment certificates from Central Govt./State Govt./Central P.S.Us/State P.S.Us and other Government Agencies for a minimum of 150% of advertised tender value may be submitted.
Credentials issued by Central Government., State Government, Central PSUs / PSEs, State PSUs PSEs and other Government Agencies shall only be acceptable. Credential from private individuals shall not be accepted. *Similar work means: Construction of bridge on pile/well foundation. Please note: I. Where an individual bids on the basis of credentials of an earlier Joint Venture/ Association of Partners/Partnership firm , credentials shall be considered in percentage of their participation in the earlier firm. II. Participation by Association of Partnership (AOP)/ Joint Venture (JV) firms are not allowed for tender value up to Rs. 25.0 Crore.
III. IV. Completion certificate of the work issued from Central Govt./State Govt./Central P.S.Us/State P.S.Us and other Government Agencies shall only be accepted, credential from Private Individuals shall not be accepted. Tenders submitted without credentials as per Annexure I & II of Tender document are liable to be rejected.
Advance to contractor is not applicable only for tender 10 of 2012-13 (Open)/North. (b) Price variation clause is applicable. (c) Incentive Bonus Payment Clause is not applicable (d) Stage payment on supply of steel is not applicable. 7. Performance Guarantee (P.G.): Please note that in addition to Security Deposit, the successful bidder shall have to submit a Performance Guarantee within 30 (thirty days) days from the date of issue of Letter of Acceptance (LOA) @ 5% of Contractual value in form of a Bank Guarantee Bond in token of commitment to complete the work successfully. Extension of time for submission of PG beyond 30(Thirty) days and up to 60(Sixty) days from the date of issue of LOA may be given by the competent authority. However, a panel interest of 15% per annum shall be charged for the delay beyond30 (Thirty) days, i.e. from 31st day after the date of issue of LOA. In case the contractor fails to submit the requisite PG even after 60(Sixty) days from the date of issue of LOA, the contract shall be terminated duly forfeiting EMD and other dues, if any payable against that contract. The failed contractor shall be debarred from participating in re-tender for that work. a) The Performance Guarantee will have to be deposited after the Letter of acceptance has been issued but before signing of the Agreement and should be valid up to date of completion plus 60 days beyond that. PG may be required to be extended further in case of extension of DOC for extended DOC plus 60 days beyond that. Details in this regard are available in the Tender document.
b) c) Performance guarantee shall be released after satisfactory completion of the work. The procedure for releasing should be same as for security deposit. Whenever the contracts are rescinded the security deposit should be forfeited and the performance guarantee shall be encashed and the balance work should be got done independently without risk & cost of the failed conractor. The failed contractor shall be debarred from participating in the tender for executing the balance work. If the failed contractor is a JV or partnership firm, then every member /Partner of such firm shall be debarred from participating in the tender for balance work either in his/ her individual capacity or as partner of any other JV/Partnership firm.
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Page 10 of 124 Whereas Income tax and Sales tax shall be deducted from the Contractors bills as per extant instructions issued from time to time, the Contractor shall furnish certificate of payment of Royalty charges from the concerned State Mining department before payment of such bills. 9. Note: (1) Rates shall have to be quoted as percentage above or below for each schedule separately. Tenderers must not quote item wise rates. In case any contractor quotes unified percentage for each schedule and item wise rates against individual items also, no cognizance would be taken for the item wise rates quoted by the contractors. However, railways reserves their rights to cancel any tender where item wise rates have been quoted. 8 (2) i.
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Tender notice is also available on http://www.tenders.gov.in or http://www.ecr.indianrailways.gov.in The tender documents will also be available on website http://www.tenders.gov.in or http://www.ecr.indianrailways.gov.in during the above mentioned period and the same can be down loaded and used as tender document for submitting tender. This facility is available free of cost. However, the demand draft as prescribed above towards the cost of tender documents will have to be enclosed with the tender. Incase the tender is not accompanied with the valid demand draft for the cost of the tender document as detailed above, the tender will be summarily rejected. Tenderers are requested to visit the website 10 days before for latest corrigendum/corrections etc in response to this tender. Tenderer should sign each and every page of tender documents and its Annexure/enclosures attached by them. A certificate in this regards should be furnished by them as per proforma furnished in tender documents. No cognizance will be given in any unsigned document enclosed as ANNEXURE/ Enclosure.
Dy. Chief Engineer/Con/North For CAO/Con/North
Page 11 of 124 CHAPTER-III East Central Railway, Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (Con)/North Mahendrughat, Patna 800004. Tender No. 09 of 2012-13 (Open)/North CONDITIONS OF TENDER AND INSTRUCTIONS TO TENDERER(S)
1. a) TENDERER: The person(s)/Firm(s) who submitted these tender documents as an offer to carry out the work detailed in chapter II are termed tenderer(s) in these documents. b) THE CONTRACTOR (S): The tenderer(s) whose tender(s) has been accepted by the Railway shall thereafter be termed Contractor(s) and these tender documents of the accepted tender(s) shall become a part of the Contract/Agreement between the Contractors and the Railway.
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BOOKS OF REFERENCE: These tender documents are to be read with the followings books/codes/manuals with versions updated/corrected/modified upto the date of tender opening: (A) Railway/IRS books of reference:1) E.C. Railway Engineering Department- General Conditions of Contract 2008 as amended by updated correction slips termed GCC 2008. 2) E.C. Railway Engineering Department Schedule of Rates, 2008, as amended by updated correction slips (termed SOR, 2008) up to the date of tender dropping. 3) Standard specifications contained in East Central Railway Hand Book Standard Specification for works and materials 2008. 4) I.R.S Code of practice for plain concrete for plain concrete construction, 1982. 5) I.R.S. Code of practice for electric welding of mild steel structures. 6) Indian Railway Code of Practice of Plain/Reinforced and pre-stressed concrete for general/bridge construction (Concrete bridge Code 1997 incorporating all upto date Correction Slips). 7) Indian Railway Standard (IRS) Bridge sub-structure and foundations codecode of practice for the design of the substructure and foundation of Bridges adopted 1936 Revised 1985 (Hereinafter referred to as Substructure Code)- with up to date correction slips. 8) IRS : Welded Bridge code for steel bridge girders- 2001 9) IRS : Fabrication and Erection of Steel Girder Bridges & Locomotive Turn Tables. (B1- 2001). 10) IRS: Erection and Riveting of Bridge Girders (B2-1979) 11) IRS: Specification for Steel Bridge code Revised 1962. 12) Indian Railways Bridge Manual, 1998. 13) Indian Railways P. Way Manual. 2004 14) Indian Railways Works Manual 2000 15) Indian Railways MANUAL ON THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF WELL AND PILE FOUNDATIONS(1985) (B) Indian Roads Congress codes and specifications.
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Page 12 of 124 IRC-5: Standard specifications and Code of practice for Road Bridges Section I General features of design IRC-21: Standard specifications and Code of practice for Road BridgesSections III- Cement concrete (Plain & reinforced) IRC-24: Standard specifications and Code of Practice for Road Bridge Section V- Steel Road Bridges. IRC- 83: Bearings for bridges. IRC-78: Road Bridges. IRC-87: Design and erection of false work for road bridges.
Indian Standards Codes & Specifications: 34 White lead for paints. 57 Red lead for paints and other purposes. 75 Linseed oil, raw and refined. 77 Linseed oil, boiled for paints. 102 Ready mixed paints, brushing, red lead, non-settling, priming. 104 Ready mixed paint, brushing, zinc chrome, priming. 123 Ready mixed paints, brushing, finishing, semi-gloss, for general purposes to Indian Colors etc. IS: 280- Mild steel wire for general engineering purposes. IS: 383- Coarse and fine aggregates from natural sources for concrete. IS: 456- Plain and reinforced concrete. IS: 487- Brush, paint and varnish. IS: 516 Method of test for strength of concrete. IS: 786- Conversion factors and conversion tables. IS: 800 General constructions in steel. IS: 814- Covered electrodes for manual metal arc welding. IS: 816- Metal arc welding for general construction in mild steel. IS: 817- Training and testing of metal arc welders. IS: 819- Resistance spot welding for light assemblies in mild steel IS: 875 (all 5 parts) design loads (other than earthquakes) for buildings and structures. IS: 883 Design of structural timber in buildings. IS: 887 Animal tallow. IS: 1024 Welding in bridges and structures subject to dynamic loading. IS: 1148- Hot rolled rivet bars (up to 40mm dia ) for structural purposes. IS: 1149- High tensile steel rivet bars for structural purposes. IS: 1182- Radiographic examination of butt joints in steep plates. IS: 1200 (all relevant parts) - Method of measurement of building and civil engineering works. IS: 1261 - Seam welding in mild steel. IS: 1270- Metric steel tape measure. IS: 1323- Oxy-acetylene welding for structural work in mild steel. IS: 1343 Prestressed concrete. IS: 1786- High strength deformed steel bars & wires for concrete reinforcement. IS: 1791 Batch type concrete mixers. IS: 1852- Rolling and cutting tolerances for hot rolled steel products. IS: 1892- Subsurface investigations for foundations. IS: 1915- Steel bridge code IS: 1929 Hot forged steel rivets for hot closing (12 to 36mm dia) IS: 2062 Steel for general structural purposes. IS: 2074- Ready mixed paint, air drying, red oxide-zinc chrome, priming. IS: IS: IS: IS: IS: IS: IS:
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Page 13 of 124 IS: 2131- Standard penetration test for soils. IS: 2132- Thin walled tube sampling of soils IS: 2339- Aluminum paints for general purposes, in dual container. IS: 2386 (all 8 parts) Tests for aggregates for concrete. IS: 2595- Radiographic testing. IS: 2720 (all 41 parts) - Method of tests for soils. IS: 2911- Design and construction of pile foundation. IS: 3085- Method of test for permeability of cement mortar and concrete. IS: 3502- Steel Chequered plates. IS: 3764- Safety code for excavation work. IS: 3955- Design and construction of well foundations. IS: 4081- Safety code for blasting and related drilling operations. IS: 4326- Earthquake resistant design and construction of buildings. IS: 5624- Foundation bolts. IS: 5666- Etch primer. IS: 6586- Metal spraying for protection of iron steel. IS: 6925- Methods of test for determination of water soluble chlorides in concrete admixtures. IS; 7205- Safety code for erection of structural steel work. IS: 7215- Tolerances for fabrication of steel structures. IS: 7293- Safety code for working with construction machinery. IS: 7320 Concrete slump test apparatus. IS: 8112- 43 Grade OPC. IS: 8500- Structural steel Micro alloyed (Medium and high strength qualities). IS: 8629- Protection of iron and steel structures from atmospheric corrosion. IS: 9103 Admixtures for concrete. IS: 9595- Metal Arc Welding. IS: 10262- Concrete mix design. IS: 13920- Ductile detailing of reinforced concrete structures subjected to seismic forces. SP 6, 7, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 34, 36, 52, 60.
(D) Miscellaneous: (1) UIC-772R: Bearings of rail bridges. (2) BS-5400 (all parts) (3) BS-1449, 3484, 1134, 5296 Note: The books of reference shall also include further mentioned in above mentioned books of references. 3.
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SCOPE OF TENDER: Rebuilding of major Br No. 21A (2x12.2) & 21B (6x12.2), 21C (5x12.2) and 36A (3x12.2) on pile foundation between Jhanjharpur - Laukaha Bazar section in connection with gauge conversion of Sakri-Nirmali & Jhanjharpur -Laukha Bazar section.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: As per tender notice & Corrigendum in chapter II of these documents EARNEST MONEY: The tenderer shall be required to deposit earnest money with the tender for the Performance with the stipulation to keep the offer open till such date as specified in the tender notice, under the condition of tender. The earnest money shall be calculated as:-
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Value of the Work (Tender Value) For works estimated to cost up to Rs. 1 crore For works estimated to cost more than Rs.1 crore Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) 2% of the estimated cost of the work. Rs. 2 lakhs plus 1/2 % (half percent) of the excess of estimated cost of work beyond Rs. 1 crore subject to a maximum of Rs.1 crore
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The earnest money shall be rounded to the nearest Rs. 10. The earnest money shall be applicable for all modes of tendering. It shall be understood that the tender documents have been sold/issued to the tenderer and tenderer is permitted to tender in consideration of stipulation on his part, that after submitting his tender he will not resile from his offer or modify the terms and conditions there of in manner not acceptable to the engineer. Should the tenderer fail to observe or comply with said stipulation, the aforesaid amount shall be liable to be forfeited to the Railway. The earnest money should be in cash or in any of the following forms. The earnest money should be in cash or in the form of deposit receipts, pay orders or demand drafts executed by State Bank of India or any of the Nationalized Bank or by a scheduled bank. TENDER WITHOUT EARNEST MONEY: Tender(s) not accompanied by full earnest money, in the requisite manner, as aforesaid, shall under no circumstances be entertained and will summarily be rejected at the time of opening itself without further reference to the tenderer(s). APPROPRIATION TOWARDS SECURITY DEPOSIT: If his tender is accepted this earnest money mention in sub clause (a) above will retained as part security for the due and faithful fulfillment of the contract in terms of clause 16 of the General Condition of Contract. The earnest money of other Tenderers shall, save as here in before provided, be returned to them, but the Railway shall not be responsible for any loss or depreciation that may happen there to while in the possession, not be liable to pay interest there on to. REFUND: The Earnest Money of the tenderer(s) whose tender(s) have not been accepted, shall save as herein provided, be returned to them but the Railway shall not be responsible for any loss or depreciation that may happen thereto while in their possession. No interest will be payable on the Earnest Money. Earnest money deposited in cash shall be refunded by a cheque drawn in favour of the tenderer and sent to him by Registered Post at the address of the tenderer given by him in the FORM OF TENDER contained as Chapter `V of the tender document The cheques may be drawn on Reserve Bank of India or on State Bank of India, as indicated by the Tender(s) in the aforesaid FORM OF TENDER. In case of the Earnest Money deposited through other instruments, the relevant instruments, duly released shall be sent to the tenderer(s) at the address given by him in these tender documents, by Regd. Post A/D. The Railway shall not be responsible for any postal delays or other causes beyond its control. FORFEITURE It shall be understood that these documents have been issued to the tenderer(s) and the tenderer is permitted to tender in consideration of the stipulations on his part that after submitting his tender, he will not resile from his offer or modify
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Page 15 of 124 the rates, terms and conditions thereof in a manner not acceptable to the Railway. Should the Tenderer fail to observe or comply with the said stipulations full amount of Earnest Money shall be forfeited by the Railway. Further, if any modification of rates, terms and conditions is made by the Tenderer after opening but within the period of validity of the tender and the Railway accepts this tender without those modifications and the letter of acceptance is issued to the tenderer without such modifications, and tenderer refuses to accept the award of contract, the total Earnest Money shall be forfeited. Full earnest money is liable to be forfeited in case any statement, declaration made by the tenderer is proved wrong/false/incomplete/or such as to withhold any information relevant to the consideration of the tender. In the event of tenderer(s), whose tender is accepted, resiles from the contract after issue of letter of acceptance or fails to commence the work within 15(Fifteen) days of issue of letter of acceptance or handing over of the site, which ever is late, the provisions contained in clause 62 of GCC - 2008 shall be applicable. MODE OF PAYMENT: The total Earnest Money as stipulated in these documents, may be paid by the tenderer in any one of the following, and no other, forms: Deposit in cash with Divisional Cashier/East Central Railway, Sonepur or Danapur and to attach the money receipt obtained thereof with the tender documents. Deposit receipts, pay orders or demand drafts executed by State Bank of India or any of the Nationalized Bank or by a scheduled bank. Deposit receipts executed by the schedule Banks (other than the State Bank of India and the Nationalized Bank.) approved by the Reserve Bank of India for this purpose. The Railways will not, however, accept deposit receipt without getting in writing the concurrence of the Reserve Bank of India.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING TENDER DOCUMENTS: The tenderer shall submit, as his tender, all these documents intact, without severing detaching, defacing or removing any part thereof. After completing these documents, The tenderer(s) shall sign each page of these documents, before submission, intact, without severing, detaching, defacing or removing any part thereof, as per instructions contained in these documents. Tender form containing over writings, scribbling, erased rates and/or rate-not shown in words are liable to be rejected .In case of any discrepancy in rates shown in figures and words being noticed, the accepting authority may at his discretion accept the lower of the two. The tenderer must completely and carefully fill up the letter entitled FORM OF TENDER i.e. Chapter `V of these documents. The Tenderer shall not leave any space blank, where he is expected to make any entry. Eligibility Criteria: Wherever Eligibility Criteria is specified in the tender notice, the tenderer shall submit specific details of work executed and payment received thereof along with relevant documents which make him eligible for tendering. If the tenderer gives any wrong information or suppresses any material fact to cover his eligibility, his tender will be summarily rejected. False / Incomplete statement: Any statement/declaration made by the Tenderer, if proved wrong or false or incomplete or such as to withhold any information relevant to the award of the tender, at any stage of the tender or in the event of his tender having been accepted at any stage of the contract, shall
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QUOTATIONS OF RATES: The tenderer shall fill in his rates for doing this work on the prescribed page/sheet of the chapter VI of these documents. Rebate, if any should be quoted in Schedule D as contained in Chapter VII. Various items of the works covered under this work have been detailed in Schedules A, C-I & C-II of this tender document. Rates shall have to be quoted as percentage above or below for each schedule separately. Tenderers must not quote item wise rates. In case any tenderer quotes unified percentage for each schedule and also quotes item wise rates against individual items, no cognizance would be taken for the item wise rates quoted by the tenderers. However, railways reserves the right to cancel any tender wherein item wise rates has been quoted. Tenderer should quote their rate after careful study of the tender documents and site conditions, with full understanding of the implications thereof.
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REBATE: If any tenderer(s) wishes to give any rebate on the rates quoted by him, the same shall be quoted by him in schedule-D of these documents. It is to be noted that such rebate, if offered, shall apply in all the schedules (other than schedule-D) of these tender documents. Such a rebate shall be totally unconditional. In case a tenderer does not wish to give any rebate, he should write NIL in the ScheduleD. In case nothing has been quoted by the tenderer in schedule-D and the space is left blank, it will be treated as NIL and shall be so recorded (in the schedule-D) at the time of opening of the tender. If any tenderer(s) gives any conditional rebate, such rebate shall not be considered for evaluation of the tender, although the Railway may avail of the same in case the tender is awarded to such a tenderer(s). PURCHASE PREFERENCE: Not Applicable. SUBMISSION OF TENDER : Tender must be placed in sealed envelop super-scribed with the tender number, name of work and date and place of opening and should be submitted in the office of CAO/Con/E. C. Railway, Mahendrughat, Patna on or before the date of opening of the tender. Tender, sealed and super-scribed as mentioned above, can also be sent by Registered Post to the above named office, provided that, no tender received after the time and date specified above for closing of tender box, shall be considered. Railway shall not be responsible for Postal delays. The requisite total Earnest Money as per chapter I should be submitted in requisite manner along with the tender documents without which tender shall be summarily rejected and rates quoted will not be read out. Late tenders / delayed tenders: Offers shall be dealt with as per extent rules of Railways, and the tenderer(s) shall have no right of consideration of such a tender (s). SPECIAL CONDITIONS BY TENDERER (S) The tenderer(s) is, normally, not expected to make any special condition / stipulation of his own and is expected to submit his tender in accordance with the conditions / stipulations contained in these documents. If, however, the tenderer (s) wishes to make any special condition/stipulations or wishes to intimate the Railway about any matter of important, he may do so in a covering letter. The accepting authority reserves the right not to accept any such special stipulations and conditions made by the tenderer and may reject the tender(s) as unacceptable without any reference to the tenderer(s) or may ask the tenderer to withdraw any or all such stipulations before awarding the contract and in the event of his refusals to do so, may not accept his tender. In case, any special conditions and/or stipulations are made by the tenderer, he shall also indicate, along with such conditions/stipulations, the cost of withdrawal of the same. The accepting authority reserves the right, either to accept the conditions/stipulations made by the tenderer or the cost thereof, at its sole discretion. If such cost is not indicated, it will be construed that the tenderer(s) is not in a position to withdraw these conditions at any cost and tender may be adjudged accordingly without any reference to tenderer(s). The detail shall be furnished in performa given in Annexure VIII.
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CLARIFICATION OF BIDS SUBMITTED: To assist in the examination, evaluation and comparison of tenders, the Railway or its authorized person may ask the tenderer(s) for clarification(s), if any needed, for such examination, evaluation and comparison. The request for such clarification etc and the response thereof shall be in writing. Railway may conduct a pre-bid meeting/conference for clarifications and obtaining suggestions from prospective tenderers for which, date and venue shall be notified. INSPECTION OF DATA: Copies of drawing and other information for the work, relevant to this tender, may be inspected in the office of the Chief Admin. Officer (Con) / East Central Railway, Mahendrughat, Patna 800 004 or Dy. Chief Engineer (Con)/II/Darbhanga, East Central Railway, on any working day during office hours. INSPECTION OF SITE: Tenderer must acquaint himself, at his own responsibility, risk and expense, with all information of the site(s) of work(s) and their neighborhoods, actual working and other prevalent conditions, laws/regulations, availability and suitability of local labourers, materials, surface and sub soil condition, accessibility of site(s) of work(s) sources and availability of water, electricity, camp site, market, banking facilities etc. and all such possible factors as have bearing on rates and progress of the work under this tender and should be taken all this factors into consideration before submitting this tender. PERIOD OF VALIDITY OF TENDER: The Tenderer(s) shall keep the offer open for a minimum period as stated in Chapter- I from the date of opening of the tender within which the Tenderer(s) cannot withdraw or modify his offer. The Railway Administration may request the Tenderer(s) to extend the validity. The earnest money referred to in this chapter is for the performance of the stipulation to keep the tender open for the aforesaid period. It shall be understood that the tender documents have been issued to the Tenderer(s) and the Tenderer(s) is permitted participate in the tender in consideration of the stipulation on his part that after submitting his tender, he will not resale from his offer or modify the same in any manner not acceptable to the Railway within the period of validity. Should the Tenderer fail to observe or comply with this stipulation; the Railways shall forfeit the full amount of Earnest Money. TENDERERS POSTAL ADDRESS: Every tenderer shall state in the tender, his complete postal address, E-Mail ID, name and contact numbers of key personnels fully and clearly in Chapter - VForm of Tenders. Any communication sent in time to the Tenderer by post at the said address shall be deemed to have reached the Tenderer duly and in time. Important documents shall be sent by Registered post. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: The Tenderer must keep the Railway informed of any change of address during the currency of tender of work in his own interest.
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16. i). TENDERS TO BE SIGNED BY AUTHORISED PERSONS: The Tender shall be signed by individual or individuals legally authorized to enter into commitments on Behalf of the Tenderer(s). Any individual or individuals signing the tender documents or other documents Connected there with, should specify whether he is signing the said documents:As a Sole Proprietor of the firm or Attorney of the Sole proprietor. Or As a Partner of partnership firm Or As a Director, manager or secretary in a Limited company (duly authorized by a resolution passed by the board of directors or in presence of the authority conferred by the memorandum of association). In case of Joint Ventures/Consortium: all the constituents or the attorney duly authorized by all of them. In the case of a firm not registered under the Indian partnership act, all the partners or the attorney duly authorized by all of them, should sign the tender documents and all other concerned documents. Requisite power of attorney or such other documents empowering the individual or the individuals to sign the Tender document should be furnished in original, along with the Tender. The Railway shall not be bound by any Power of Attorney granted by the Tenderer or by changes in the composition of the firm made subsequent to the execution of the Contract agreement. It may, however, recognize such Power of Attorney and changes, after obtaining legal advice to the satisfaction of the Railway, the cost of which will be borne by the Tenderer. CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION OF JOINT VENTURE FIRMS IN WORKS TENDER FOR TENDERS OF VALUE MORE THAN Rs. 25.00 CRORE 17.1 Separate identity/name shall be given to the joint venture firm. 17.2 Number of members in a JV firm shall not be more than three if the work involves only one department (say Civil or S&T or Electrical ) and shall be not be more than five if the work involves more than one department. 17.3 A member of JV firm shall not be permitted to participate either in individual capacity or as a member of another JV firm in the same tender. 17.4 The tender form shall be purchased and submitted only in the name of the JV firm and not in the name of any constituent member 17.5 Normally EMD shall be submitted only in the name of the JV and not in the name of constituent member. However in exceptional cases EMD in the name of lead partner can be accepted subject to submission of specific request letter form lead partner stating the reasons for not submitting the EMD in the name of JV and giving written confirmation form the JV partners to the effect that the EMD submitted by the lead partner may be deemed as EMD submitted by JV firm. 17.6 One of the members of the JV firm shall be the lead members of the JV firm who shall be the lead member of the JV firm who shall have a majority (at least 51%) share of interest in the JV firm. The other members shall have a share of not less than 20% each in case of JV firms without three members and not less than 10% each in case of JV firms with more than three members. In case of JV firm with foreign members(s),the lead member has to be an Indian firm with a minimum share of 51%.
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Page 21 of 124 Governing laws the joint venture agreement shall in all respect be governed by and interpreted in accordance with Indian Laws. Authorized Member Joint venture members shall authorize one of the members on behalf of the joint venture firm to deal with the tender, sign the agreement or enter into contract in respect of the said tender, to receive payment, to witness joint measurement of work done, to sign measurement books and similar such action in respect of the said tender/contract. All notices/correspondences with respect to the contract would be sent only to this authorized member of the JV firm. No members of the Joint Venture shall have the right to assign or transfer the interest right or liability in the contract without the written consent of the other members and that of the employer (railways) in respect of the said tender/contract. Documents to be enclosed by the JV firm along with the tender. In case one or more of the members of the JV firm is /are partnership firm(s), following documents shall be submitted : (a) Notary certified copy of the Partnership Deed, (b) Consent of all the partners to enter into the Joint Venture Agreement on a stamp paper of appropriate value(in original) (c) Power of Attorney (duly registered as per prevailing law ) in favour of one of the partners to sign the MOU and JV Agreement on behalf of the partners and create liability against the firm. In case one or more members is/are Proprietary Firm or HUF the following documents shall be enclosed. Affidavit or Stamp paper of appropriate value declaring that his concern is a Proprietary Concern and he is sole proprietor of the Concern or he is in position of KARTA of Hindu Undivided Family and he has the authority power and consent given by other partners to act on behalf on HUF. In case one or more members is/are limited companies the following documents shall be submitted : (a) Notary certified copy of resolution of the Directors of the Company, permitting the company to enter into a JV agreement, authorizing MD or one of the Directors or Managers if the Company to sign MOU, JV agreement, such other documents required to be signed in behalf of the company and enter into liability against the company and/or do any other act on behalf of the company. (b) Copy of Memorandum and articles of Association of the company. (c) Power of Attorney(duly registered as per prevailing law) by the company Authorizing the person to do/act mentioned in the Para (a) above. All the members of the JV shall certify that they have not been black listed or debarred by railways or any other Ministry/department of the Govt. of India/State Govt. from participation in tenders/contract in the past either in there individual capacity or the JV firm or partnership firm in which they were members/partners. Credentials & Qualifying criteria : Technical and financial eligibility of the JV firm shall be adjudged based on satisfactory fulfillment of the following criteria:
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Technical eligibility criteria: Either the JV firm or any one of the members of the JV firm must have satisfactory completed in the last three previous financial years and the current financial year up to date of opening of the tender, one similar single work for a minimum value of 35% of advertised tender value. OR 17.16.1.1 In case of composite works (e.g. works involving more than one distinct component such as Civil Engineering works, S&T works, Electrical works, OHE works etc. and in the case of major brides, substructure and superstructure etc.), at least 35% of the value of each component of similar nature should have been satisfactory completed by the JV firm or any one of the members of the JV firm in the previous three financial years and the current financial year up to the date of opening of tender. In such cases what constitutes a component in a composite work shall be clearly defined as part of the tender condition without any ambiguity. NOTE: Value of a completed work done by a member in an earlier partnership firm or a JV firm shall be reckoned only to the extent of the concerned members share in that partnership firm/JV firm for the purpose of satisfying his compliance of the above mentioned technical eligibility criterias in the tender under consideration. 17.16.2 Financial eligibility criteria:The contractual payments received by the JV firm or the arithmetic sum of contractual payments received by all the members of JV firm in the previous three financial years and the current financial year up to the date of opening of tender shall be at least 150% of the estimated value of the work as mentioned in the tender. NOTE: Contractual payment received by a members in an earlier JV firm shall be reckoned only to the extent of the concerned members share in that JV firm for the purpose of satisfying compliance of the above mentioned financial eligibility criteria in tender under consideration. Alternatively at least payment certificates from Central Govt./State Govt./Central P.S.Us/State P.S.Us and other Government Agencies for a minimum of 150% of advertised tender value may be submitted. NOTE: Contractual payment received by a members in an earlier JV firm shall be reckoned only to the extent of the concerned members share in that JV firm for the purpose of satisfying compliance of the above mentioned financial eligibility criteria in tender under consideration. 17.16.1 18. EX. RAILWAY OFFICERS AS TENDERER (S): Should a Tenderer be, himself, a retired employee having held a Gazetted rank in any of the Railways, owned and administered by the President of India, or should a Tenderer, being a partnership firm, have, as one or more of its partners, such retired employee(s) as aforesaid, or, should the Tenderer being an incorporate company, have any such person(s) as aforesaid, as sits Director(s), or, should the tenderer have, in his employment, any person(s), as aforesaid, full information of such person(s) shall be submitted in Annexure III to this Chapter of these Tender documents. Further, in cases, where such a person(s), as aforesaid, has retired from the Railway service within two years of the date of opening of the Tender, the Tenderer(s) shall furnish a copy of the permission of the President of India, permitting such a person(s), as aforesaid,
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i) TENDERER (S) RELATIVE EMPLOYED AS GAZETTED OFFICER In case of a Tenderer(s) being an individual having a relative(s) employed in any Gazetted capacity in the East Central Railway or in the case of partnership firm/or company incorporated under the Indian Company law, should any partner(s) /Director(s) or relatives of the partner(s) / Director(s) or share holder (s), be employed in any Gazetted capacity in the East Central Railway, detailed information about such Gazetted employee(s) shall also be furnished in the aforesaid Annexure III of Chapter-III. TESTIMONIALS: The tenderer(s) shall submit along with the tender(s), the particulars of all works awarded or taken up by him for execution during the 3 years preceding the date of opening of this tender, irrespective of whether the same have been completed or are still continuing or were terminated, in the Performa enclosed as Annexure-I to this Chapter. The figures of cost indicated in the Performa at Annexure-I will not include the cost of materials supplied free of cost by the client to contractor. The said Performa should be filled up by the tenderer in respect of all the works done by him, whether for the Railways or for any other client. The tenderer shall submit photocopies of certificates and testimonials from the clients/departments to establish the correctness of the data given by him in the aforesaid Performa, and also certificates certifying satisfactory Performance and completion of works. The Railway reserves the right to verify the correctness of such data in such a manner they considered fit and appropriate. The details of contractual receipts shall be filled in Performa as per annexure II. The tenderer(s) shall also enclose bank certificates showing the financial stability to undertake work of such magnitude as is covered by this tender. The tenderer(s) shall also submit a list of court cases filed and number of arbitration cases in progress as demanded by him from the Railway or other clients during the 5 years preceding the date of opening of this tender as per Annexure-IV & V of Chapter-III. In the event of the tenderer not giving this information the railway shall compile such data in the said format from available records and the tenderer(s) shall have no right to question the correctness or completeness of such data and Railways may not consider the offer itself as it will amount to incompletely filled tender form. LIST OF EQUIPMENTS/TOOLS, TECHNICAL PERSONNELS: The tenderer(s) shall submit list of equipments/tools with him and the list of technical personals in Performa given in Annexure-VI & VII of Chapter-III. The tenderer(s) should also submit a specific detail along with tender indicating list of personnel and plant and machinery (owned and hired separately) proposed to be deployed for the subject work. The tenderer(s) without this information may be treated as if the tenderer(s) has no organization and no equipments and tender will be judged accordingly. SALES TAX CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE: Tender should be accompanied by the up to date Sales Tax Clearance Certificate in From XXXVIII or any other appropriate stipulated format, issued by the appropriate Commercial Tax Officer in favour of the Company, the firm or the tenderer(s) as the case may be, in respect of all works contract or purchase contract to be executed in West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, U.P. and M.P. area.
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22. i) NEGOTIATION: The accepting authority reserve the right to enter into negotiations with the L-1 or more (in special case) tenderer(s) before acceptance of the tender in order to clarify special conditions or reduction of rates, or, for changes in scope of the work etc, at its sole discretion. L-1 should be defined as the lowest, valid, eligible and technically acceptable tenderer. In tenders, providing the purchase preference in favour of PSUs, if the quoted rates of L-1 are considered high and negotiation are resorted to, such negotiation may be held with the original L-1 as also the lowest PSU whose original offer is not higher by more than 10% of the original L-1. Provision of Purchase preference in terms of PSUs will be applicable on negotiated offer. Should such negotiation with the tenderer(s) be entered into, the tenderer(s) shall not be permitted to increase their quoted rates under any circumstances, even if it includes withdrawal / modification of such special conditions as are given by the tenderer(s) along with their original tender. ACCEPTANCE OF TENDER: The accepting authority, reserves the right to divide the tender amongst more than one Tenderers, if deemed necessary, and also to reject any or all tenders received without assigning any reason and does not bind himself to accept the lowest or any other tender. The accepting authority reserves the right to split up the work without reference to the tenderer(s) and may accept the tender in respect of any portion of the work. LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE: The acceptance of the tender shall be communicated by Registered Post with A/D at the address given by the Tenderer in these tender documents. The letter of acceptance will remain operative till a formal Contract/ Agreement is executed and signed by and between the Contractor and competent officer of the Railway, for and on behalf of the President of India, after which the letter of acceptance will merge in the said formal agreement. The Railway shall not intimate to the tenderer(s) whose tenders have not been accepted and the result of their tender(s). However, Earnest Money will be refunded as per clause 5(iv) above. AGREEMENT: The Railway shall prepare the agreement and intimate the contractor of its preparations whereupon the contractor shall sign the same within seven days of the receipt of the intimation. The agreement can be drawn only after the contractor deposits the requisite amount of Performance Guarantee (P.G) in the requisite form. The amount of P.G. in the requisite form must be submitted within 30(Thirty) days from the date of issue of acceptance letter. Extension of time for submission of PG beyond 30(Thirty) days and up to 60(Sixty) days from the date of issue of LOA may be given by the Authority who is competent to sign contract agreement. However, a
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Page 25 of 124 panel interest of 15% per annum shall be charged for the delay beyond30(Thirty) days, i.e. from 31st day after the date of issue of LOA. In case the contractor fails to submit the requisite PG even after 60(Sixty) days from the date of issue of LOA, the contract shall be terminated duly forfeiting EMD and other dues, if any payable against that contract. The failed contractor shall be debarred from participating in re-tender for that work. Note:-Penal interest for the submission of PG shall be deposited either by contractor in cash with Divisional Cashier(Sonpur or Danapur) or will be deducted from first on account bill of the contractor.
(iii) The Railway shall pay such number of on account bills as may become payable to the contractor, subject to a maximum of One On- Accounts bill limited to a maximum value of 10% of the Contract value, up to the expiry of 60 days from the date of issue the letter of acceptance, on the strength of the letter of acceptance and further running bills will be paid only on execution of the agreements. However, no On account bill or payment of any nature will be made till the Performance Guarantee Bond has been deposited, verified and found to be valid and correct. This contract agreement shall be entered into by the Railway with the Contractor(s) on the explicit understanding that the contractor(s) shall abide by all the conditions of these documents and that their implications had been fully understood by the contractor before tendering for this work. A photo copy of PAN card issued by Income Tax Department in the name of firm/contractual agency in any form (viz. individual, proprietorship, JV/Consortium etc) should be submitted at the time of entering into agreement with the Railway. SECURITY DEPOSIT BY CONTRACTOR The Contractor shall furnish total Security Deposit including initial security deposit, at the rate mentioned in clause 16(2) of the GCC:-2008 which shall be 5% of the contract value. The total Earnest Money of the tenderer shall be adjusted to Initial Security Deposit which will merge with the total Security Deposit. Remaining Security Deposit/rate shall be recovered as under:The rate of recovery shall be at the rate of 10% of the bill amount till the full security deposit is recovered. For works contract of value less than Rs. 50.00(Fifty) Crore :- Security Deposits will be recovered only from the running bills of the contract and no other mode of collecting SD such as SD in the form of instruments like BG, FD etc. shall be accepted towards Security Deposit. For works contract of value equal to or more than Rs. 50.00(Fifty) Crore:Security Deposits may be accepted in form of irrevocable Bank Guarantee, however in case risk and cost tender security deposit shall be recovered only from running bills. Penalty for failure of Railway PSUs ( Not Applicable) In the event of the failure of the Railway PSU to successfully execute the contract as per terms & conditions laid down in the agreement, a penalty equivalent to 5% of the original value of contract would be levied. Performance Guarantee (P.G) The procedure for obtaining Performance Guarantee is outlined below: (a) The successful bidder shall have to submit a Performance Guarantee (PG) within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of Letter of Acceptance (LOA). Extension of time for submission of PG beyond 30 (thirty) days and up to 60 days from the date of issue of LOA may be given by the Authority who is competent to
(iv)
(v)
26. i) ii. (a) (b)
(c )
27.
28.
Page 26 of 124 sign the contract agreement. However, a penal interest of 15%per annum shall be charged for the delay beyond 30 (thirty) days, i.e. from 31st day after the date of issue of LOA. In case the contractor fails to submit the requisite PG even after 60 days from the date of issue of LOA, the contract shall be terminated duly forfeiting EMD and other dues, if any payable against that contract. The failed contractor shall be debarred from participating in re-tender for that work. Note: (i) PG @ 10% of accepted tender value will have to be deposited by failed contractor against whom risk & cost tender has been invited.(for contracts governed by old condition) (ii) Penal interest for the submission of PG shall be deposited either by contractor in cash with Divisional Cashier(Sonpur or Danapur) or will be deducted from first on account bill of the contractor. (b) The successful bidder shall submit the Performance Guarantee (PG) in any of the following forms, amounting to 5% of the contract value: (i) A deposit of Cash; (ii) Irrevocable Bank Guarantee; (iii) Government Securities including State Loan Bonds at 5'Yobelow the market value; (iv) Deposit Receipts, Pay Orders, Demand Drafts and Guarantee Bonds. These forms of Performance Guarantee could be either of the State Bank India or of any of the Nationalized Banks; (v) Guarantee Bonds executed or Deposits Receipts tendered by all Scheduled Banks; (vi) A Deposit in the Post Office Saving Bank; (vii) A Deposit in the National Savings Certificates; (viii) Twelve years National Defence Certificates; (ix) Ten years Defence Deposits; (x) National Defence Bonds and ` (xi) Unit Trust Certificates at 5% below market value or at the face value Whichever is less. Also, FDR in favour of FA& CAO (free from any encumbrance) may be accepted.
NOTE: The instruments as listed above will also be acceptable for Guarantees in case of Mobilization Advance. (c) The Performance Guarantee shall be submitted by the successful bidder after the Letter Of Acceptance (LOA) has been issued, but before signing of the contract agreement. This P.G. shall be initially valid up to the stipulated date of completion plus 60 days beyond that. In case, the time completion of work gets extended, the contractor shall get the validity of P.G. extended to cover such extended time for completion of work plus 60 days. (d) The value of PG to be submitted by the contractor will not change for Variation up to 25%(either increase or decrease). In case during the course of execution, value of the contract increases by more than 25% of the original contract value, an additional Performance Guarantee amounting to 5% (five percent) for the excess value over the original contract value shall be deposited by the contractor." The Performance Guarantee (PG) shall be released after physical completion of the work based on 'Completion Certificate' issued by the competent authority stating that the contractor has completed the work in all respects satisfactorily. The Security Deposit shall, however, be released only after
(e)
Page 27 of 124 expiry of the maintenance period and after passing the final bi II based on 'No Claim Certificate' from the contractor. (f) Whenever the contract is rescinded, the Security Deposit shall be forfeited and the Performance Guarantee shall be encashed. The balance work shall be got done independently without risk & cost of the failed contractor. The failed contractor shall be debarred from participating in the tender for executing the balance work. If the failed contractor is a JV or a Partnership firm, then every member/partner of such a firm shall be debarred from participating in the tender for the balance work in his/her individual capacity or as a partner of any other JV/partnership firm. (g) The engineer shall not make a claim under the Performance Guarantee except for amounts to which the President of India is entitled under the contract(not withstanding and/or without prejudice to any other provisions in the contract agreement) in the event of : (i) Failure by the contractor to extend the validity of the Performance Guarantee as described herein above, in which event the Engineer may claim the full amount of the Performance Guarantee. (ii) Failure by the contractor to pay President of India any amount due, either as agreed by the contractor or determined under any of the clause/Conditions of the Agreement, within 30 days of the service of notice to this effect by Engineer. (iii) The Contract being determined or rescinded under provision of the GCC, the Performance Guarantee shall be forfeited in full and shall be absolutely at the disposal of the President of India.
Pro-forma for Bank Guarantee Bond is available at Annexure XI of ChapterIII. This pro-forma may be changed/amended at the discretion of the Railway. 29. REFUND OF SECURITY DEPOSIT Security Deposit shall be released after the physical completion of the work and the expiry of the maintenance period and after passing of the final bill based on No claim certificate. The Competent Authority to release security deposit shall normally be the authority who is competent to sign the contract if this Competent Authority is of the rank lower than JA Grade, then a JA Grade Officer (concerned with the work) should issue the certificate. The certificate, inter-alia, should mention that the work has been completed in all respects and that all the contractual obligations have been fulfilled by the contractors and that there is no due from the contractor to Railways against the contract concerned. Before releasing the SD, an unconditional and unequivocal no claim certificate from the contractor concerned should be obtained. For works which have been physically completed but maintenance period is not over: Security Deposit recovered from the running bills of the contractors can be returned to the contractor to him if he so desirers, in lieu of FDR/Irrecoverable bank Guarantee for equivalent amount to be submitted by him after the physical completion of the work as certified by the Competent Authority. This bank guarantee shall be initially valid up to the stipulated maintenance period plus 60 (Sixty) days beyond that. In case, maintenance period gets extended, the contractor shall get the validity of guarantee bond extended to cover such extended maintenance period plus 60 (Sixty) days. The Competent Authority shall normally be the authority who is competent to sign the contract if this Competent Authority is of the rank lower than JA Grade, then a JA Grade Officer (concerned with the work) should issue the certificate. No interest will be payable on the Security Deposit.
30.
Page 28 of 124 REFUND OF Performance Guarantee (P.G) The Performance Guarantee (P.G) shall be released after satisfactory completion of work based on the Completion Certificate as issued by the Competent Authority. The Competent Authority shall normally be the authority who is competent to sign the contract, if this Competent Authority is of the rank lower than JA Grade, and then a JA Grade Officer (concerned with the work) should issue the certificate. The certificate, inter-alia, should mention that the work has been completed in all respect and that all the contractual obligations have been fulfilled by the contractors and that there is no due from the contractor to Railways against the contract concerned. Before releasing the Performance Guarantee (P.G), an unconditional and unequivocal no claim certificate from the contractor concerned shall be obtained. No interest will be payable on the Performance Guarantee (P.G).
SCOPE OF WORK & PAYMENTS THEREOF: The Railway reserves the right to get the work executed in the best and most economical manner, and may add or may not operate any item(s) of work(s) as the Railway may consider fit. The Contractor(s) is expected to use the latest technology and machinery and achieve a most efficient and best quality finished construction. The Railway reserves the right to increase or decrease the scope of work and/or not to operate any one or more of the item(s) or work(s) of any one or more of the various Schedules. It is the responsibility of the Contractor to ascertain from the Engineer-in charge, the items to be operated with their actual quantities before making any arrangements(s) for taking up work under the item(s). No claim, whatsoever, from the Contractor will be entertained for non-operation of any of the item(s) or for variation in quantity of any of the item(s). The payment shall be made on the basis of actual quantities executed under various item(s) and the accepted rates thereof, and not on the quantities mentioned in the various schedules. Individual N.S. items in contract shall be operated with variation of plus or minus 25% (Twenty five percent) and payment would be made as per the agreemental rate. Terms & Conditions of payment through ECS/EFT Tenderer to give consent in a mandate form for receipt of payment through ECS/EFT. Tenderer to provide the details of Bank A/c in line with RBI guidelines for the same. These details will include Bank Name, Branch Name & Address, Account type, Bank A/c No. and Bank & Branch Code as appearing on MICR cheque issued by bank. Tenderer to attach certificate from their bank certifying the correctness of all above mentioned information (as mentioned in Para (ii) above) In case of non-payment through ECS/EFT or where ECS/EFT facility is not available, payment will be released through cheque. VARIATION PAYMENT BEYOND +25% OVER AGREEMENTAL QUANTITY & ITS
31. (i) (ii) (iii)
(iv)
(v) i) ii)
iii) iv) 32. (v) ii.
Railway reserves the right to vary the quantities of works in excess of or less than the agreemental quantity. Individual NS items in contracts shall be operated with variation of plus or minus % and payment would be made as per the agreement rate. For this, no finance concurrence would be required.
iii.
(a)
Page 29 of 124 In case an increase in quantity of an individual item by more than 25% of the agreement quantity is considered unavoidable, the same shall be got executed by floating a fresh tender. If floating a fresh tender for operating that item is considered not practicable, quantity of that item may be operated in excess of 125% of the agreement quantity subject to the following conditions: Operation of an item by more than 125% of the agreement quantity needs the approval of an officer of the rank not less than S.A. Grade; (i) Quantities operated in excess of 125% but upto 140% of the agreement quantity of the concerned item, shall be paid at 98% of the rate awarded for that item in that particular tender; (ii) Quantities operated in excess of 140% but upto 150% of the agreement quantity of the concerned item shall be paid at 96% of the rate awarded for that item in that particular tender; (iii) Variation in quantities of individual items beyond 150% of will be prohibited and would be permitted only in exceptional unavoidable circumstances with the concurrence of associate finance and shall be paid at 96% of the rate awarded for that item in that particular tender.
(b) The variation in quantities as per the above formula will apply only to the Individual items of the contract and not on the overall contract value. (c) Execution of quantities beyond 150% of the overall agreemental value should not be permitted and, if found necessary, should be only through fresh tenders or by negotiating with existing contractor, with prior personal concurrence of FA&CAO/FA&CAO(C)and approval of General Manager. (iv) In cases where decrease is involved during execution of contract: (a) The contract signing authority can decrease the items upto 25% of individual item without finance concurrence. (b) For decrease beyond 25% for individual items or 25% of contract agreement value, the approval of an officer not less than rank of S.A. Grade may be taken, after obtaining 'No Claim Certificate' from the contractor and with finance concurrence, giving detailed reasons for each such decrease in the quantities. (c) It should be certified that the work proposed to be reduced will not be required in the same work. v. The limit for varying quantities for minor value items shall be 100% (as against 25% prescribed for other items). A minor value item for this purpose is defined ass an item whose original agreement value is less than 1% of the total original agreement value. vi. No such quantity variation limit shall apply for foundation items. vii. As far as SOR items are concerned, the limit of 25% would apply to the value of SOR schedule as a whole and not on individual SOR items. However, in case of NS items, the limit of 25% would apply on the individual items irrespective of the manner of quoting the rate (single percentage rate or individual item rate). viii. For the tenders accepted at Zonal Railways level, variations in the quantities will be approved by the authority in whose powers revised value of the agreement lies. ix. For tenders accepted by General Manager, variations upto 125% of the original agreement value may be accepted by General Manager. x. For tenders accepted by Board Members and Railway Ministers, variations upto 110% of the original agreement value maybe accepted by General Manager. xi. The aspect of vitiation of tender with respect to variation in quantities should be checked and avoided. In case of vitiation of the tender (both for increase as well as decrease of value of contract agreement), sanction of the competent authority as per single tender should be obtained. 33. RECOVERY OF INCOME TAX
Page 30 of 124 Income Tax @ 2% (Two percent) of the gross amount of the each bill will be recovered from all the bills of the contractor as per Income Tax Act, as introduced through the Finance Act-1972. A surcharge @15 %( fifteen- percent) on the amount of Income Tax so deducted will also be recovered from the contractors bills. This is further subject for increase or decrease as per extant instructions in this regard.
34. RECOVERY OF SALES TAX: For the work executed in the State of Bihar, Jharkhand, and MP and UP, Sales Tax on Works Contract will be recovered at the source from the Gross amount of each bill of the contractor as applicable. The present rate is 4% of gross work value. This is further subject to increase or decrease as per extant instructions/Act/ Rules in this regard. PRICE VARIATION CLAUSE (Applicable) GENERAL The rates quoted by the tenderer and accepted by Railway Administration shall hold good till the completion of the work and no additional individual claim will be admissible on account of fluctuation in market rates, increase in taxes/any other levies/- tolls etc. except that payment/recovery for overall market situation shall be made as per price variation clause given in Para below. No cognizance will be given for any sort of fluctuations in taxes and other market conditions etc. for any individual item for the purpose of making adjustment in payments. The contract shall, however, be governed by the general price variation clause. The price variation should be based on the average price index of the 3 months of the quarter instead of the price index of the first month of the quarter under consideration. APPLICABILITY OF PRICE VARIATION CLAUSE The applicability of this Clause to this tender is subject to the relevant provision of Chapter-I of this document and fulfilling following conditionsThis Price Variation Clause shall be applicable only to contracts more than Rs. 0.5 Crore in value, the value being the value of actual work to be executed by the contractor, i.e. excluding the cost of materials supplied free of cost by the Railway, on the basis of tendered quantities. If this value is less than Rs. 0.5 Crore the Price Variation Clause shall not be applicable, even though this clause may be printed in the tender documents and where the value of work executed by contractor becomes more than 0.5 Crore (as a result of subsequent variation, N.S. item etc.), the original value having been less than Rs. 0.5 Crore, this clause will not be applicable. The Price Variation clause will be applicable to all extensions of time granted to the date of completion except extension granted under clause 17B of GCC 2008. Price variation is not applicable for any new NS item that may be included subsequent to finalization of contract. If in any case, the accepted offer includes some specific payment to be made to consultants or some materials supplied by Railway at fixed rate, such payments should be excluded from the gross value of the work for purpose of payment/recovery of variation. METHOD OF CALCULATION OF ADJUSTMENT. The amount of adjustment i.e. increase/decrease in total payable amount shall be calculated by the following formula for each component of input, i.e. labour, material, fuel, explosive,
35. (A) (i)
(ii)
(iii)
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Page 31 of 124 detonator. There shall be a fixed component also on which no adjustment shall be made.
(I) METHOD OF CALCULATION: For Items Other than Supply of Steel & Cement (a) R X (l- l0) P
=
I
0
X
100 Q
(b) (c)
R X (W- W0)
M U
=
W0 R X (F- F0)
X
100 Z
=
0
X
100 S R X (E- E0)
(d)
=
E
0
X
100 T R X (D- D0)
(e)
=
D
0
X
100
WhereL = M = U = X = N = R =
I I
= = = = = =
Wo W Fo F
Amount of price variation in labour Amount of price variation in materials. Amount of price variation in fuel. Amount of price variation in explosives. Amount of price variation in detonators. Gross value of the work done by the contractor as per on- account Bills excluding costs of materials supplied by Railways free or at a fixed price or supply of steel and cement by contractor, which is paid under Schedule C. This will also exclude specific, payment, if any, to be made to the consultants engaged by the contractors (Such payment will be indicated in the contractors offer). Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers All India published in RBI Bulletin for the base period. Average Consumer Price Index number for industrial workers All India- Published in RBI Bulletin for the 3 months of the quarter under consideration. Index Number of Wholesale Prices By groups and subgroups- All commodities as published in the R.B.I. Bulletin for the base period. Average Index Number of Wholesale Prices - By groups and Subgroups - All commodities as published in the R.B.I. Bulletin for the 3 months of the quarter under consideration. Index Number of Wholesale Prices By groups and sub-groups for Fuel, Power, light and lubricants as published in the R.B.I. bulletin for the base period. Average Index Number of Wholesale Prices - By groups and subgroups for fuel, power, light, and lubricants as published in the R.B.I. Bulletin for the 3 months of the quarter under consideration.
E o E Do D = = =
P Q Z S T (II)
= = = = =
Page 32 of 124 Cost of Explosives as fixed by DGS&D in the relevant rate contract of the firm from whom purchase of explosives are made by the contractor for the base period. Average cost of Explosive as fixed by DGS&D in the relevant rate contract of the firm from whom purchase of explosives are made by the contractor for the 3 months of the quarter under consideration. Cost of detonators as fixed by DGS&D in the relevant rate contract of the firm from whom purchase of detonators are made by the contractor for the base period. Average cost of detonators as fixed by DGS&D in the relevant rate contract of the farm from whom purchase of detonators are made by the contractor for the 3 (three)months of the quarter under consideration. % of Labour component. % of Material component. % of Fuel component. % of Explosive component. % of Detonators component.
(a)
For Supply of Cement This special PV clause will be applicable only for supply of Cement:Price of Cement is to be linked with the Wholesale Price Index of the respective sub group as per RBI Index Numbers. Henceforth, the formula for calculating the amount of variation on account of variation in prices of Cement would be as indicated below:Mc =R1 x (Wc-Wco)/ Wco Mc = Amount of price variation in material (Cement). R1 = Value of Cement supplied by Contractor under Schedule C as per on account bill in quarter under consideration. Wco = Index No. of Wholesale Price of subgroup (of Cement) as published in RBI Bulletin for the base period. Wc = Index No. of Wholesale Price of subgroup (of Cement) as published in RBI Bulletin for the 1st month of the quarter under consideration.
(III) INDEX NUMBER : The index number of the base month shall be that published by R.B.I. for the month of opening of the tender and the quarters will commences from the month following the month of opening of the tender. However, in case the tender is finalized after the negotiation, base month for the price variation clause is the month in which negotiations are held. Quarterly periods shall also be counted commencing from the month following the month in which the last negotiation was held leading to the award of contract. (IV) The percentages P, Q, Z, S, T of various components i.e. labour, materials etc for different type of work shall be as follows: Earth work Items Labour components 50% Fuel components 20% Other material components 15% Fixed components 15% Ballast and Quarry products Items Labour components 55% Fuel components 15% Other material components 15% Fixed components 15%
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Tunneling Items Labour components Fuel components Explosive component Detonator component Other material components Fixed components Other works Items Labour components (P) Material components(Q) Fuel components (Z) Fixed components (V) 45% 15% 15% 5% 5% 15% 30% 25% 15% 30%
The amount on which the adjustment is to be calculated, shall be the amount payable to the contractor for the item or items of various types of works given in the reference quarter, Refer (E) below for procedure of calculation of adjustment. The calculations for adjustments in the amount payable to the contractor shall be made on the value of the work done in each quarter by the contractor. Quarterly periods shall be counted commencing from the month following the month in which tender have been opened. However, in case the tender is finalized after the negotiation, quarterly periods shall be counted commencing from the month following the month in which the last negotiation was held leading to the award of contract. Refer (E) below also. The calculations for adjustments should be based on the average price Index of the three months of the quarter. The demand for escalation of the cost may be allowed on the basis of provisional indices made available by the Reserve Bank of India. Any adjustment need to be done based on the finally published indices shall be made as and when they become available. Supply of steel Ms= Q (Bs-Bso) where Ms= Amount of price variation in steel payable/recoverable Q = Weight of steel in tones supplied by the contractor as per the on account bill for the month under consideration Bs = SAILs (Steel Authority of India Limited) ex-works price plus Excise Duty thereof (in rupees per ton) for the relevant category of steel supplied by the contractor as prevailing on the first day of the month in which the steel was purchased by the contractor (or) as prevailing on the first day of the month in which steel was brought to the site by the contractor whichever is lower. Bso =SAILs ex-works price plus Excise Duty thereof (in rupees per ton) for the relevant category of steel supplied by the contractor as prevailing on the first day of the month in which the tender was opened. Note:(i) Relevant categories of steel for the purpose of operating the above price variation formula based on SAILs ex-works price plus Excise Duty thereof are as under:-
(VI)
(VII) (VIII)
(IX)
(ii) (E) (i)
(ii) (F) i.
ii.
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Page 34 of 124 Category of steel supplied in the Category of steel produced by SAIL railway work whose ex-works price plus Excise Duty thereof would be adopted to determine price variation. 1. Reinforcement bars and other TMT 8 mm IS 1786 Fe 415 rounds. 2. All types and sizes of angles. Angle 65 x 65 x 6 mm IS 2062 E250A SK 3. All types and sizes of plates. PM Plates above 10-20 mm IS 2062 E250A SK 4. All types and sizes of channels and Channels 200 x 75 mm IS 2062 joists. E250A SK 5. Any other section of steel not Average of price for the 3 categories covered in the above categories and covered under Sl. no. 1, 2, 3 above. excluding HTS. The prevailing ex-works price of steel per ton as on 1st of every month for the above categories of steel as advised by SAIL to Railway Board. MAKING ADJUSTMENTS FOR PRICE VARIATION The adjustment for variation in prices i.e. extra payment in case of increase and recovery in case of decrease, as required, shall be made once in every quarter in the on accounts payments. If more than one on account payment is made to the contractor in a quarter, the adjustment, if required, shall be made as and when they become available. It shall be contractors responsibility to submit the value of various price Indices for appropriate points of time along with proof / authenticity thereof, to enable the Railway to calculate the price variations. METHOD OF OPERATION OF THIS CLAUSE Since the adjustment of payments are based on the amount of work done by contractor in each quarter, measurements of actual work done must be taken and recorded in the measurements books and signed by the contractor at the end of each quarter, if not frequently. Since the various Indices are published by RBI / Ministry of Labour a few months later than the months to which they pertain, the normal on account bills based on quarterly measurements will be prepared as per current procedure on the adopted rates without considering the Price Variation clause. The adjustments in Price variations shall be done subsequently. through separate series of on account bills, called Escalation on account bill no 1,2 etc. the adjustment bills and the normal on account bills will be kept independent of each other for facility of operations.
Sl No. EXTENSION OF COMPLETION DATE: Extension of time for the completion of the work shall be governed by Clause 17 of the GCC 2008, and the contractor shall be responsible for requesting such extension in terms there of. While applying for such extension, a Bar Chart showing the work already done and the program for the work to be done shall be prepared and shown in juxtaposition with the bar chart submitted under clause 4 of chapter-IV of tender document, giving reasons for slippage activity-wise. The Railway may agree to such extension of time of completion, if they consider justified. The competent authority while granting extension to the currency of the contract under clause 17(B) of GCC 2008 may also consider levy of token penalty as deemed fit based on the merit of case.
36. (i)
.(ii)
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Page 35 of 124 Payment of advances to contractors: (Applicable) General: The applicability of this clause to this tender is subject to high value of tenders of value Rs. 10.00(Ten) crore and above each as mentioned in Chapter I of these documents. The Railway may consider sanction of the advances to the contractors vide sub-clause (b) & (c) only for works of high value of Rs. 10.00(Ten) crore and above each provided further that the contractor has made a request with adequate justification for such advance(s) along with his tender. Request for grant of such advance shall not be entertained, if the same is made at any subsequent point of time.
Mobilization Advance: This shall be limited to 10% of the contract value and shall be payable in 2 Stages as indicated below: Stage-I: - 5% of contract on signing of the contract agreement. State-II: - 5% on Mobilization of site-establishment, setting up offices, bringing in equipment and actual commencement of work. The advance is payable against irrevocable Bank Guarantee covering principal plus interest from a Nationalized Bank in India or State Bank of India in a form acceptable to the railway. The two stages of advances shall be payable on the clear understanding and condition that the contractor shall progress with the work in accordance with bar charts submitted by him for the purpose and accepted by the Railway. Advance against Machinery and equipment: The amount of this advance shall be limited to 10% of the contract value and shall be payable against new machinery and equipment, essentially required for the execution of the work involving substantial outlay and after it is brought to and commissioned at site. Further, the amount of advance shall not exceed 75% of the purchase price of such equipment and will be payable only after the machinery / equipment is hypothecated to the President of India, by a suitable bond or alternatively covered by an irrevocable Bank guarantee for the full cost of the plant and machinery and equipment from a Nationalized Bank in India or state Bank of India in a form acceptable to the Railway. Further this advance is subject to the plant and equipment being insured for the full value and for the entire period for which they are required for the work. This advance is further subject to the condition that the plant and machinery shall not be removed from the site without the written permission from the Railway. No advance shall be given against old plant and machinery. The above advances are subject to the following condition: The advance shall carry an interest of 12% (twelve percent) per annum. Advances except those against machinery and equipment, shall be payable against irrevocable bank guarantee from Nationalized bank in India or State Bank of India in acceptable to the Railways. The recovery shall commence when the value of contract executed reaches 15% (fifteen percent) of original contract value, and shall be completed when the value of work executed reaches 85% (eighty five percent) of the original contract value. The installments on each "on-account-bill" will be pro-rata basis. The grant of advance is primarily in Railways own interest.. The Contractor does not receive advances for Mobilization for the same machinery and equipment more than once or from more than one source in the contract. In the event of breach of any of the conditions mentioned above for grant of the advance(s) as above, by the contractor, for any reasons whatsoever, the railway shall be at liberty to revoke the advances, at its sole discretion. Method of recovery of interest
37(B)
(c)
(d) (i) (ii) (iii)
(iv) (v)
(vi)
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Page 36 of 124 Interest will be recovered on the advance outstanding for the period commencing from the date of payment of advance till date of particular on-account bill( Through which recovery of principal is effected) and adjusted fully against onaccount bill along with pro-rata principal recovery. In the event of any short fall the same will be carried forward to the next on-account bill and will attract interest @12% per annum. The bank guarantee for such advances should clearly cover principal plus interest.
37(B) Incentive Bonus Payment Clause (Not applicable) :For early and time bound completion of throughput enhancement works primarily those coming under the plan heads Doubling and Traffic facilities , Incentive Bonus Payment Clause will be applicable subject to following conditions :i) The incentive Bonus payable shall not be more than 1% of the initial contract value or revised contract value whichever is less for every one month of early completion ahead of the original completion period or revised completion period whichever is less. ii) The maximum incentive payable shall not be more than 6% of the original contract value or revised contract value whichever is less. iii) This incentive scheme shall not apply if extension to the original completion period is given irrespective of on whose account (Rly Account) or Contractors account). iv) Period less than a month will not be reckoned for the incentive Bonus calculation. 38. CLAIMS The contractor shall not be entitled to make any claim whatsoever against the Railway under or by virtue of or arising out of this contract, nor shall the Railway entertain or consider any such claim, if made by the contractor, after he shall have signed a No Claim certificate in favour of the Railway, in such form as shall be required by the Railway the work are finally measured up. The contractor shall be debarred from disputing the correctness of the items covered by No Claim certificate or demanding a clearance to arbitration in respect thereof under clause 43(2) of GCC 2008. The Railway shall not be liable to the contractor for any matter arising out of or in connection with the contract or the execution of the works unless the contractor shall have made a claim in writing in respect thereof before the issue of the maintenance certificate under clause 50(I) of GCC.2008. RAILWAY PASS OR CONCESSION: No Railway pass or concession facilities will be given to the Contractors or their agents and laborers for the execution of the works. Contractors materials required for execution of the work will have to be carried at the public rate of Railway freight if carried by Railway transport and no concession rate of Railway freight will be applicable. TIME OF COMPLETION OF WORK This tender is submitted subject to the condition that the tenderer(s) shall complete the works covered by this tender in all respect within the period of time stipulated in Chapter I. The time reckoned from the date of issue of letter of acceptance. SPECIFICATIONS: All the works shall be carried out in accordance with the specifications contained in these documents. Any specifications, not covered by these documents, shall be in accordance with relevant IRS Codes, IS Codes , IRC codes and MORSTH specifications read in the said order or as stipulated/approved by the Railway.
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(iii) (a) (b) (c) CONTRACTORS MATERIALS The materials to be supplied by the Contractor for the works covered by these tender documents shall conform to specifications contained in these tender documents. If called upon, the Tenderer(s) shall state the actual source of supply of material(s) to be supplied by him and shall submit test certificate & samples for prior approval. During the execution of work, all materials brought to site by the Contractor must be Offered for inspection and passed by the Engineer or his representative before being used in the work and such approval shall be recorded in a register maintained for the purpose. Sanitary fittings to be supplied shall be of Hindustan, Nycer and Parry or any other approved brand and are subject to prior submission of samples and their approval thereof. PAINTS All paints/distemper/plastic paints to be used shall only be those manufactured by One of the following firms or any other approved brand and of color and shade approved beforehand by the Engineer-at-site. M/s Jenson Nicholson M/s British / Burger paints. M/s Shalimar Paints I.C.I. Nerolac. These materials shall be brought in sealed drums and each drum shall be opened in the presence of the Engineer-at-site before use. Samples of any material(s) supplied by the Contractor may be got tested at the Contractors cost in any recognized laboratory, at the sole discretion of the Engineer-in-charge. SUPPLY OF MATERIALS It is proposed to supply cement, reinforcement steel and structural steel required for the work as under: CEMENT(PPC/PSC/OPC) The Contractor shall supply OPC under Schedule C-I of these documents and upon their use in the works shall be paid for at the accepted rates in the said Schedule C-I Full requirement for the work is proposed to be supplied by contractor under said schedule C-I. The quantity of cement for payment shall be calculated as per actual consumption in the work and no payment for any wastage shall be done. REINFORCEMENT STEEL The Contractor shall supply Reinforcement steel under Schedule C-II of these documents and upon their use in the works shall be paid for at the accepted rates in the said Schedule-C-II. Full requirement for the work is proposed to be supplied by contractor. The quantity of reinforcement steel for payment shall be calculated on the basis of actual consumption in the respective item(s) of work not allowing for any wastage, cut pieces etc.
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Page 38 of 124 STRUCTURAL STEEL The Contractor shall supply structural steel conforming to IS 2062: 2006 under Schedule C-II of this document for complete work and upon their use in the works shall be paid for at the accepted rates in the said Schedule C-II. All wastages etc is considered to be included in the rates and no wastages etc will be allowed. For items executed under E. C. Railway SOR - 2008, as contained in Schedule B, the supply of the materials by the Railway to contractor shall be under the terms and conditions specified in the preface of the book and the introductory remarks on top of each Chapter of the said book subject to the extent of modification detailed herein below:Materials supplied by the Railway from the Store/Godown(s) of JE/SE/(Con)/.. situated at shall be carried by the Contractor to the site of work by his road vehicle, or by loading in wagons, as per Railway rules as directed by Engineer-atsite. The detention of wagons, if any, shall be on Contractors account. The tendered rates shall include all loading, unloading, leading, lifting, stacking, handling, crossing of lines / tracks / obstructions etc and no separate payment will be made in this respect (this supersedes provisions of payment for lead, lift of materials as specified in the introductory remarks of various chapters of ER SOR 1996) The Railway shall not supply any water to the Contractor. Materials to be supplied by the Contractor under schedule C-I& C-II shall be delivered at the site of consumption and Railway shall make no payment towards handling, transport, storing and safe custody of the same. While transporting and storing Railway materials, the Contractor should guard against any Deterioration damage or loss due to any cause whatsoever (viz cement becoming set due to moisture, steel getting rusted etc) for which the contractor shall make necessary precautions at his own cost and risk. Cost of materials damaged by the contractor shall be recovered as detailed in clause 42 (VI) (b) below. (a) In case of supply of cement by the Railway in Jute / Polythene bags, the empty bags, if not required by the Railway, shall be retained by the Contractor for disposal, preferably to the authorized bag collecting agents.
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In case of supply of cement by the Railway in paper bags (as in the case of imported Cement) the paper bags shall be retained by the contractor for disposal in his own way and no recovery will be made from his bills towards empty paper bags. (VI) The quantities of Railway materials issued by the Railway to the Contractor shall be commensurate with the progress of works, and shall be on a written demand from the contractor. (a) All materials issued by the Railway in excess of requirement shall be returned by the Contractor in good condition free of cost at the store of JE / SE (Con) from where they were issued. In case of reinforcing steel, cut pieces to the extent of Maximum 3% (Three percent) of actual consumption shall be the property of the contractor. For cement, no wastage will be allowed. For any excess over the above quantities, deduction at the rate worked out as per Para 42(VI)(b) below would be effected. (b) If the Contractor fails to return excess material issued to him (cement, reinforcing steel, and structural steel), the cost of such excess Materials shall be recovered at last purchase rate or current market rate plus 5% (Five percent) for freight, 12.5% (Twelve and half percent) for Supervision charges and 2% (two percent) towards incidental charges on the quantity not returned. (VII) While transporting materials, whether Railways or his own, the Contractor shall be fully Responsible and answerable for any dislocation or damage caused to
Page 39 of 124 traffic on Road and for any accident which may occur on the route shall make good the same at his own risk & cost. It is deemed that the Contractor has fully indemnified the Railway against any claim made by any party for such dislocation, damage or accident and in the event of the Contractor failing to make good such loss, the Railway shall do so, at the Contractor cost, at their sole discretion.
43.0 Stage payment on supply of steel: (Not Applicable) This clause will be applicable for works contract of value more than Rs.15.00 (Fifteen) crore each. Stage payment will be applicable for steel physically brought by the contractor to the site (even before its actual use in the work), subject to the following aspects:The material shall be strictly in accordance with the contract specifications. The tender schedule shall provide for individual NS rate to be quoted by the tenderers for steel separately. The material shall be delivered at site and properly stored under covered sheds in measurable stacks The quantities of materials shall be brought to the site only in such installments that would facilitate smooth progress of work and consumed in reasonable time Proper accountal in the material register to be maintained in the prescribed format at the site for the receipt and use of the material. Ownership of such material shall be deemed to vest with the Railways for which the contractor should submit an indemnity bond in prescribed format. Indemnity Bond Performa is available at Annexure-IX of Chapter-III Before releasing the stage payment, the contractor shall insure the material at his own cost in favour of Railways against theft, damages, fire etc. Stage payment in all such cases shall not be more than 75% of the rate of steel awarded in the contact the balance payment shall be released only after the material is actually consumed in the work . The price variation claim for steel would continue to be governed as per extant PV clause and with reference to delivery at site. The quantity of steel to be brought to site, and for which stage payment will be admissible, shall be worked out by the contractor in consultation with the Engineer, for the first quarter, from date of issue of LOA + 15 days. Subsequent supply to site shall be done with approval of Engineer, on a quarterly basis, based on actual progress. HIRE OF MATERIALS/EQUIPMENTS ETC &HIRE CHARGES. Railway may provide 90R/52Kg U/S (Scrap) Rails (not exceeding 1000 running meters) and associated fitting such as fish plates fish bolts and dog spikes etc. free of any hire charge subject to availability. These will have to be returned to Railway in same condition after completion of the work. The Railway may give on hire to the Contractor any other material, plant and equipment, if available, on a specific request made by the Contractor to the Railway. But it will not entertain any claim for compensation due to the Railways failure to do so or on the railways inability to supply such material, plant and equipment be an excuse for slow progress or non-performance of the work. However, issue of such material, plant and equipment shall not be allowed as a matter of course but permitted only in those cases where the need for help for the Administration could be established having regard to nature and urgency of situation and without adversely affecting the normal requirements of the Railway. A statement of materials thus issued and hire charges recovered should invariably be furnished along with the final bill. RECOVERY OF HIRE CHARGES The hire charges to be recovered are to be calculated as under
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Page 40 of 124 Cost of materials The cost of materials shall be the book value last purchase rate approved value whichever is higher, plus 5% for freight and 2% for incidental charges thereon. The cost thus arrived at shall be increased by 12.5% for supervision charges as per extent rules. Hire charges- The hire charges per annum will be calculated on the cost of the materials arrived at as per clause 44(iii)(1) above on the following basis: Interest on the total cost should be charged at the running rate of dividend Payable by Railway in the General Revenue. Depreciation charges at 10% per annum of the cost arrived at as per Para 44 (iii)(1) above to be charged for all classes of materials. Additional depreciation charges at 10% on the total of (a) & (b) above shall be charged to meet the contingencies. The Contractor shall bear the charges for carrying the materials to the site of work and back to store including other incidental charges including loading and unloading etc to the place of work as also back to the depot from where they were issued. No cutting of holes shall be allowed in the materials thus issued which shall be returned to the railways in a completely good and serviceable condition. In case of failure of the Contractor to return any material in a good and serviceable condition, the cost thereof shall be recovered from contractor at the rate arrived at as per item 44(iii) (1) above increased by 100%. The decision of the DEN/AEN-incharge of the work will be final in determining condition of the materials and same shall be binding on the Contractor. Running expenses including fuel, lubricants and stores and labour, if supplied by the railway, will also be paid for by the contractor at the cost to be determined by the Railway. Staff and stores for running the plant may be supplied by the Contractor with approval of Engineer-in-charge. The staff must be properly skilled to operate the plant concerned.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR DAMAGE TO CONTRACTORS MATERIALS: The railway Administration will not be responsible for any loss or damage to contractors materials, equipments, tools and plants due to fire, flood or any other cause(s) whatsoever. The materials issued by the Railway to the contractor for use in the works shall be treated as contractors materials for this purpose, and the contractor(s) shall make good these materials in the event of any loss/ damage thereto. Works finished but not taken over by the railway shall be treated as contractors materials for this purpose, and the contractor shall be responsible for making good any loss or damage thereto. RESCINDING OF CONTRACT As per GCC-2008 with up to date correction slips. ARBITRATION CLAUSE All disputes and differences of any kind whatsoever arising out of or in connection with the contract, whether during the progress of work or after its completion and whether before or after the determination of the contract shall be referred by the contractor to the Railway and the same will be dealt under clause 63 to 64 (7) of GCC 2008. Before demanding arbitration contractor shall submit his final claim within 30 days of determination of contract for which Railway shall reply within 120 days after receipt of such final claims stating whether all/any of such claims fall under excepted matters under clause 63 of G.C.C. or not. Arbitration can be demanded only for claims not falling under excepted matters in which case decision of Railways is final and binding on the contractor.
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48. 49. 49.1 Vehicles & Equipments of contractors can be drafted by Railway Administration in case of accidents/natural calamities involving human lives. ROYALTY: The minerals being used by the contractor should be purchased from valid authorized lease / permit holders / authorized dealers. It will be insured by Engineer-at-site.In case of Mooram & earth these permits can be obtained from District Mining officer after entering into an agreement with land holder from where mineral is to be extracted. The Railway shall do the followings to prevent evasion of royalty and illegal mining. Bill preferred by works contractor in which minor minerals has been used, must be accompanied with an affidavit form M with particulars in form N of the Rules along with a photocopy of said affidavit and particulars. Bill should not be entertained unless accompanied with aforesaid documents. The photocopy of the affidavit and the particulars received with the bill should be sent to District Mining Officer / Assistant Mining Officer within whose jurisdiction the mineral was allegedly purchased, for verification. If the said affidavit or information is found wrong, Mining Officer may take necessary / appropriate action against the contractor as per rules. Any increase in royalty after Tender Opening / Negotiation date shall be payable by the Railway. Similarly any decrease in Royalty shall be deducted from the contractors bills by the Railway. It should be specifically noted that some of the detailed drawings may not have been finalized by the Railway and will, therefore, be supplied to the contractor as and when they are finalized on demand. No compensation whatsoever on this account shall be payable by the Railway Administration. No claim whatsoever will be entertained by the Railway on account of any delay or hold up of the works(s) arising out of delay in approval of drawings, changes, modification, alteration, additions, omission and site lay out plan or detailed drawings and design and or late supply of such materials as are required to be arranged by the Railway or due to any other factor on Railway account. No claim for idle labour and or idle machinery etc. on any account will be entertained. Similarly no claims shall be entertained for business loss or any such loss. For some stretch land may not be available or acquired by railway. The land will be made available to contractor on proportionate basis depending upon the progress of contractor on the stretch, wherever land has been made available for the work. The tenderer for carrying out any construction work in Bihar must get themselves registered from the registering officer under Section 7 of the Building and other Construction Workers Act, 1996 and rules made thereto by the Bihar Govt and submit certificate of registration issued from the registering officer of the Bihar Govt (Labor Dept.). For enactment of this Act, the tenderer shall be required to pay cess @ 1% of cost of construction work to be deducted from each bill. Cost of material shall be outside the purview of cess, when supplied under a separate schedule item. Witness: 1. 2. Signature of Tenderer(s) Date: ..............................
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Annexure-I Chapter III DETAILS OF WORK OF SIMILAR NATURE OF PRESCRIBED VALUE OR MORE WHICH HAS BEEN COMPLETED IN LAST THREE YEARS (i.e., current year and last three financial years) Sl. Name of Work No. Authority under whom the work has been executed 3 Agreement/ acceptance letter reference with date of issue 4 Value of work as per agreement / acceptance 5 Date of actual Value of the Supporting completion of work Document work/extended completed date of completion 6 7
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Annexure-II Chapter III DETAILS OF CONTRACTUAL PAYMENTS RECEIVED (As Desired in Eligibility Criteria No.2) (i.e. current year and last three financial years) Sl. No. 1 Name of employer/CA issuing certificate/document Year for Issue which Amount for Supporting which issued Document
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Annexure-III Chapter III DECLARATION REGARDING ASSOCIATION OF RLY. OFFICER(S)/RETIRED RLY. OFFICER(S) WITH TENDERER(S) Sl.No. Name Status with If working in Rly on the Date of Status at the tenderer date of tendering, retirement retirement designation & place of posting 3 4 5 6 Particulars of permission taken for associating with the tenderer 7
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Annexure IV Chapter III LIST OF COURT CASES DURING LAST 5 YEARS. Sl.No. Name of work Value work of Name Client Dept. of Name of Date of Relief the Court institution sought of case. from court. Brief reason Final of dispute Present position the case / of
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Annexure V Chapter III LIST OF ARBITRATION CASES DURING LAST 5 YEARS. Sl. No. 1 Name of work Value of work Name of Dept. Client Amount and Claim date of claim Dept. preferred any. of Brief reasons Final If of disputes Present position the case / of
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DETAIL OF EQUIPMENTS Sl.No. Description of Numbers equipments. available 2 3 Detail of Date of Material purchase manufacture 4 5 6 How driven (i.e. Condition Where the Petrol/ Diesel/ of the equipment Electric.) equipment can be inspected 7 8 9
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DETAILS OF TECHNICAL PERSONNEL Sl.No Name 1 1 2 Age Technical Qualification(s ) 3 4 Position with the Commencement of Total tenderer present experience. employment 5 6 7 Emoluments. 8
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Annexure VI(A) Chapter III
DETAIL OF EQUIPMENTS TO BE USED IN PROPOSED WORK. Sl.No. Description of Numbers equipments. available 1 1 2 3 Detail of Date of Material purchase manufacture 4 5 6
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Annexure-VII(A) Chapter III DETAILS OF TECHNICAL PERSONNEL TO BE DEPLOYED IN PROPOSED WORK. Sl.No Name 1 1 2 Age Technical Qualification(s ) 3 4 Position with the Commencement of Total tenderer present experience. employment 5 6 7 Emoluments. 8
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Annexure-VIII Chapter III List of deviations proposed by the tenderer from the tender conditions in terms of Para 11 of Chapter III S.N. Details of special condition/ stipulation involving deviation from tender conditions Reason/importance of special condition/ stipulation Possibility of Cost of withdrawal of withdrawal of special condition condition/stipulation (Yes/No)
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PROFORMA OF IDEMNITY BOND Indemnity for Safe Custody of Reinforcement steel/Structural Steel as per Special Conditions of Contract Agreement No.: dated: for the work We (Name of Contractor) .hereby undertake that we shall hold at our Workshop at --------------------- for and behalf of the President of India and in trust for him the stores/articles(mentioned in annexure, details to be given for quantity for each section and grade) which may be and/or which has been made over to us, in connection with ------------ against the contract agreement No.. Dated.. 2. We shall be and remain absolutely responsible for the safe custody and protection of the said stores and articles against all risks, whatsoever, till those and assembled in the bridge to be fabricated against the above mentioned contract and duly delivered to the President of India or to his representative as he may direct and as such do hereby indemnify the president of India against any loss and/or damage to the said stores and articles while in our possession/custody. The said stores and articles shall however be at all times, open to the inspection by officers who may be authored on that behalf by ministry of Railways or its nominee. Should however, at any time any loss or damage to as aforesaid, occurs or a refund become otherwise due to the President of India, he or his representative shall be entitled to recover from us compensation for, and in respect of such loss or damage, if any, or the amount to be so refunded without prejudice to any other remedies which may be otherwise available to the said president of India by way of deduction from any sum due to/or any sum which at any time hereafter may become due to us under this or any other contract. In the event of any loss or damage as aforesaid, the assessment of such loss or damage and the assessment of the compensation therefore would be made by the President of India or his authorized nominee and the said assessment would be final and binding upon us. For. ____________________________________________________________________________ DECLARATION FORM For receiving materials from the Railways by the Firm. I/We hereby solemnly declare that the ..(Material) obtained is required for the purpose of Manufacturing (finished product) against Contract Agreement No. dated.The ..(material) will not be utilized for any other purposes or other wise disposed of without the prior approval of the president of India/Railways or his nominee Note:- This Performa is only for guidance and may be changed/amended at any stage at the discretion of Engineer. This is to be submitted on stamp paper of appropriate value at the Contractors cost. Annexure-X
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FORM OF MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING FOR JOINT VENTURE AGREEMENT 1. This Memorandum of understanding is entered this ______________ day of ________ between ________________ (Name of Co.) ___________ a company registered under the Companies Act 1956 having its registered office at represented through its Director/Authorized Representative _____________________ (hereinafter referred to as _____________________ which expression shall unless repugnant to the context thereof includes its successors) of the FIRST PART OR M/s _________________________________ a partnership firm registered under the Indian Partnership Act 1932, having its registered office ___________________________ ________________________ represented through its Partner Shri _______________ / Authorized Representative _________________ (hereinafter referred to as _____________________________ which expression shall unless repugnant to the thereof includes its successors) of the FIRST PART. AND M/s. ______________ (Name of Co.) ________________ a company registered under the Companies Act 1956 having its registered office _____________ represented through its Director or Authorized Representative ___________ (hereinafter referred to as ____________________ which expression shall unless repugnant to the context thereof includes its successors) of the SECOND PART. OR M/s. ___________________________________ a partnership firm registered under the Indian Partnership Act 19, having its registered office ________________________ , _____________________________ , ______________________ (hereinafter referred to as ___________________ which expression shall unless repugnant to the context thereof includes its successors) of the SECOND PART. AND This Memorandum of understanding executed this ____________ day of ___________ between _________ Name of Co. ______________ a company registered under the Companies Act 1956 having its registered office at represented through its Director/Authorized Representative _____________________ (hereinafter referred to as _____________________ which expression shall unless repugnant to the context thereof includes its successors) of the THIRD PART. OR M/s. ___________________________________ a partnership firm registered under the Indian Partnership Act 19, having its registered office ________________________ , _____________________________ , ______________________ through its Partner or Authorized Representative _____________________ (hereinafter referred to as _____________________ which expression shall unless repugnant to the context thereof includes its successors) of the THIRD PART. Whereas, East Central Railway, hereinafter referred to as Owner/Customer has invited Tender Nos. ___________________ hereinafter referred to as the ECR Tender for the work of __________________________________________ hereinafter referred to as the said work. Whereas, the party of the first part i.e. M/s. _____________________________ details to be supplied of the expertise in their field.
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Whereas, the party of the third part, M/s _________________________ details to be supplied of the expertise in their field. AND whereas parties to this MOU, have agreed to co-operate with each other to associate jointly and to form a Joint Venture Firm to participate in the ECR Tender of Indian Railways. Now, therefore, in consideration of the premises and mutual promises and of the undertaking contained herein, it is hereby agreed as follows: 1. The purpose of MOU M/s. ________________ , ________________ and _______________________ agree to cooperate with each other for the purpose of joint participation in the ECR Tender and in the event, the contract is awarded, to jointly execute the contract. The broad interfaces and scope of work of each party is set forth below:________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ The name of the Joint Venture firm shall be __________________________________ The parties, hereto, represent that: They are in possession of all approvals and valid authorization for the purpose of execution of this MOU. They have not entered into any agreement/MOU of equal or similar nature with any third party for the ECR tender. That each of the parties of the JV, agrees and undertake to place at the disposal of the JV, benefits of its individual experience, technical knowledge and skill and shall in all respects bear its share of the responsibility, including the provision of information advice and other assistance required in connection with the works. The share and the participation of the partners in the JV shall broadly be follows: M/s _______________________________________ % M/s _______________________________________ % M/s _______________________________________ % Lead Member: That one of the member of the JV firm shall be the lead member of the JV firm who shall have a majority (at least 51%) share of interest in the JV firm. The other members shall have a share of not less than 20% each in case of JV firms. In case of JV firm with foreign member(s), the lead member has to be an Indian firm with a minimum share of 51%. And all rights, interest, liabilities, obligations, work experience and risks (not profits or net losses) arising out of the contract shall be shared or borne by the Parties in proportionate to these shares. Each of the parties shall bound by guarantees, sureties required for the work as well as its proportionate share in working capital and other financial requirements. 4. a) The parties to this MOU undertake: That after submission of the tender, the MOU shall not be modified/altered/terminated during the validity of the tender except when modification becomes inevitable due to succession laws etc., but in no case the minimum eligibility criteria would be vitiated. The parties to this MOU further agree that the Lead Member will continue to be the Lead Member of J.V. Firm.
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Page 55 of 124 That after the contract is awarded the constitution of the J.V. Firm shall not be altered during the currency of contract except when modification becomes inevitable due to Succession Law etc., but in no case the minimum eligibility criteria would be vitiated. JOINT & SEVERAL LIABILITY In respect of the ECR tender, all terms shall be complied by each party on back-toback basis as per specifications of the ECR Tender or any other mutually agreed terms with the Owner/Customer. The Parties hereto shall, if awarded the contract for the project for which the Joint Venture is formed, be jointly and severally liable to the Indian Railways for execution of the project in accordance with the contract. The Parties hereto also undertake to be liable jointly and severally for the loss, damages caused to the Indian Railways in course of execution or due to nonexecution of the contract or part thereof or arising out of the contract. Shri ____________________________________ shall be authorized partner/person on behalf of the Joint Venture to deal with tender, to sign the agreement or enter into contract in respect of the said tender, to receive payment, to witness joint measurement of work done, to sign measurement books, and similar such action in respect of ECR tender/Contract. All notices/correspondence with respect to the contracts would be sent only to this authorized member of the J.V. Firm.
Notwithstanding anything contained herein, in respect of the ECR Tender, with regard to the internal relationship, the inter se liabilities between the parties shall be in proportion to their respective scope of work and shall be subject to the provisions of this MOU. The Parties agree that with respect of the ECR Tender neither Party, nor any subsidiary company of either Party, nor any joint venture company or any other entity, in which the Party/ies, or are in any way interested, shall compete together with or through any third party, nor shall the Parties advise, consult for, engage in or other wise assist in any way any person or entity or any affiliate thereof in respect of any order or contracts related to the ECR Tender. Responsibility Each Party shall assume and accept full responsibility for its Scope of Work and the obligations imposed in the Contract and in this MOU as if it was, with regard to its Scope of Work, an independent partner contracting individually with the Customer. In the event of any defect and damage or any claim arising from the Customer under the Contract or any third party in relation to or as a consequence of any failure to meet the performance specification the Party, within whose Scope of Work the claim arises, shall be entirely responsible for the claim and shall indemnify and hold harmless the other Party from any liability, demand, claim burden cost, expense attorneys fees and costs arising from thereof.
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10. Assignability No party to the Joint Venture has right to assign or transfer the interest, right or liability in the contract without the written consent of the other party and that of the Railway. 11. Use of Machinery, Instruments, Labour Force etc. The Parties hereto undertake that whatever the machinery, instruments, Labour force (including unskilled, skilled, inspectors, Engineers etc.) they possess at the time of entering into Joint Venture Agreement or which subsequently shall come in their possession and if such machinery, instruments, labour force is required for the speedy and efficient execution of the work, the Party/Parties having the control over the said machinery, instrument, labour force etc without having any regard to their share of profit and loss agreed to between the Parties in Joint Venture Agreement shall hand over the same at the disposal of the other party who is
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12. Duration of MOU It shall be valid during entire currency of contract including the period of extension, if any and also till the maintenance period is over or till all the contractual liabilities including warranty/guarantee obligations are discharged completely.
Applicable Law This MOU and any arrangement/agreements regarding the performance shall be construed and interpreted in accordance with and governed by the Laws of India and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts at PATNA. 13. Settlement of Disputes In the even of disputes arising from this MOU, the Parties to the MOU undertakes to endeavor to settle the said disputes amongst them amicably. However, if the parties fail to resolve the disputes amongst them amicably, the said disputes arising out of or in connection with the present MOU shall be resolved through Arbitration as per the provisions enshrined under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 or/and amendments thereof. 14. All communications or notices provided for herein shall be in the English language and be delivered, mailed, or telex-faxed to the Parties addresses as indicated below: M/s. ____________________________ __________________________________ M/s. ____________________________ __________________________________ All correspondence and notices to the Joint Venture shall be addressed to the Lead Member i.e. M/s. _________________ /Shri _______________ at the address stated herein below: M/s. ____________________________ __________________________________ Such communication or notices shall be deemed to have been duly given when so delivered or, if mailed, when received at destination. 15. Each Part shall have full and sole responsibility to bear the expense of and effect the payment of any taxes, duties, special insurance, fees or assessments of any nature whatsoever (including personal income taxes level or imposed on any of its employees or personnel or any of its sub-contractors employees or personnel) The parties to this MOU declares and certifies that they have not been black listed or debarred by Railways or any other Ministry/Department of the Govt. of India/State Govt. from participation in tenders/contract in the past either in their individual capacity or the JV firm or partnership firm in which they were member/partners. In witness whereof, the Parties have caused this MOU to be executed by their respective authorized representatives on the date and year mentioned here in above. Signature:Signature:Signature: Shri ______________ of Shri ______________ of Shri ______________ of M/s. ______________ M/s. ______________ M/s. ______________ Witnesses: 1) Name: 2) Name: Address:Address:-
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FORM OF BANK GUARANTEE BOND GUARANTEE BOND 1. In consideration of the President of India (hereinafter called the Government) having awarded the work of NAME OF THE WORK -----------------------------------------------------------------------------vide letter of Acceptance No.--------------------------------------Dated------------- (hereinafter called the said Letter of Acceptance), to M/s NAME OF THE CONTRACTOR (hereinafter called the said Contractor(s)) AND WHEREAS the contractor(s) is required to furnish Performance Guarantee in the form of an irrevocable Bank Guarantee for the sum of Rs.--------------------------(Rs. Amount in words), for the satisfactory completion of the work including extended period if any, by the said contractor(s). AND WHEREAS submission of Performance Guarantee is a condition precedent to the signing of the Contract Agreement. We, --------------------------------------------------(hereinafter referred to as the Bank (Indicates the name of the Bank) at the request of ----------------------------------------------(Contractor(s)) do hereby undertake to pay to the Government an amount not exceeding Rs.------------------------------ against any loss or damage caused to or suffered or would be caused to or suffered by the Government by reason of any breach of the said Contractor(s) of the terms or conditions contained in the said Letter of Acceptance and the agreement to be signed, after furnishing of Performance Guarantee by the said Contractor(s). 2. We (indicate the name of the Bank) do hereby undertake to pay the amounts due and payable under this guarantee without any demur, merely on a demand from the Government stating that the amount claimed is due by way of loss or damage caused to or would be caused to or suffered by the Government by reason of breach by the said contractor(s) of any of the terms or conditions contained in the said Letter of Acceptance or by reason of the contractor(s) failure to perform the said Letter of Acceptance. Any such demand made on the bank shall be conclusive as regard the amount due and payable by the Bank under this guarantee. However, our liability under this guarantee shall be restricted to an amount not exceeding Rs. We undertake to pay the Government any money so demanded not with standing any dispute or disputes raised by the contractor(s)/supplier(s) in any suit or proceeding before any Court or Tribunal relating thereto our liability under this present bond being absolute and unequivocal. The payment so made by us under this bond shall be a valid discharge of our liability for payment there under and the contractor(s)/supplier(s) shall have no claim against us for making such payment. We (indicate the name of the bank) further agree that the guarantee herein contained shall remain in full force and effect during the period that would be taken for the performance of the works covered in the said Letter of Acceptance and that it shall continue to be enforceable till all the dues of the Government under or by virtue of the said Letter of Acceptance have been fully paid and its claims satisfied or discharged or till (Office/Department)
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5. We (indicate the name of the Bank) further agree with the Government that the Government shall have the fullest liberty without our consent and without affecting in any manner our obligations hereunder to vary any of the terms or conditions of the said Letter of Acceptance or to extend the time of Performance by the said contractor(s) from time to time or to postpone for any time or from time to time any of the Powers exercisable by the Government against the said contractor(s) and to forebear or enforce any of the terms and conditions relating to the said Letter of Acceptance and we shall not be relived from our liability by reason of any such variation or extension being granted to the said contractor(s) or for forbearance, act or omission on the part of the Government or any indulgence by the Government to the said contractor(s) or by any such matter or thing whatsoever which under the law relating to sureties would, but for this provision, have effect of so relieving us. This Guarantee will not be discharged due to the change in the constitution of the bank or the contractor(s)/Supplier(s). We (indicate the name of Bank) lastly undertake not to revoke this guarantee during its currency except with the previous consent of the Government in writing. Date the day of 2011 for (Indicate the name of Bank)
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East Central Railway, Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (Con)/North Mahendrughat, Patna - 800004. Tender No. 09 of 2012-13 (Open)/North SPECIAL CONDITIONS OF THE CONTRACT (GENERAL)
1. COMMUNICATIONS WITH CONTRACTORS (S): Subject to and as otherwise provided in this contract, all notices as are required to be given shall be signed by competent Officer of the Railway for and on behalf of The President of India and all other actions shall be taken by the Engineer and/or his representative. The contract shall be governed by the provisions of the GCC-2008 modified to the extent of provisions of these documents. COMMENCEMENT OF WORK: The contractor will commence the work within 15 (Fifteen) days from the date of issue of the letter of acceptance of the tender, failing which full value of the Earnest Money & PG may be forfeited and contract terminated. Arrangement of required land for construction of site office, labour huts, store sheds etc. and arrangement of required water and electricity for all purposes in connection with this work shall be at the contractors responsibility, liability and cost as per tender conditions. Any delay in making arrangements for the same shall not be taken as an excuse for delay in starting the work. DISMANTLING: When dismantling of any existing structure is involved to facilitate the Construction, the contractor shall submit the scheme for dismantling of the existing structure. Execution shall be done after approval of Railway. The dismantling of structure should be done under proper supervision and as per approved scheme of dismantling At major dismantling sites minimum level of supervision shall be Senior Section Engineer (In-charge), who should be nominated by Dy. Chief Engineer/ Con. in writing. The dismantling Plan should be scrutinized by the Drawing Office and approved by H.O.D. in case of Construction Organization. The dismantling plan should invariably show various stages of dismantling, equipments to be used for dismantling, area likely to be affected by debris, any adjacent buildings likely to be affected and action to be taken thereof. Proper barricading should be done to stop access of unauthorized personnel near the dismantling area. Wherever necessary, assistance of RPF should be taken to prevent people from coming close to dismantling area. The contractor should also display sign Boards warning people not to enter the danger zone. Proper announcement through public address system should be done at regular intervals to keep the onlookers away from the major dismantling affected Zone. The adjacent building likely to be affected by dismantling should also be informed and workers shall take all precautionary measures. In area where law and order is likely to be affected, assistance of local Police should be taken to keep people away from dismantling area. SAFETY MEASURES: The following measures should be adopted to ensure safety of the trains as well as work force. i) The contractor shall not start any work without the presence of Railway Supervisor at site.
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ii) Wherever the road vehicles and/or machinery are required to work in the close vicinity of railway line, the work shall be so carried out so that there is no infringement to the Railways schedule of dimensions. For this purpose the area where road vehicles and/or machinery are required to ply, shall be demarcated and acknowledged by the contractor. Special care shall be taken for turning/reversal of road vehicles/machinery without infringing the running track. Barricading shall be provided wherever justified and feasible as per site conditions. The look out and whistle caution orders shall be issued to the trains and speed restrictions imposed where considered necessary suitable flagmen/detonators shall be provided where necessary for protection of trains. The supervisor/workmen should be counseled about safety measures. A competency certificate to the contractors supervisor as below shall be issued by AEN, which will COMPETENCY CERTIFICATE Certified that Sri.P.Way supervisor of M/s has been examined regarding P.Way working on ...work. his knowledge has been found satisfactory and he is capable of supervising the work safely Assistant Engineer be valid only for the work for which it has been issued. v) vi) 4.1 The unloaded ballast/rails/sleepers/other P.Way materials after unloading along track should be kept clear off moving dimensions and stacked as per the specified heights and distance from the running track. Supplementary site specific instructions, wherever considered necessary, shall be issued by the Engineer-in-charge. PROGRAMME FOR COMPLETION OF WORK & EXTENSION OF TIME OF COMPLETION Immediately after receipt of the letter of acceptance, the contractor will submit a detailed programme in the form of a Bar Chart (showing various important activities) for completion of the work within the stipulated completion period, duly signed, for the approval of Engineer in-charge of the work. A separate statement indicating the schedule and time frame of materials, labour and equipment and other arrangements to be made by the contractor for the work, should also be submitted. Every extension of time of completion will be dealt under clause 17 of GCC 2008. During execution of work contractor shall also submit each month works revised programme indicating original approved programme and measures taken to make up the slippage from the original programme, if any. He shall also submit monthly progress/programme in the form of PERT chart with weekly break up of activities in first week of every month. EXTENSION OF TIME FOR COMPLETION WORK ON CONTRACTOR ACCOUNT The existing tender clause 17(B) of GCC provide for recovery of liquidated damages from the contractor delay in completion of work. The competent authority while granting extension of time for existing contract under clause 17(B) of GCC may impose token penalty instead of liquidated damage as deemed fit based on the merits of the case and no case this shall be more than % (Half percent) per week. EQUIPMENTS The contractor shall bring to the site, necessary equipments, tools and plants for carrying out the work within 15 (Fifteen) days of the letter of acceptance, and report to the Engineer-at-site.
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6. (A) PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS The contractor shall not allow any road vehicle belonging to him or his suppliers etc to ply in Railway land next to the running line. If for execution of certain works viz. earthwork for parallel Railway line and supply of ballast for new or existing rail line, gauge conversion etc. Road vehicles are necessary to be used in railway land next to the railway line, the contractor shall apply to the Engineer-in-charge for permission giving the type & number of individual vehicle, name & license particular of the drivers, location duration & timings for such work/ movement. The Engineer-inCharge or his authorized representative will personally counsel, examine and certify, the road vehicle drivers, contractors flagmen and supervisor and will give written permission giving names of road vehicles drivers, contractors flagmen and supervisors to be deployed on the work, location, period and timing of the work. This permission will be subject to the following obligatory conditions: Nominated vehicles & drivers will be utilized for work in the presence of at least one flagman & one supervisor certified for such work. The vehicles shall ply 6.0 m clear of track. Any movement/work at less than 6.0 m and up to minimum 3.5m clear of track center shall be done only in the presence of Railway employee authorized by the Engineer-in-charge No part of the road vehicle will be allowed at less than 3.5m from track center. Cost of such railway employee shall be borne by the Contractor. The Contractor shall remain fully responsible for ensuring safety & in case of any accident shall bear cost of all damages to his equipment & men and also damages to railway & its passengers. Engineer-in-charge may impose any other condition necessary for a particular work or site. Road vehicle can ply along the track after suitable cordoning of track with minimum distance of 6 m from the center of the nearest track. For plying of road vehicles during night hours, adequate measures to be communicated in writing along with a site sketch to the contractor/contractors representative and controlling Engineer/Supervisor in-charge of the work including officers and the in-charge of the section. The road vehicles will ply only between sunrise and sunset save as per clause (v) above Contractor shall provide 150mm thick white line with lime at a distance of 3.5m from center of existing track. This white line shall be in the entire length where work is going on and/or the vehicles/machinery is playing along the track. Nothing extra shall be paid for this. Barricading with the help of portable fencing shall be provided in the length where the days work is to be done in close vicinity of the track. The fencing shall consist of selfsupporting steel columns shall be of 1.2 m heights. This will be placed at a distance of 3.5 form centerline of the nearest track. Railway representative not less than a junior engineer shall issue competency certificate after checking license and their working to all drivers of nominated vehicles/machinery. Inspector at site shall ensure that the driver who does not possess competency certificate will not work at site. The area between running line and white line shall not be permitted to become slushy and adequate drainage must be ensured at all times. If vehicle/machinery/materials are to come within 3.5m of the existing track, work must be done under the presence o an inspector authorized to do safety works. A caution order shall be issued and track will be protected with the banner flags, hand signal lamps and detonators. here contractors vehicles are permitted to ply adjacent to the running lines, experienced Gang man shall be posted by the Railway as Flagman at the cost of the contractor to prevent accidents and the cost so incurred will be recovered from the contractors dues. The contractor(s) shall be responsible for the safety of his workmen and shall provide them with necessary standard wear and apparel consistent with the nature of work being executed by his workmen.
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(xiv) (xv) (xvi) The contractor(s) shall ensure the safety of his workmen by posting necessary flagman, whose job will be to caution the workmen of approaching trains, when his workmen work on or near running Railway tracks. The contractor(s) shall protect the site of work, e.g. excavated areas, by adequate fencing and/or other suitable means to prevent accidents to his own workmen, Railways men or any member of the public. Should any accident takes place, the total cost of such damage including the cost of treatment/loss and/or compensation shall be payable by the contractor. In case of Railway under any circumstance or law of the country pays such damage; the same shall be fully recovered from the Contractor(s) due. During the execution of works, unless otherwise specified the contractor shall at his own cost provide materials and execute all shorting, timbering and strutting works as is necessary for the stability and safety of all structures, excavations and works and shall ensure that no damage, injury or loss is caused or likely to be caused to any person or property. Existing roads or water courses shall not be blocked, cut through, altered, diverted or obstructed in any way by the contractor, except with the permission of the Engineer. All compensation claimed for any unauthorized closure, cutting through, alternation, diversion or obstruction to such roads or water courses by the Contractor or his agent or his staff shall be recoverable from the contractor by deduction from any sums which may become due to him in terms of the contract, or otherwise according to law. During progress of work in any street or through farm, the contractor shall make adequate provision for the passage of traffic, for securing safe access to all premises approached from such street or through fare and for any drainage, water supply or means of lighting which may be interrupted by reason of the execution of the works and shall correct and maintain at his own cost barriers lights and other safeguards as prescribed by the Engineer for the regulation of traffic, and provide watchmen necessary to prevent accidents. The work shall in such cases be executed day and night if so ordered by the Engineer and with such vigor so that the traffic way be impeded for as short a time as possible. The contractor shall be responsible to take all precautions to ensure the safety of the public property or railway property and shall post such lookout men as may in the opinion of the Engineer be required to comply with regulations pertaining to the work The contractor shall be responsible for the safety of all employees directly or through petty contractors or sub-contractor employed by him on the works and shall report serious accidents to any of them however and whenever occurring on the work to the Engineer or the Engineers Representative and shall make every arrangement to tender all possible assistance. The Contractor shall be responsible for all risk to the works and for trespass and shall make good at his own expense all loss or damage whether to the works themselves or to any other properly of the Railway or the lives, persons or property of others from whatsoever cause in connection with the works until they are taken over by the Railway and this although all reasonable and proper precautions may have been taken by the Contractor and in case the Railway shall be called upon to make good any costs, loss or damages, or to pay any compensation, including that payable under the provisions of the Workmens compensation Act or any statutory amendments thereof to any person or persons sustaining damages as aforesaid by reason of any act, or any negligence or omissions on the part of the contractor the amount of any costs or charges including costs and charges in connection with legal proceedings, which the Railway may incur in reference thereto, shall be charged to the Contractor. The Railway shall have the power and right to pay or to defend or compromise any claim of threatened legal proceedings or in anticipation of legal proceedings being instituted consequent on the action or default of the Contractor, to take such steps as may be considered necessary or desirable to ward off or mitigate the effect of such proceedings, charging to Contractor, as aforesaid, any sum or sums of money which may be paid any expenses whether of any such payment, defense or compromise, and the incurring of any such expenses shall not be call in question by the Contractor.
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(H) The area of work should be demarcated by providing barricades and signboard, which will enable the workmen posted at site and also the lorry drivers to have clear guidelines of movement of vehicles. All the work inside a tunnel, deep cuttings, on bridges, constricted areas etc. should be carried out in accordance to the provisions in Chapter VIII of IRPWM and Para 1009 of Bridge Manual 1998 and preferably under block protection. SAFETY FIRST BOOK. The successful tenderer(s) i.e. the contractor(s) shall purchase, if he does not already possess a copy of the booklet SAFETY FIRST which may be purchased from the office of the Chief Administrative Officer (Con) / East Central Railway, Mahendrughat, Patna - 4. ENGAGEMENT OF ENGINEERING GRADUATES/DIPLOMA HOLDERS In addition to the technical staff which the contractor may already be having, the contractor will be required to employ immediately on commencement of the work, fresh unemployed Civil Engineering Graduates / Diploma holders without any experience, as specified below:No of Engineering Diploma Holders to be Duration employed 1 Engineering degree Holders and Till the completion of the 2 Engineering Diploma Holders work. The Civil Engineering Degree and Diploma Holders will be taken under training by the contractor(s) on a stipend of not less than Rs. 6000/- and Rs 3000/- per month respectively for a period of six months. Those who complete the period of six months, will there after be paid as under for entire balance contract period: Civil Engineer Degree holder Not less than Rs10000/- per month. Diploma Holder Not less than Rs5000/- per month. These Degree/Diploma holders shall not be related to the contractor. In case of noncompliance of this condition, the contract may be rescinded in terms of clause-62 of GCC 2008. 9. TOOLS AND PLANTS It should be clearly understood that it is entirely the Contractors responsibility and liability to find, procure and use all machinery, tools and plants and their spare parts that are required for efficient and methodical execution of the work. Delay in procurement of such items due to their non-availability or import difficulties or any other cause whatsoever will not be taken as an excuse for not carrying out the work. METHOD STATEMENT The tenderer will submit along with the tender a method statement consisting of planning and deployment of number of various tools/plants and man power etc to complete the work within the completion period as mentioned in the tender notice. QUALITY ASSURANCES The Contractor will submit QAP (Quality Assurance Programme) conforming to ISO 9001 or similar accreditations, in details in regard to the measures, which will be taken by them for quality assurance during execution of the work. The details should include the ISO 9001 or similar accreditation measures to be adopted, testing facilities to be developed at site and consultants to be engaged in this regard if any. The contractor shall create a separate Quality Assurance Cell which shall be responsible exclusively for monitoring of quality aspects as per approved Quality assurance plans etc, specifications and contract conditions. No personnel of this cell shall, in any case, be involved in execution of works.
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(iii) (iv) (v) During the execution of work, the Firm will have to comply with all the measures directed by the Engineer to ensure quality of work. The decision of the Engineer in this regard will be final. In case a contractor executes a work, which is below the specified structural strength, the work shall be dismantled and re-executed at contractors cost at the sole discretion of the Engineer at site. In case a contractor executes a work which is structurally up to specification, but substandard in finish, the same may be approved and accepted by the Railway in case where finish is not so important, at the Railways sole discretion, provided that where such a work is accepted, the payment for such work shall be at 80% of rates accepted for such work in the Schedule of items. WORKMEN OF THE CONTRACTOR (S) It would be appreciated by the Contractor(s) that there are a number of areas of work where no amount of supervision by Railway can ensure proper quality of work. The quality can only be ensured if competent, experienced and skilled workmen are employed to carry out the job. The Contractor shall, therefore, engage workmen having adequate competence, experience and skill for doing the work at site. In case the Engineer-at-Site finds that any one or more of the workmen of the Contractor is not competent or is in-experienced or not skilled enough, he may order the contractor to remove such workmen from the site of work and to replace them by other suitable workmen. The Contractor shall be bound to remove such workmen from site and to replace them by suitable workmen without any claim and/or delay, the decision of the Engineer-at-Site shall be final and binding on the contractor. USE OF EXPLOSIVES. Arrangement, storage and use of explosive for blasting will be the responsibility of the contractor, in accordance with Law & Regulations in force at the material time, including obtaining necessary licenses. All equipments, machinery, tools, like large capacity air compressors, Pneumatic rock drills, power shovels, dumpers shall be arranged, maintained and operated by the contractor. The contractor(s) shall be responsible for taking full precautions for ensuring proper safety of life and property adjoining the areas, where explosives are used/ stored and shall pay for all the damages caused as a result of use/storage of explosives. Tenderers special attention is drawn to the conditions of contract in respect of Explosive and Blasting as enumerated in clause 35 of GCC 2008. NIGHT WORK: The contractor shall have to carry on with the work during night if considered essential to maintain the progress of the work and his quoted rates should be inclusive of any additional expenditure involved in the working at night. Such work should, however, be made by the contractor at his cost. Prior permission of Dy.CE/Con shall be obtained for night working. Permission once given by Dy. CE/Con may be withdrawn if considered necessary due to any reason. APPROACH ROAD ETC: The contractor at his own cost shall develop and maintain all the required approach roads for proper execution of various items of this contract. MAINTENANCE PERIOD: (Not applicable) Contractor has to maintain the completed works in satisfactory condition for a period of NIL from the date of completion/handing over of all the works covered under this contract. COMPLETION DRAWINGS: Contractor shall, within his quoted rates, prepare and submit detailed completion drawings of all the works executed by him, prepared in AUTOCAD, in three copies on tracing sheets, six copies on paper-sheets and three copies in CD. Drawings may be
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17. submitted in phased manner as the works get completed as directed by Engineer. However, all the drawings shall be submitted within 30 days of date of completion. CONTRACTOR TO STUDY DRAWING & SPECIFICATIONS ETC. AND HIS LIABILITY The tenderer shall be responsible for close scrutiny of the approved drawings supplied by the Railway. For any discrepancies, error or omissions in the drawings or in other particulars indicated therein, the contractor shall approach the Railway immediately for rectification of such discrepancies, errors and omissions. If any dimension/figure/ features etc. on approved drawings or plans differ from those drawings or plans issued to the tenderers at the time of calling of the tender, the dimensions as figured upon the approved drawings or plans shall be taken as correct. No claim shall be entertained on this account and decision of Railway shall be final, binding and conclusive on the contractor. LAND FOR OFFICE AND FABRICATION YARD/STORE/ASSEMBLY YARD ETC: No land belonging to or in possession of Railway shall be occupied by the contractor without the permission of Railway. The contractor shall not use or allow to be used, the site for any purpose other than that of executing the work. Whenever non railway bodies/persons are permitted to use railway premises with competent authoritys approval, conservancy charges as applicable from time to time may be levied.
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East Central Railway, Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (Con) North Mahendrughat, Patna - 800004. LETTER OF APPLICATION BY THE TENDERER FORM OF TENDERER (FIRST SHEET) Tender No. 09 of 2012-13 (Open)/North CHAPTER-V
Name of work: Rebuilding of major Br No. 21A (2x12.2) & 21B (6x12.2), 21C (5x12.2) and 36A (3x12.2) on pile foundation between Jhanjharpur-Laukaha Bazar section in connection with gauge conversion of Sakri-Nirmali & Jhanjharpur -Laukha Bazar section. To The President of India Acting through the ... .Railway
I/We .. have read the various conditions to tender attached here to and agree to abide by the said conditions. I/We also agree to keep this tender open for acceptance for a period of 120 days from the date fixed for opening the same and in default thereof, I/We will be liable for forfeiture of my/our Earnest Money. I/We offer to do the work for East Central Railway, at the rates quoted in the attached schedule and hereby bind myself/ourselves to complete the work in all respects within from the date of issue of letter of acceptance of the tender. 2. I/We also hereby agree to abide by the General Conditions of contract corrected up to latest correction slip and to carry out the work according the Special Conditions of Contract and Specifications of materials and works at laid down by Railway in the annexed Special Condition/Specifications Schedule of Rates corrected up to latest. A sum of Rs. is herewith forwarded as Earnest Money. The full value of the earnest Money shall stand forfeited without prejudice to any other right or remedies in case my/our Tender is accepted and if:I/We do not execute the contract documents within seven days after receipt of notice issued by the Railway that such documents are ready; and I/We do not commence the work within fifteen days after receipt of orders to that effect. Until a formal agreement is prepared and executed, acceptance of this tender shall constitute a binding contract between us subject to modifications, as may be mutually agreed to between us and indicated in the letter of acceptance of my/our offer for this work. Signature of Witness:(1) Signature of Tender(s) (2) Address of the Tender(s) Date..
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FORM OF TENDERER (SECOND SHEET) Instructions to tenders and conditions of tender:- The following documents form part of Tender / Contract:Tender forms First Sheet and Second Sheet Special Conditions/Specifications (enclosed) Schedule of approximate quantities (enclosed) General Conditions of Contract and Standard specifications for materials and works mentioned in First Sheet of Tender Form, copies of which can be seen in the office of Dy. Chief Engineer/Con/II, Darbhanga or obtained from the office of the Chief Engineer/Con/NW, Mahendrughat, Patna -4 on payment of Rs.. & Rs.. respectively. Schedule of Rates As mentioned in First Sheet of Tender sheet of tender form, copies of which be seen in the office of Dy. Chief Engineer/Con/II, Darbhanga or obtained from the Chief Engineer/Con/NW, Mahendrughat, Patna -4 on payment of Rs.. & Rs respectively. All general and detailed drawings pertaining to this work which will be issued by the Engineer or his representatives (from time to time) with all changes and modifications. Drawings for the work:- The Drawing for the work can be seen in the office of the Dy. Chief Engineer/Con/II, Darbhanga at any time during the office hours. The generally on the drawings are only for the guidance of Tender(s). Detailed working drawings. (if required) based generally on the drawing mentioned above, will be given by the Engineer or his representative from time to time. The Tender(s) shall quote his / their rates as a percentage above or below the schedule of Rates of the E C Railway as Schedule of Rates-2008 .applicable to Samastipur Division except where he/they are required to quote item rates and must tender for all the items shown in the schedule of approximate quantities attached. The quantities shown in the attached schedule are given as a guide and are approximate only and are subject to variation according to the needs of the Railway. The Railway does not guarantee work under each item of the schedule. Tenders containing erasures and / or alterations of tender documents are liable to be rejected. Any correction made by tender(s) in his their entries must be attested by him / them. The works are required to be completed within a period of date of issue of acceptance letter. months from the
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Page 68 of 124 and conditions thereof in a manner not acceptable to the of ... Railway. Should the tender fail to observe or comply with the foregoing stipulation, the amount deposited as Earnest Money for the due performance of the above stipulation shall be forfeited to the Railway. If the tender is accepted, the amount of Earnest Money will be retained and adjusted as security Deposit for the due and faithful fulfillment of the contract. This amount of Security Deposit shall be forfeited if the tenderer(s)/Contractor(s) fail to execute the Agreement Bond within 7 days after receipt of notice issued by Railway that such documents are ready or to commence the work within 15 days after receipt of the order to that effect. The Earnest Money of the unsuccessful tender(s) will, save as here-in-before provided be returned to the unsuccessful tender(s) within a reasonable time but the Railway shall not be responsible for any loss or depreciation that may happen to the Security for the due performance of the stipulation to keep the offer open for the period specified in the tender documents or to the Earnest Money while in their possession nor be liable to pay interest thereon.
Rights of the Railway to deal with tender:- The authority for the acceptance of the tender will rest with the Railway. It shall not be obligatory on the said authority to accept the lowest tender or any other tender and no tenderer(s) shall demand any explanation for the cause of rejection of his/their tender nor the Railway to assign reasons for declining to consider or reject any particular tender or tenders. If the tender(s) deliberately gives / give wrong information in his / their tender or creates / create circumstances for the acceptance of his / their tender, the Railway reserves the right to reject such tender at any stage. If the tenderer(s) expires after the submission of his / their tender or after the acceptance of his their tender, the Railway shall deem such tender cancelled. If a partner of a firm expires after the submission of their tender or after the acceptance of their tender, the Railway shall deem such tender as cancelled, unless the firm retains its character. Tenders Credentials:- Documents testifying tenders previously experience and financial status should be produced along with the tender or when desired by competent authority of the East Central Railway. Tender(s) who has / have not carried out any work so far on this Railway and who is /are not borne on the approved list of the Contractors of E C Railways should submit along with his / their tender credentials to establish. His capacity to carry out the works satisfactorily. His financial status supported by Bank reference and other documents. Certificates duly attested and testimonials regarding contracting experience for the type of job for which tender is invited with list of works carried out in the past. Tender must be enclosed in a sealed cover, superscripted Tender No. 09 of 2012-13 (Open)North and must be sent by registered post to the address of CAO/Con/EC Railway, Mahendrughat, Patna-4 Railway so as to reach his office not later than 12.00. Hours on the 20.06.2012 or deposited in the special box allotted for the purpose in the office of CAO/Con/EC Railway, Mahendrughat, Patna-4 & CAO/Con/NR, Kashmeregate, Delhi . This Special box will be sealed at 12.00 hours on 20.06.2012. The tender will be opened at 12.30 hours on 22.06.2012. The tender papers will not be sold after 16.00 hours on 19.06.2012.
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Page 69 of 124 Non-compliance with any of the conditions set forth therein above is liable to result in the tender being rejected.
Execution of Contract Documents: The successful Tender(s) shall be required to execute an agreement with the President of India acting through the E C. Railway for carrying out the work according to General conditions of Contract, Special conditions / specifications annexed to the tender and specification for work and materials as laid down in works hand book Part III and Sanitary Works Hand Book of E C Railway as amended/corrected up to correction slip mentioned intender form (First Sheet). Partnership deeds, Power of Attorney Etc:- The tenderer shall clearly specify whether the tender is submitted on his own or on behalf of a partnership concern. If the tender is submitted on behalf of a partnership concern, he should submit the certified copy of partnership deed along with the tender and authorization to sign the tender documents on behalf of partnership firm. If these documents are not enclosed along with tender documents, the tender will be treated as having been submitted by individual signing the tender documents. The Railway will not be bound by any power of attorney granted by the tenderer or by changes in the composition of the firm made subsequent to the execution of the contract. It may, however recognize such power of attorney and changes after obtaining proper legal advice, the cost of which will be chargeable to the contractor. The tenderer whether sole proprietor, a limited company or a partnership firm if they want to act through agent or individual partner(s) should submit along with the tender or at a later . stage, a power of attorney duly stamped and authenticated by a Notary Public or by Magistrate in favour of the specific person whether he/they be partner(s) of the firm or any other person specifically authorizing him/them to submit the tender, sign the agreement, receive money, witness measurements, sign measurement books, compr6mise, settle, relinquish any claim(s) preferred by the firm and sign "No Claim Certificate" and refer all or any disputes to arbitration. Employment/Partnership, etc., of Retired Railway Employees:should a tenderer be a retired engineer of the Gazetted rank or any other Gazetted officer Working before his retirement, whether in the executive or administrative capacity, or whether holding a pensionable post or not, in the..........................................department of any of the railways owned and administered by the President of India for the time being, or should a tenderer being partnership firm have as one of its partners a retired engineer or retired Gazetted Officer as aforesaid, or should a tenderer being an incorporated company have any such retired engineer or retired officer as one of its Directors, or should a tenderer have in his employment any retired Engineer or retired Gazetted Officer as aforesaid, the full information as to the date of retirement of such Engineer or Gazetted Officer from the said service and in case where such Engineer or Officer had not retired from Government service at least 2 years prior to the date of submission of the tender as to whether permission for taking such contract, or if the contractor be a partnership firm or an incorporated company, to become a partner or Director as the case may be, or to take the employment under the contractor, has been obtained by the tenderer or the Engineer or Officer, as the case may be from the President of India or any officer, duly authorised by him in this behalf, shall be clearly stated in writing at the time of submitting the tender. Tenders without the information above referred to or a statement to the effect that
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Page 70 of 124 no such retired Engineer or retired Gazetted Officer is so associated with the tenderer, as the case may be', shall be rejected. Should a tenderer or contractor being an individual on the list of approved Contractors, have a relative(s) or in the case of partnership firm or company of contractors one or more of his shareholder(s) or a relative(s) of the shareholder(s) employed in gazetted capacity in the .......... department of the ......................Railway, the authority inviting tenders shall be informed of the fact at the time of submission of tender, failing which the tender may be disqualified/rejected or if such fact subsequently comes to light, the contract may be rescinded in accordance with the provision in clause 62 of the General Conditions of Contract.
Signature of Witness:(1) (2) Address of the Tender(s) Signature of Tender(s) Date..
East Central Railway (Construction Department) SUMMARY OF TAXES 1.
Page 71 of 124 CHAPTER VI
FLUCTUATION IN MARKET RATES : The rates quoted by the Tenderer(s) and accepted by the Railway Administration shall hold good till the completion of the work and are not subjected to fluctuation(s) of any kind, save and except what is admissible under the Price Variation Clause contained in these documents. (Ref Chapter III, Sl. No. 7.III) RATES TO INCLUDE ALL TAXES : The rates quoted shall be inclusive of all taxes levied by Central or State Govt. or by any Municipal / Local or any other body. However, change of rate of statutory taxes of the State/Central Government and levy of any new type of such statutory tax shall be on Railway account. (Ref Chapter III, Sl. No. 7.IV) Entry Tax:. If any Entry Tax is leviable, the same should be paid by Supplier/Contractor and reimbursement will be done by Railways on production of documentary evidence. This will be applicable only when price quoted by firm does not include Entry Tax.
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SALES TAX CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE: Tender should be accompanied by the up to date Sales Tax Clearance Certificate in From XXXVIII or any other appropriate stipulated format, issued by the appropriate Commercial Tax Officer in favour of the Company, the firm or the tenderer(s) as the case may be, in respect of all works contract or purchase contract to be executed in West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, U.P. and M.P. area. Tender without such certificate may not be considered, and if at all considered, it will be necessary to produce such certificate before any payment is made for executed works and the Contractor shall have no claim in this regard for non-payment for works done in absence of a certificate. Sales tax may be recovered from contractors running bills. (Ref Chapter III, Sl. No. 21) RECOVERY OF INCOME TAX Income Tax @ 2% (Two percent) of the gross amount of the each bill will be recovered from all the bills of the contractor as per Income Tax Act, as introduced through the Finance Act-1972. A surcharge @15 %( fifteen- percent) on the amount of Income Tax so deducted will also be recovered from the contractors bills. This is further subject for increase or decrease as per extant instructions in this regard. (Ref Chapter III, Sl. No. 33) RECOVERY OF SALES TAX: For the work executed in the State of Bihar, Jharkhand, and MP and UP, Sales Tax on Works Contract will be recovered at the source from the Gross amount of each bill of the contractor as applicable. The present rate is 4% of gross work value. This is further subject to increase or decrease as per extant instructions/Act/ Rules in this regard. (Ref Chapter III, Sl. No. 34) ROYALTY:
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Page 72 of 124 6.1 The minerals being used by the contractor should be purchased from valid authorized lease /Permit holders / Authorized dealers. It will be insured by Engineer-at-site. In case of Mooram & earth these permits can be obtained from District Mining officer after entering into an agreement with land holder from where mineral is to be extracted. (Ref Chapter III, Sl. No. 49.1) 6.2 i. The Railway shall do the followings to prevent evasion of royalty and illegal mining. Bill preferred by works contractor in which minor minerals has been used, must be accompanied with an affidavit form M with particulars in form N of the Rules along with a photocopy of said affidavit and particulars. Bill should not be entertained unless accompanied with aforesaid documents. (Ref Chapter III, Sl. No. 49.1) The photocopy of the affidavit and the particulars received with the bill should be sent to District Mining Officer / Assistant Mining Officer within whose jurisdiction the mineral was allegedly purchased, for verification. If the said affidavit or information is found wrong, Mining Officer may take necessary / appropriate action against the contract as per rules. (Ref Chapter III, Sl. No. 49.2.ii) Any increase in royalty after Tender Opening / Negotiation date shall be payable by the Railway. Similarly any decrease in Royalty shall be deducted from the contractors bills by the Railway. (Ref Chapter III, Sl. No. 49.3) The tenderer for carrying out any construction work in Bihar must get themselves registered from the registering officer under Section 7 of the Building and other Construction Workers Act, 1996 and rules made thereto by the Bihar Govt and submit certificate of registration issued from the registering officer of the Bihar Govt (Labor Dept.). For enactment of this Act, the tenderer shall be required to pay cess @ 1% of cost of construction work to be deducted from each bill. Cost of material shall be outside the purview of cess, when supplied under a separate schedule item. (Ref Chapter III, Sl. No. 54) Whereas Income tax and Sales tax shall be deducted from the Contractors bills as per extant instructions issued from time to time, the Contractor shall furnish certificate of payment of Royalty charges from the concerned State Mining department before payment of such bills. (Ref Chapter II, Sl. No. 8)
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Signature of tenderer Dated:_____________
Page 73 of 124 CHAPTER VII East Central Railway (Construction Department) Tender No. 09 of 2012-13 (Open)
Name of work : Rebuilding of major Br No. 21A (2x12.2) & 21B (6x12.2), 21C (5x12.2) and 36A (3x12.2) on pile foundation between Jhanjharpur Laukaha Bazar section in connection with gauge conversion of SakriNirmali & Jhanjharpur -Laukha Bazar section.
SCHEDULE OF ITEMS Schedule of items (Rates to be quoted in this rate sheet only) Sl. No. Description of item Rate (% above/below/at par) In Figure In words
Schedule-A-I 1 Over all percentage above/below over the basic cost of all the items under Annexure-A-1. (Approx. basic cost Rs.7,33,23,106.76) As per details in Annexure-A-I Schedule-B 2. Over all percentage increase/decrease over the rates under Samastipur Division of E.C. Railway Engineering Department Schedules of Rate, 2008 for items not included in Schedule A-1. (Approx. basic cost Rs. 40,00,000/- (Un for seen item). Schedule-C-I 3. Over all percentage above/below over the basic cost of all the items under Annexure-C-I. (Approx. basic cost Rs.2,02,01,045.25) As per details in Annexure-C-I
Page 74 of 124 Sl. No. Description of item Rate (% above/below/at par) In Figure In words
Schedule-C-I 4. Over all percentage above/below over the basic cost of all the items under Annexure-C-II. (Approx. basic cost Rs.5,08,56,427.05) As per details in Annexure-C-II
Note:1. Rates shall have to be quoted as percentage above or below for each schedule separately. Tenderers are not required to quote item wise rates. In case any contractor quotes unified percentage for each schedule and item wise rates against individual items also, no cognizance would be taken for the item wise rates quoted by the contractors. However, railways reserves their right to cancel any tender where item wise rates have been quoted. 2. If any tenderer(s) wishes to give any rebate on the above rates quoted by him, the same shall be quoted by him in schedule-D attached. Rebate offered, shall apply in all the above schedules. Witness: 1. Signature of tenderer 2. Dated:_____________
Page 75 of 124 EAST CENTRAL RAILWAY (Construction Department) Schedule D (REBATE) Tender No. 09 of 2012-13 (Open)
Name of work : Rebuilding of major Br No. 21A (2x12.2) & 21B (6x12.2), 21C (5x12.2) and 36A (3x12.2) on pile foundation between Jhanjharpur Laukaha Bazar section in connection with gauge conversion of SakriNirmali & Jhanjharpur -Laukha Bazar section.
I/we offer general rebate of------------------% (In figures) % --------------------(In words) as lump sum rebate on items of all Schedules; NOTES: 1) If any tenderer wishes to give any rebate on the rate quoted by him the same can be filled by him in this schedule. 2) It is to be noted that such rebate if offer, shall apply on a rate quoted for all the item in all the other schedule of the tender documents. Such a rebate shall be totally unconditional. 3) In case a tenderer does not wish to give any rebate, he should write NIL in this schedule. In case nothing has been filled in by the tenderer in this schedule it will be treated as 'NIL' and shall be so recorded in the blank above at the time of opening of the tender by the Officials opening the tender. 4) If any tenderer gives any type of conditional rebate, such rebate shall not be considered for evaluation of the tender.
Witness 1. 2. Signature of tenderer. Dated:_______________
East Central Railway (Construction Organization)
Page 76 of 124 Annexure- A-I
Tender No. 09 of 2012-13 (Open)

Name of work : Rebuilding of major Br No. 21A (2x12.2) & 21B (6x12.2), 21C (5x12.2) and 36A (3x12.2) on pile foundation between Jhanjharpur Laukaha Bazar section in connection with gauge conversion of SakriNirmali & Jhanjharpur -Laukha Bazar section. . Schedule A SN Description of the Item Unit Qty Rate Amount
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Construction of 1200 mm diameter RCC cast in situ bored vertical pile of Grade M30/35 under pier and abutment of using 20 mm down graded coarse aggregate ( stone chipps) excluding supply of cement and reinforcement steel but including bringing to site and seeting of piling equipment, shifting the same from one pile position to other pile position, dismentling them and reerecting as neccessary. Preparing island or providing PONTOONS as required for placement of piling equipment and providing permanent casing required as per the drawing. GI binding wires, cutting bending, binding and lowering of the reinforcement, boring in all types of soil. Soil mixed with boulder (except rock), and as specified by the Engineer, removal of the excavated spoils to a distance of 500 m , mixing of concrete, depositing it in position, compaction, cutting pile head upto cutoff level for casting of pile caps. Supply and carriage of all material, labour, all leads etc. complete, all as per approved drawings, technical specification and as directed by the Engineer incharge. a) For length pile 20 m below cut off level. b) For length of pile beyand 20 m below cut off level. Notei) No extra payment will be made for empty boring above cut off level. ii) For variations in the length of pile from the approximate length stated in the items the same rate as quoted above will be applicable.
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2020 1110
11255.81 12731.65
22736736.20 14132131.50
Page 77 of 124
SN Description of the Item Unit Qty Rate Amount
iii) The work shall be carried out with ensuring safety of existing bridge. iv) Payment of cement and steel will be done under the relevant items of schedule-C v) Payment of perment casing will be done under the relevant item No. 5. vi) The pile may have required to be driven of various diameter and in that case the rate for those piles shall be made proportionate to area of pile with respect to 1 m. diameter pile. Carrying out routine load test for test load of 2.5 times the vertical working load of approximately 500 MT as per IS:2911 (Part-IV) -1985 on working pile of 1200 mm diameter including provision of all equipment, kenteledge, jacks, plateform, reaction frame with required anchorage, island where required, joist and all other neccessary arrangement, loading and unloading, submission of result, all labour, materials, carriage, leads and lift etc complete, all as per approved drawings. Techinical specification and as directed by the Engineer in charge. Carrying out lateral load test for test load of 1.5 times the working lateral load of approximately 35 MT as per IS:2911 (Part-IV) -1985 on working pile of 1200 mm diameter including provision of all equipment, kenteledge, jacks, plateform, reaction frame with required anchorage, island where required, joist and all other neccessary arrangement, loading and unloading, submission of result, all labour, materials, carriage, leads and lift etc complete, all as per approved drawings. Techinical specification and as directed by the Engineer in charge. Carrying out nondestructive integrity test of piles as per methods approved by Engineer-in-Charge.
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1120456.56
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230894.08
Page 78 of 124
Supplying manufacturing, welding, fixing /driving 8 mm thick MS permanent liner plate for the above piles ( S.No.1) as per approved drawing. The rates shall include the cost of liner plates, all labour, equipment required for manufacturing, welding and fixing and all other incidental charges to complete the works as directed by Engineer in charge. If any deformation occured at the time of driving of liner, that the deformed liner should be withdrawn by the contracter and the same should be replaced. NOTE-(i) No payment of liner will be made for liner used between cut- off level and working platform level. Empty boring measured from working platform level to cut off level required for above bored piles for which guide casing may be required for driving and withdrawal and casting complete in all respect. No extra payment shall be made for this casing. RCC controlled concrete cast in situ/ at nominated site as per IS:456-2000 using properly graded aggregate as per Rly. approved drawing and specification for construction of Bridges/Pile cap/Pier/Pier cap/Abutment/ Abutment cap/ Wing wall/Return wall etc. The rate shall include shuttering, cutting, bending and binding reinforcements with binding wires and placing in proper position, curing up to specified period, deshuttering, running expenses of all tools and plants complete in all respect. (a) RCC M-35/30/25 controlled concrete with 20 mm down chips. CC with cement, sand and coarse aggregate (graded) in bridge foundation / superstructure of Pier / abutment/ wing wall / retaining wall/ and curing up to specified period, deshuttering, running expenses of all tools and plants complete in all respect.
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(a) M-15 with 40 mm down size stone Cum aggregate 9 Dry stone backing uniformly of approved Cum size stone hand packed behind abutment, wing wall, beyond drop wall and curtain wall/ drop wall with contractor's labour and materials including all lead, lifts, crossing of Rly. Tracks etc.The void will be filled up by coarse sand to be supplied by contractor. The weight of stone should be between 30 to 54 Kgs. 10 Supplying and pitching of boulders Cum uniformly of approved size stone hand packed and surface levelled off to correct section. The void will be filled up by coarse sand to be supplied by contractor. The weight of stone should be between 30 to 54 Kgs. 11 Supplying and filling of backfill Cum materials behind wings, abutments and return walls with all leads, lifts, descends, ascents, crossing of track, rivers, nallahs, channels etc. with contractors labour, materials and tools & plants as per direction of Engineer in charge. The back fill materials shall consist of GW, CP and SW as per direction of Engineer-in-charge. 12 Supplying and fixing 50mm dia PVC meter pipe for weep holes in abutments, wing walls and return walls as per drawing and direction of Engineer-in-charge. 13 Earthwork in filling in embankment, trolley refuses, level crossings, platform etc. with all classification of approved soil to be done in layers not exceeding 300mm with breaking of all size of clods, filling of loose pockets, voids & hand ramming and as directed by Engineerin-charge. a) With earth of approved quality and Cum specification obtained from Railway land with all lead, lift, crossing of track as per site condition. b) With earth of approved quality and Cum specification obtained from outside Railway land with all lead, lift, crossing of track as per site condition.
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Page 80 of 124 S N Description of the Item Unit Qty Rate Amount
Notei) Earthwork shall be done strictly in accordance with provision of R.D.S.O.'s Guidelines, GCC and additional condition and specification given in tender documents. ii) Payment of Royalty, Taxes, cost of earth and any other incidental charges are to be borne by the contractor and the quoted rate should include all such charges. iii) The contractor shall establish field laboratory with all equipment for conducting required soil tests and compaction test at site, the quoted rate should include all such charges. iv) Samples of earth along with its test result as prescribed and slope analysis results shall be submitted to Engineer-incharge for approval before making embankment. v) The temporary service road, if required for transportation of earth to be prepared and maintained by the contractor at his own cost. vi) Payment will be done based on cross section measurement. vii) Before quoting rate the contractor should inspect the site to asses the lead, site condition etc. 14 Extra for mechanical compaction for the earthwork in embankment with contractor roller in layers not exceeding 300 mm in order to achieve the required density. The rate shall include all incidental charges, to test soil in laboratory, sprinkling of water if required complete in all respect. 15 Turfing surface area of newly constructed embankment slopes with green sods 50mm thick as approved by Engineer-incharge. The rate shall include purchase price of sods, its transportation, leading, watering, safe guarding the same until properly tented through the embankment soil. Witness 1. 2.
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1500 0
596.58
89487.00
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73323106.76
Signature of tenderer. Dated:_______________
Page 81 of 124 Annexure- C-I

Name of work : Rebuilding of major Br No. 21A (2x12.2) & 21B (6x12.2), 21C (5x12.2) and 36A (3x12.2) on pile foundation between Jhanjharpur - Laukaha Bazar section in connection with gauge conversion of Sakri-Nirmali & Jhanjharpur -Laukha Bazar section. Schedule C-I
Sl. No. SUPPLY OF CEMENT Description of items Unit Qty Rate Amount
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20201045.25 20201045.25
Note: 1. Material as per requirement shall be brought to site and kept under contractors custody at his own cost and risk without any damage like setting of cement etc. 2. Payment for the materials will be made through running and final bills as per actual consumption in the work and whatever the wastage that takes place i.e. empty cement bags etc. will be the contractors property and the same shall be removed from the site at his own cost 3. Cement is to be procured from the main producer/ authorized dealers and shall conform to latest IS (BIS) specifications. Cement bags preferably be in paper bags should bear following informations in legible marking (i) Manufacturers name (ii) Registered trade mark of manufacturer, if any (iii)Type of cement (iv) Weight of each bag in kg. or no. of bags/ton (v) Date of manufacturing, generally marked as well as month/year of manufacture (vi) It will bear the ISI certification mark 5. Manufacturers test certificate conforming to latest IS specification should also be produced by the contractor, duly authenticated by the gazetted officer of the Engineering department. 6. Contractor shall also establish his own field laboratory equipped with apparatus, duly manned for carrying out the following tests of the cement according to relevant IS (BIS) specifications. (i) Compressive and tensile strength (ii) Initial and final setting time (iii) Consistency (iv) Soundness (v) Fineness modules 7. The Railway reserves the right to take samples of materials supplied by the contractor and to get the same tested in reputed laboratories and the results thereof shall be binding on the contractors.
Witness 1. 2.
Signature of tenderer. Dated:_______________
Page 82 of 124 Annexure- C-II

Name of work : Rebuilding of major Br No. 21A (2x12.2) & 21B (6x12.2), 21C (5x12.2) and 36A (3x12.2) on pile foundation between Jhanjharpur - Laukaha Bazar section in connection with gauge conversion of Sakri-Nirmali & Jhanjharpur -Laukha Bazar section. .
Schedule C-II SUPPLY OF REINFORCEMENT STEEL S. No. 1 Description of items Supply of reinforcement steel to the site of work to the extent required by the Railway for use in the work. The rate quoted shall include all costs, transportation, storing and all other incidental charges. (a) Thermo-mechanical treated (TMT) reinforcement steel Fe 415 of any diameter conforming to IS : 1786 & IS:2062 Unit Qty Rate Amount
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1005
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50856427.05
TOTAL
50856427.05
Note: 1. Material as per requirement shall be brought to site and kept under contractors custody at his own cost and risk without any damage like rusting of steel etc. 2. Payment for the materials will be made through running and final bills as per actual consumption in the work and whatever the wastage that takes place i.e. cut pieces etc. will be the contractors property and the same shall be removed from the site at his own cost 3. The steel are to be procured from SAIL, TISCO or RINL and shall confirm to latest I.S specifications. However, the reinforcement rods of diameter 12 mm or less (confirming to latest I.S specifications), may either be procured from SAIL, TISCO or RINL or from their conversion agents. 4. The Railway reserves the right to take samples of materials supplied by the contractor and to get the same tested in reputed laboratories and the results thereof shall be binding on the contractors Witness 1. 2. Signature of tenderer. Dated:_______________
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Rebuilding of major Br No. 21A (2x12.2) & 21B (6x12.2), 21C (5x12.2) and 36A (3x12.2) on pile foundation between Jhanjharpur - Laukaha Bazar section in connection with gauge conversion of Sakri-Nirmali & Jhanjharpur -Laukha Bazar section.
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Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (Con) Mahendrughat, Patna 800 004.
PART-II
Page 84 of 124 CHAPTER-VIII East Central Railway Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (Con)/North Mahendrughat, Patna - 800 004 SPECIAL CONDITION & SPECIFICATION FOR EARTHWORK. 1. GENERAL 1.1 Earthwork shall be done generally in accordance with provision of General Conditions of Contract and East Central Railway Standard Specifications for Works and materials-2008. 1.2 The book Guide line for Earthwork in Railway Projects Guide line (GE:G-1) issued by Geo-technical wing of RDSO in July 2003 known here under, as RDSO guidelines shall form the basis of principles for conducting all testing and execution of work of embankments. A copy of this book can be purchased form the office of Chief Admin. Officer (Con), East Central Railway, Patna at a price of Rs 100/-. 1.3 Standard sections for Earthwork in formation, cutting, blanketing for single line, double line conventional doubling are given in the Indian Railways Permanent Way Manual 2004 and Indian Railways Code for Engineering Dept. 1993,which are Government of Indias priced publications. However, a set of such standard sections can be purchased from the office of Chief Admin. Officer(Con), East Central Railway, Patna at a price of Rs 100/-.These sections are for guidance of contractor to assess the type of work involved but the actual dimensions/side slopes etc. may vary to some extent depending on local conditions. 1.4 Where these conditions and specifications are in conflict with or repugnant to the East Central Railway Standard Specifications and/or other books mentioned as Book of Reference in this tender document, the clause of these Special Conditions and Specifications shall prevail. 2. EARTHWORK. 2.1 Before the work is started, the whole area between the toes of the bank or top of cutting shall be properly cleared by the contractor of all Trees, Roots, Heavy grass and all obstructions. No extra payment will be made for such work. All trees of girth (parameter) more than 12 inch at 1 meter above the bottom shall be the property of the Railway and the Contractor shall, after uprooting, deposit the same with Railway. Before cutting trees, necessary permission required from the forest department or any other appropriate authority, shall be taken, by the contractor on the basis of Railways recommendatory letter. 2.2 (a) Where an embankment is being extended in width, the slope of the existing embankment shall benched as per specification of GCC and the cost for the same shall be included in the through rate and shall not be payable separately. (b) Before commencing the work, Labeling as specified in GCC & East Central Railway Standard Specifications for Works and materials-2008 shall be done. 3. PAYMENT. 3.1 Payment shall be made on finished cross sectional quantities, cross sectional areas at various points shall be worked out and the arithmetic mean of the areas, at any two such continuous points multiplied by the horizontal distance between these two points measured along the centerline of the alignment shall be taken as the quantity of earthwork between the two points on which the payment shall be made. The contractor shall have no claim for the quantities over and above the
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Page 85 of 124 payments on account of subsidence, base settlement, wastage or guttering due to rain, floods, wind, wave wash etc. All bridges and other gaps shall be deducted in full from the quantity of the earthwork. SETTLEMENT ALLOWANCE: Where the embankment is compacted to specified dry density mentioned hereunder, no allowance for settlement of the bank shall be made, where the bank has been formed by dumping earth, light tamping, and/or passing a monsoon over it, necessary allowances for settlement as specified in the GCC shall be made. All payments shall be made in accordance with items given in the Schedule of Items only. Any arrangements/works required to be done to achieve the work defined in various Items of the Schedule of Items shall be done at contractors cost without any extra payment and the Contractor should include such expenses in the rates quoted against the said items. While making embankment, earth shall not be dumped in any standing water at the location where embankment has to be constructed. If there is any standing water, the same shall be drained or pumped out completely before any earth is dumped in this area. In case of draining out or pumping out water, no extra payment will be made to the contractors and quoted rates for earthwork shall cover all such charges. There shall be only two classifications of soil, e.g. (a) All types of soil except those requiring blasting for excavation (b) those requiring blasting. All the payments for excavations in cuttings shall be made as per the Schedule of Items only on the basis of these two classifications. LEAD / LIFT etc.: No separate lift / crossing of line or similar item shall be payable separately otherwise than provided in the Schedule of items. Lead shall be payable as provided in the Schedule of Items. Lead for the purpose of payment will be measured on a longitudinal section of the alignment from center of gravity of the Cut to the center of the gravity of the fill, along a straight line. Measurements of distance of lead shall not be done at site even if the contractor does not or is unable to follow this straight line. The assessment of lead is a drawing table exercise. The L-section shall be divided into segments, each of appropriate and suitable length, and volume of earthwork in each segment calculated. Segments of cut and fill will then be matched and lead measured from L-section from center of gravity of cut to center of gravity of fill, in such a way that the total amount payable on the lead is the least. For this purpose, spoils are not to be lead across obstruction caused by waterways with major bridges unless a road bridge exists by the side of the alignment. Waterway with minor bridges shall be ignored because contractor is expected to build temporary culverts across them on its own cost for leading spoils. It is desirable that the contractor before commencing work draws the lead chart in L-section based on the above guidelines and tentatively decides lead and fills area. The contractor shall try to stick to this lead during execution of the work. The contractor in his rate, if any, shall cater for variations. The spoils from cuttings shall normally be utilized for earthwork in embankment. Where the cutting spoil has been used for making embankment, payments shall not be made for both cuttings as well as embankments. Only one payment, i.e., for cutting shall be allowed. However, lead over free lead (100 M) will be paid separately as provided in the schedule of the work. Surplus, unsuitable spoils shall be dumped in neat stacks on Railway land or disposed off as directed by Engineer at site for which no extra payment will be made.
Page 86 of 124 3.9 Stone excavated from cuttings, which may be considered useful for use as building stone, for pitching or for breaking into ballast or chips shall be stacked separately by the contractor as directed by the Engineer at site. This stone will be property of the Railway and may be issued as Railway materials to the contractors as pitching etc. in accordance with relevant Item of L&M Schedule. 3.10 If any service roads, culverts, bridges etc. are to be built, the contractor shall build the same at his own cost., including ramps for transporting earth to make embankment, all the service roads are to be maintained by the contractor at his own cost. No separate payment for such works shall be made. 3.11 The contractor shall break all clods / lumps of soil and fill up all hollows in the earthwork in embankment by light tamping / consolidation which may be achieved by a few passes of plate vibrator or a suitable type of roller. The rates in items in earthwork in embankment shall include this. 3.12 The contractor may be asked to use Geo-Synthetics / Geo textiles in the embankment if it is found that the use of Geo-synthetics reduces the overall cost considerably. In such an event, special rates and conditions shall be separately negotiated with the contractor, but the contractor shall have no claim for reduction in quantities of other items. At the time of such negotiations, the Railway shall obtain a No Claim certificate to this effect. The Railway also reserves the right to get the installations of the Geo-synthetics / Geo textiles etc. executed through other agencies 3.13 The borrow pits shall be kept sufficiently away from the toe of the embankment to prevent base failures. The contractor may carry out a stability analysis to decide the distance. In case such analysis is not done, this distance of borrow pits from the toe of the bank shall be minimum of 3.0 meter + height of the bank. 3.14 The work of bolder pitching, turfing etc. Shall be carried out under ECR/SOR 2008 unless other wise specified. 3.15 Turfing shall be done during monsoon period only. The contractor shall take care of the turfing including watering of the turfing, in case of failure of monsoon, till the sods/seeds take firm roots. The sods/seeds shall be of approved quality. 4. SOIL EXPLORATION/ TESTING 4.1 The contractor shall arrange for testing of the soil at his own cost without any extra payment to ascertain the suitability of the soil for formation of embankment, to obtain its heavy proctor density characteristic and to obtain strength parameters such as cohesion (C) and angle of internal friction etc of the soil in the compacted / un-compacted conditions in the embankment in order to design slopes. The testing of the soil to be done in accordance with the following RDSO guidelines. 4.2 SOIL EXPLORATION TO BE DONE AS UNDER. (A) Cutting (> 6.0 m depth) . (NOT APPLICABLE) (1) (2) (3) (a) Bore logs: (Depth = Depth of cutting + 3.0 minimum) Collection of undisturbed soil samples: 100 mm diameter at every 1.5m interval or change of strata. Laboratory tests of soil sample. Soil classification as per IS standard.
Page 87 of 124 Grain size analysis (clay, slit, sand and gravel %) including hydrometer analysis. Natural Moister Contents ( NMC) Natural Dry Density (NDD). Liquid limit, Plastic limit. Effective Shear Parameters. C = (effective cohesion), = (effective angle of shear resistance). Tests to be done in fully saturated condition: (g) Tri-axial shear apparatus (CU) test: - Consolidated un-drained tests with pore pressure measurements Or Direct shear test in consolidated drained condition (CD) test. (B) Embankment- Subsoil investigation. ( APPLICABLE) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (1) (2) (3) (4) (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) Bore log (Depth = 2 x height of embankment) Collection of undisturbed soil samples 100mm diameter at every 1.5m intervals or change of strata. Standard penetration test (N-Value) at 1.5m intervals in a bore hole.
Laboratory tests of soil samples. Soil classification as per IS standard. Grain size analysis (clay, slit, sand and gravel %) including hydrometer analysis. Natural Moister Contents ( NMC) Natural dry density (NDD). Liquid limit, Plastic limit. Effective shear parameters. C = (effective cohesion), = (effective angle of shear resistance). Tests to be done in full-saturated condition. (g) Tri-axial shear apparatus (CU) test: - Consolidated un-drained tests with pore pressure measurements Or Direct shear test in consolidated drained condition (CD) test. (C) Embankment (in swampy or in water logged areas) (APPLICABLE) (1) Soil exploration and testing depth of soft strata. (2) Laboratory test of soil samples. (a) Soil classification as per IS standard. (b) Grain size analysis (clay, slit, sand and gravel %). (c ) Natural Moister Contents ( NMC) (d) Natural Dry Density (NDD) (e) Liquid limit, Plastic limit. (f) Effective shear parameters. C = (effective cohesion), = (effective angle of shear resistance). Tests to be done in full-saturated condition. (g) Tri-axial shear apparatus (CU) test: - Consolidated un-drained tests with pore pressure measurements Or Direct shear test in consolidated drained condition (CD) test. (h) Consolidation test. (ii) Fill Material: soil classifications and shear parameters are required to design the safe side slope. (APPLICABLE) (a) Effective shear strength parameters (C& ) in remolded condition at 90% of max. dry density as determined in accordance to IS : 2720-Pt.VIII (Heavy compaction). Tests are to be done in fully saturated condition. (b) Soil classification as per IS standard. (c) Grain size analysis (clay, slit, sand and gravel %) including hydrometer analysis. (d) Liquid limit, Plastic limit. (e) Compaction test to determine
Page 88 of 124 - Maximum Dry Density - Optimum Moisture Content (OMC) as per IS: 2720-Pt.VIII (Heavy compaction.). (D) Slope stability: Based on soil survey and explorations locations showing signs of instability, creep, slips etc. should be analyzed by stability analysis with effective shear strength parameter ensuring a minimum factor of safety of 1.4. Bank or cutting with height / depth of 6.0m or more must be checked for stability of slopes. 4.3 The contractor shall also make arrangements for quality control of compaction of the embankment by establishing and manning adequate Field Laboratory (ies). The in-situ moisture content of compacted soil shall be determined according to the any one of the procedures given in IS: 2720 ( Pt. II)-1973 . The Field dry density should be determined by any one of the methods given in IS: 2720 (Pt. XXVIII)-1974 or IS: 2720(Pt. XXIX) 1975 or IS: 2720 (Pt. XXXIV)-1972. The tests shall be performed after removing top 5cm layer of earth (IS: 10379-1982). 4.4 The contractor shall establish Field Laboratory (ies) to cover all the above investigation except triaxial and other test ascertaining strength characteristics, for which he may appoint any other centralized laboratory where he will get the tests done at his own cost. 4.5 The contractor shall submit samples of earth which he proposes to use for formation of the embankment along with relevant tests results as prescribed above to the Engineer before commencing earthwork and shall get the same approved by Dy.CE / in charge for use. While approval of the sample for use, the consideration of particles size distribution shall, not be only consideration. The safe slope of the embankment as can be obtained from that sample of earth when compacted according to these specifications; total quantities required and over all economy shall also be considered while considering the suitability of the earth for embankment. 5. DETERMINATION OF MAXIMUM DRY DENSITY: 5.1 For clayey soils: the maximum dry density shall be determined by heavy proctor compaction test in accordance with IS: 2720(Pt. VIII)-1983. The dry density and moisture content relationship shall be obtained for a number of samples and shall cover moisture contents ranging from 2% less than the optimum moisture contents to plastic limit. 5.2 Sandy and silty soil: With moderate cohesion: (a) Where the soil is amenable to compaction and satisfactory results are contained when compacted by heavy proctor test as per IS: 2720(Pt. VIII) 1983. The soil shall be treated like clayey soil in the manner mentioned above (b) Where the soil is not amenable to test by heavy proctor test, field trial as per IS:10379 1982 shall be conducted to achieve moisture content, density and rolling relationship. Such moisture content should cover a range of high moisture content so that such relationship is available in quality control of compaction at higher moisture contents in accordance with Para below: 5.3 Gravelly soil : For gravel fraction up to 30% moisture content density relationship shall be obtained by heavy proctor test IS:2720 ( Pt. VIII)-1974 on 40mm IS sieve (IS 10379 1982) 5.4 Weathered soils: In certain weathered soils behavior to compaction in field differ from laboratory compaction characteristics and the maximum compaction achievable for such soil in the field shall be determined in accordance with provision of method 3 of IS ; 10379-1982. 6. SUITABILITY OF EARTH FOR EMBANKMENT:
Page 89 of 124 6.1 Soils shall be used for the embankment with approval of Dy.CE/ Con subject to the following. (a) Organic clay silts and peat shall not be used. (b) Poorly graded sands and gravels with uniformity coefficient of less than 2 should not be used for earth work for the bank to safe guard against liquefaction under vibration of moving loads or especially during earthquake tremor. (c) In gravelly soil, percentage of gravel shall not exceed 30%. (d) In situations where soils for construction of embankment consist of cobbles, boulders, rocks or waste fragments etc largest size of material should normally not be greater than 2/3 rd of the loose layer thickness. However it should be ensured that after every 1 to 3 meter of such construction a 30cm layer of compacted soil (other than unsuitable soil for construction) be provided. A detailed slope stability analysis also needs to be carried out to ensure stability of such embankments. (e) The soil shall be of Low Potential expansivity also called degree of expansion (refer IS: 2911- Part III). The differential free swell also called free swell index determine in accordance with IS:2720 part XI 1977 shall not exceed 20%. 6.2 Top 1m of the embankment shall be constructed with earth with liquids limit not exceeding 45 to avoid shrinkage, cracking of soil; etc. during change of weather. In case such soil is not available at a reasonable cost, the Engineer may permit the complete bank to be constructed out of the earth as available and increase the thickness of the blanketing suitably. 6.3 The moisture content of the soil, which the contractor brings to site for making embankment, should be appropriate for compaction as specified in these specifications, otherwise he has to make arrangement for adding extra moisture or drying the soil to achieve the desired moisture content. 6.4 PREFERRED FIELD MATERIAL: (i) Fine particles (less than 75 size) less than 50%. (ii) Liquid limit less than 35% and plastic index less than 15. (iii) Uniformity coefficient (C) greater than 7. (iv) Minimum achievable Dry Density with heavy compaction as per IS: 2720 Pt. VIII should be greater than 1.85 gm/cc. 7. COMPACTION : 7.1 Before work is commenced, the contractor is advised to conduct, field compaction trials for his own guidance so that compaction is efficiently and economically achieved. This trial should also be used to assess the thickness of the loose layer of soil that should be adopted for formation of the bank, as well as to determine the most efficient type of rollers. RDSO guidelines have given the suitable, type of roller and the same may be taken as guidance. 7.2 Water, if required, for adding to the earth shall be arranged free of cost by the Contractor himself. 7.3 The compaction of soil is essentially required for obtaining a uniform soil mass of desired density and known soil properties. The method of compaction should, therefore, be shown accordingly. 7.4 In cutting area the final surface shall be suitably compacted by suitable type of roller to achieve desired dry density/strength. 7.5 SUITABILITY OF TYPE OF ROLLER: Type of soil Suitable type of roller Course grained soil such as gravels, Rubber tyre roller, vibratory sands and gravel sand mixtures with plate or smooth wheel roller. very little trace of fines Gravels or sands with appreciable Rubber tyre roller, vibratory
Page 90 of 124 rollers, sheep foot rollers. Rubber tyre roller, vibratory rollers, sheep foot roller. Silts and clays of high plasticity. Sheep foot rollers and vibratory rollers. 8. METHOD OF COMPACTION OF EARTHWORK 8.1 After site clearance all pockets and depressions left in the soil, if any, shall be made good and compacted. Generally Earthwork shall be done in layers not exceeding 300 mm thick in loose state and compacted with suitable roller to obtain the specified density as per IS: 10379 1982. The number of passes of the roller and the optimum thickness of each layer will be fixed after carrying out field trials with the roller proposed to be used from time to time from location to location. The main criteria are being to obtain the maximum density achievable uniformly. 8.2 Cohesionless soils shall be compacted to get a minimum density index (relative density) of 70% as obtained in accordance with IS: 2720(Pt. XIV) 1983. 8.3 All other types of soils when compacted shall attain at least 98% of the maximum dry density as determined using heavy compaction in accordance with IS: 2720 (Pt. VIII) 1983 followed by field trials as per IS: 10379 1982. In case it is not possible to achieve the 98% dry density of heavy proctor test during field trials, contractor would bring this fact in the notice of Dy.CE/Con , who in turn would obtain specific approval from concerned CE/C in writing on case to case basis duly mentioning such reaches. Reasons for non achievement of such density should be clearly brought out while seeking the approval of concerned CE/C. 8.4 If the soil is dry, water shall be sprinkled either in the borrow pit or over the spread layer, as convenient in order to obtain a workable moisture content before rolling is commenced. Where the natural moisture content of borrow pit is high, compaction in higher moisture contents can be allowed by the permission of Engineer-in-charge. 8.5 Each layer shall be compacted to the specific density over its entire width commencing from the two sides, before another layer is started. 8.6 While compaction it shall be ensured that there is minimum overlap of 150 mm between each run of the rollers. 8.7 Care should be taken during the compaction operation to slope the surface of the bank to facilitate the shedding and to minimize the absorption of rainwater, particular attention being given to the prevention of ponding. 8.8 The Railway shall ascertain the density of each layer of compacted soil by testing adequate number of soil samples. 8.9 The quality of compaction work shall be determined by considering the Mean Density of the samples collected mostly on either side of the center line at intervals of 10 M or so with a few taken at random near the two sides in each layer. The Mean Dry Density shall be equal to or exceed the minimum specified density. In no individual case the density be less than the minimum value specified by more than 2% otherwise further rolling shall be done at the appropriate location. 8.10 The contractor shall be allowed to lay a further layer of soil only after the compaction of a particular layer has been found satisfactory. 8.11 The top of the formation shall be finished to a slope of 1 in 30 away from the centers. 8.12 Extra width of 50 cm shall be rolled on either side, which after finishing the bank up to final height shall be dressed to final cross section by removing the loose earth or extra width. No extra payment for this extra width shall be made amount of silt or clay Silts and clays of low plasticity.
Page 91 of 124 9. In parts to embankment which are inaccessible to the specified rolling equipment, e.g. around and in contact with culverts, abutments or in proximity to structure where rolling equipment will either not be possible to operate, or not permitted to operate, compaction shall be accomplished by hand tamping followed with plate vibrators or suitable mechanical means in layer of thickness not exceeding 150 mm. In such areas, the maximum dry density to be achieved as a result of compaction shall not be less than 90% of the maximum value achievable at that moisture content.
10. 10% of amount of work executed shall be with held in on A/c bills and will be released after completion of side slope , dressing ,turfing and top camber work of embankment Witness 1. __________________ 2. __________________ Signature of Tenderer(s) Date________________
Page 92 of 124 East Central Railway Chapter - IX Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (Con)/North Mahendrughat, Patna- 800004 SPECIAL CONDITION AND SPECIFICATION FOR BRIDGE WORKS 1. The tenderer are required to inspect the site and carry out careful examination so as to satisfy themselves as to the nature of work involved and facilities available at site. They should also note carefully all the existing structures and those under construction through other agency (if any), and should take adequate me protection to all such structures, including Railway track during course of execution of work under this contract. The rates quoted by the tenderer(s) and accepted by the Railway Administration must cover all such charges. Railway land as existing and as separable will be made available to the contractor free of charge for building their stores Godown, camp office, girder casting/fabrication yard etc. The contractor shall make their own arrangement at their cost for leveling and dressing the ground or developing the land. WATER: Water required for the work and also for drinking purpose should be arranged by the contractor from his own source and at his cost. If water from Rly's source is available near the site of the work the Rly may supply the same to contractor from one point only on Railway's usual charge and the contractor should arrange for extra pipe as may be required for distribution at his cost. Water used for cement concrete/RCC/PSC and all sorts of concrete work should be tested as per Codal Provision for its suitability for the work and test report should be obtained initially from the approved Govt. laboratory at Contractor' s cost and submitted DY.CE/ Con or DEN/Con-in-charge of the work. Source of water should not be changed without prior approval of the DY.CE/Con-in-charge. Locally available water, which is not suitable for concrete work, may be allowed to be used for curing purpose only. ELECTRICITY : The contractor shall make his own arrangement for electricity required for running machinery and illumination at his own cost. The Railway will recommend his application to the Civil Electricity Board/Company and render necessary assistance as possible. If the contractor is unable to get the supply from the Board/Company and Railway is required to supply, then supply, if available, will be provided at one Point from there the contractor will lay the distribution system to various points of work. Such supply made by the Railway will be as per standard terms and conditions applicable to outsiders as stipulated by the Chief Electrical Engineer, E. Rly. The railway undertakes no responsibility for shut down, load shading or failure of power supply and consequent help-up of work, idle labour, machinery etc. and no compensation, payment is admissible. The charges on account of electricity supplied, will be recovered from the contractors bills, but he will have to deposit in advance the installation charges etc. as will be fixed by the Electrical Department. CORRDINATION WITH OTHER CONTRACTORS : The other works for bridge may be done simultaneously by the other agency of State Govt./Central Govt./Railway .Therefore the contractor should ensure that the works of the other contracts are not hampered in any way, rather he should co-ordinate/draw the programs in consultation with the Engineer-in-charge of the work, so that the work of this contract as a whole is completed within the target fixed. In case of
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Page 93 of 124 any conflict between the two contractors in respect of working facilities at site, the decision of the Engineer-in charge of the work shall be final and binding on both the contractors. 6. DAMAGE TO ADJACENT PROPERTIES/WORKS: The contractor shall be held responsible for any damage of Railway/Public property including telephone line, cable etc., which may be caused by any of his action in connection with or in the execution of the work. SETTING OF THE WORK : The contractor shall arrange without any additional charges requisite number of men with all the equipments and materials as necessary for the purpose of setting out of the work. Similar arrangement will have to be made by him at the time of measuring the work whenever required to be carried out by the Engineer-in-charge of the work. LOCATION AND LEVEL : The contractor shall be responsible for the correct location, level and alignment according to the approved drawing notwithstanding that the Engineer-in-charge or his authorized representative shall have periodically checked the same. SUSPENSION OF WORK : Engineer-in-charge may order the contractor to suspend any work for any reason whatsoever and no compensation for such suspension of work shall be payable to the contractor, However, the additional time of completion of the work that may be sanctioned by the Railway Administration on written application of the contractor to complete such suspension of work.
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10. NIGHT WORK : The contractor shall have to carry on with the work during night if considered essential to maintain he progress of the work and his quoted rates should be inclusive of any additional expenditure involved in the working at night. 11. The contractor must provide all plants and machinery with crew i.e. Drivers, cleaners and necessary consumable store like coal, fuel, oil, lubricating oils for Engine and provide adequate number of transport vehicle for bringing materials at site. They should undertake all temporary arrangement required for carrying out the work. The tenderer should submit a list of tools and plant in their possession for carrying out the work along with his offer. 12. Shoring on all sides of foundation trench will have to be adopted where necessary and as will be directed by the Engineers to return earth, at Contractor's cost. 13. The work involved in head and/or truck leading of materials and crossing of tracks will not be paid extra. The rate quoted should cover all such expenditure. 14. For unforeseen item of work for construction if required to be done, payment will be made by E.C.Rly's Schedule of Rate 2008 with percentage above and below quoted by tenderer in schedule "B". If any items are not covered by the Schedule of Rate 2008, the rate for such work will be arrived at by analysis based on labour and materials rate provide in the schedule of rate 2008. If no such analysis is possible from Schedule of Rates, the analysis will be made from prevailing market rates with 12 % contractors overhead and profit.
Page 94 of 124 15. The contractor shall provide all appliances, efficient and sufficient staff & labour for setting out and shall set out the works and every part thereof and shall be responsible for the accuracy of the lines, Levels and dimensions of the work in accordance with the drawings, further drawings, directives or instructions issued at any time to him and every facility shall be given to the Engineer and all persons, duly deputed or authorized by him in writing for checking the same. The Contractor shall also allow or amend any error in the dimensions, lines or levels to the satisfaction of the Engineer or his authorized representative without claming any compensation for the same. 16. The contractor shall make his own arrangement on his own sole account for procuring all materials (except than those to be supplied by the Railway as per clause......... of the instructions to Tenderers) to be used on works under this Agreement with the Railway Administration. The rates quoted by him, against the Schedule of items, should be entirely inclusive so as to cover any purchase price and/or royalties and/or compensation for surface damage paid or payable by the contractor to land owners Mining authority etc. and all other charges incurred by him whatsoever including all lead, lift etc. 17. If the contractor enters on land not belonging to or held by the Railway Administration for collection or quarrying of materials or any other purpose whatsoever he shall make his own arrangements with the owner or owners of such land, with regard to, and shall be solely/personally liable for the payment of any purchase price and/or royalties and/or compensation for surface damage, and the Rly. Administration shall in no circumstance be purport to be made party to any such arrangements and be liable for any such payment and/or compensation. 18. The contractor will not be entitled to any compensation for any delay for execution of the work arising from delay from the Railway Administration side. The delay so caused will be assessed and accepted by the Engineer determining any extension of the time required to complete the work for which purpose only accepted period of delay will be taken into consideration. If the matter is not brought to the notice of the Engineer immediately such delays occur, no consideration for extension of time will be made later on. The contractor must accept as final and binding the decision of the Engineer-in-charge of the work. 19. QUALITY CONTROL : 19.1 To ensure that the materials used for the work are as per the approved specifications, it is necessary for the contractor to have a small field laboratory with complete equipments at the site of work which will enable carrying out of standard tests for the quality of water, sand and aggregate etc. The rates should also provide for equipment for casting, Curing and testing of sufficient number of 6" cubes for compressive tests. Testing of the cubes should be got done through Alipore National Test House or any other approved Government Testing Laboratory as and when necessary, Periodical testing of water may also be got done through Alipore Test House or any other approved Government. 19.2 The Concrete work shall be done in accordance with Indian Railway Standard code of Practice for plain reinforce and pre-stressed concrete for general bridge construction (Concrete Bridge Code) or IS-456-2000 or relevant IRC codes as applicable.
Page 95 of 124 19.3 All concrete items will be measured without any reduction for the volume of reinforcement as and steel structural. 19.4 Concrete will be as per IS code (IS-456-2000). All concrete should be vibrated except for concrete placed in water for the bottom plug. Strength specified for various concrete in Schedule of Items is for 28 days strength of the well foundation. 19.5 The mix of all controlled concrete to be used shall be designed suitably as per IS10262-1982 to meet requirements or strength and economy. Number of cubes may be made by trial mixes and tested to achieve the desired strength of the concrete. 20. AGGREGATE AND SAND : Periodical sieve analysis of the aggregate and sand will be carried out as necessary to ensure that the percentage of different sizes of aggregate and sand do not vary from the worked out during designing the concrete Mix 21. WORK TESTS AND STANDARD OF ACCEPTANCE: Number of cubes to be taken and tested should be in accordance with the provisions made in IS code 456-2000 and the results should satisfy the minimum requirements given therein. 22. The work under Rly. Traffic or by temporarily or by blocking Rly. Traffic, should be carried out under the supervision of Engineers/Supervisors of the contractor who have adequate experience of carrying out such works. 23. The contractor should carry out the work in such a way that would ensure safety to Railway Traffic and Railway properties. The works whose execution is having safety implication, should be carried out only under the direct supervision of competent Bridge Supervisors from Railway. 24. BLOCK REQUIRED: The contractor should specify the requirement of temporary block required for the work. Temporary blocks will be arranged by the Engineerin-charge of the work. Temporary blocks will be arranged by the Engineer-in charge of the work for the minimum period as suits the operating Department of the Railway. 25. The contractor shall keep sufficient stand-by equipment like mixer vibrator etc. for concrete work so that concreting is not affected by break down of tools and plants. 26. On C.C. or R.C.C. work, no cement plaster shall be permitted. The shuttering with cement/line plaster finish may be adopted for roof slabs, lintels etc. 27. Where the concrete is cast on ground i.e. in foundation, bottom slab of R.C.C. Box etc. a water proof film of polythene shall be spread on the ground after ground is leveled and compacted, to prevent soaking of moisture/water of the concrete into the ground. 28. All the materials like aggregate, sand and bricks shall be as per specifications laid down is GCC Before use, all materials shall be approved by the Engineer-at-site, Before use, they shall be cleaned of all mud, muck, grit etc. and shall be washed with clean water, if directed by Engineer, before use.
Page 96 of 124 29. The payment of the following items of R.C.C. will be made under relevant items of ECR Schedule of Rates, 2008, as detailed below. 30. ADMIXTURE: Admixture confirmed as per RDSO guidelines (Report No. BS-25) may be used in concrete with Engineer's prior approval, if required. 31. For excavation in foundation, contractor shall ensure stability and safety of foundations as detailed in chapter 1 of East Central Railway Standard Specifications for Works and materials-2008. 32. Weep holes shall be kept in wing wall and abutment of bridges by placing thick gauge 50 mm Dia PVC pipe in the concrete before casting spaced 1.0 m vertically & horizontally staggered. No deduction in volume of contract will be made. Witness 1. 2. Signature of Tenderer Date _____________
Page 97 of 124 Chapter - X East Central Railway Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (Con)North Mahendrughat, Patna- 800004 SPECIAL CONDITIONS AND SPECIFICATIONS OF CONTRACT FOR FOUNDATION AND SUBSTRUCTURE SITE CLEARANCE: Site clearance wherever involved shall be undertaken and the same shall be considered incidental to the earthwork items and the contract unit rates for the same shall be deemed to be including of clearing and grubbing operation.
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Page 98 of 124 sheeting and other excavation supports shall be carefully removed as filling proceeds but the removal of such supports will not relieve the contractor of his responsibility for the stability of the works. 2.2 MEASUREMENT FOR PAYMENT: structures shall be measured in cubic meters, limited to the dimensions shown on the Drawings or as directed by the Engineer keeping in view practical necessity for proper execution of the work. Foundation sealing, dewatering including pumping shall be deemed to be incidental to the work and no extra payment shall be payable for this work. For any treatment of foundation such as grouting of cavities and fissure, extra payment will be made at mutually agreed rates. 2.3 RATES : The Contract unit rate for the items of earthwork in excavation for structures shall be paid in full for carrying out the following operations: (i) Setting out including all ancillary work like pegging and supply of pegs etc. (ii) Construction of necessary sheeting, shoring and bracing and their subsequent removal. (iii) Removal of all logs, stumps, grubs and other deleterious matter. (iv) Back filling upto the top of foundation, clearing up the Site and disposal of all surplus material within leads up to 200 meters inclusive of all lifts and descents etc. (v) All labour, materials, tools, construction plants, safeguards and incidentals necessary to complete the work upto the specifications 3.0 MATERIALS FOR STRUCTURES: All materials to be used in the works shall be in conformity with the requirements laid down as below: If any special material, not covered here is required to be used, it shall conform to relevant IS Specifications if there are any, or to the requirements specified by the Engineer. BINDING WIRE: Binding wires used for binding the reinforcements shall be of approved soft annealed G.I. wire not less than 1mm (18 SWG) size and conforming to IS 280. STRUCTURAL AND REINFORCEMENT STEEL: Mild structural steel: All structural steel shall conform to IS:226 for mild steel. The steel suitable for welding shall be in accordance with IS:2062. The reinforcement steel shall be Thermo Mechanical Treated (TMT) bars conforming to IS 1786. TIMBER: The timber used for structural steel purposes whether permanent / semi permanent or temporary work shall conform to IS: 883. WATER FOR CONCRETE AND MORTAR: Water shall be clean and free from injurious amount of deleterious materials. Normally potable water from an approved source may be considered satisfactory for washing aggregates, mixing and curing concrete. Water shall comply with specifications as stated in IS: 456. OTHER MATERIALS: All materials not herein specified fully and which may be allowed to be used in the works at the discretion of Engineer shall be procured in accordance with relevant IS or in absence of an IS code, the appropriate codes as
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Page 99 of 124 described under Clause 49 of Special Conditions of Contract. The Engineer or his representative shall have the right to inspect and determine whether all or any of the materials brought to site for use in the works are suitable for the purpose. Any materials rejected by Engineer or his representative shall be removed from the site and replaced with suitable materials at his own expense by the contractor. 3.5.2 AGGREGATES FOR CONCRETE: 3.6.1 General The aggregates (coarse and fine) for concrete shall comply in all respects with IS: 383 and shall be obtained from an approved source. Aggregates, which are not clean, are to be washed to the satisfaction of the Engineer or his representative, in water of quality as described in Clause 3.4. If the Engineer so directs, the contractor shall provide and operate a washing plant to ensure adequate supply of clean aggregates within the approved grading limits. All such washed aggregates shall be stored and drained for at least 24 hours before being used for concreting. The coarse aggregates, unless otherwise specified or authorized by the Engineer shall be delivered to the site and shall consist of approved stone free form flaky or elongated pieces. All aggregates shall be protected from dust contamination by methods approved by and to the satisfaction of the Engineers representative. 3.6.2 The fine and coarse aggregates shall be measured separately by weight and mixed in the proportions specified or permitted for the various qualities of concrete except where volume batching is permitted by the Engineer. The individual and combined grading shall be as per relevant IS Codes and to the satisfaction of Engineer. 3.6 SAMPLES AND TESTS: 3.7.1 General The samples of all the materials proposed to be used by the contractor in the work shall be got tested by the contractor in an approved laboratory and necessary test certificates indicating that all these materials conform to the various provisions laid down in the relevant IS codes other relevant standard specification these specifications and shall be submitted to the Engineer on request free of charge. 3.7.2 TEST CERTIFICATES: All manufactures certificates of tests, proof sheets, mill sheets etc. showing that the materials have been tested in accordance with requirements of the appropriate Indian Standard other relevant standard specification these specifications, shall be supplied free of charge on request to the Engineer or his representative. 3.7.2.1 Samples of the following materials shall be submitted to the Engineer or his representative free of charge for testing and approval. (i) Stone (ii) Aggregates (iii)Bituminous materials. (iv) Any other materials as directed by Engineer. Samples provided to the Engineer or his representative for their retention are to be in labeled boxes suitable for storage. Materials or workmanship not corresponding in Character and quality with approved samples shall be rejected. Samples required for testing and approval must be supplied giving sufficient time to allow for such testing and approval, due allowance being made to the fact that if samples are rejected further samples shall be required. Delay to the works arising from the late submission of samples shall not be accepted as a reason for delay in completion of the work.
Page 100 of 124 3.7.2.2 The testing of the materials may be carried out by the Railway in its own laboratory if facilities for such tests exist. If the materials are not found to comply with the various provisions laid down in the relevant I.S. Codes other relevant standard specifications these specifications, the same shall be rejected irrespective of the test certificate submitted by the Contractor in compliance with Clause 3.7.1 and 3.7.2.3 In addition the Engineer shall have the right to require the Contractor at any time to draw samples of aggregates or any other materials from stockpiles on the site or any other locations to be indicated by the Engineer or his representative. The samples are to be drawn in accordance with IS: 2386 and tested in a laboratory approved by the Engineer in accordance with the appropriate Clause of IS 2386 at the cost of the contractor. 3.7.2.4 Tests for the determination of impurities in the sand shall be made once daily until the Engineer is satisfied that the specified compressive strength is being regularly obtained when with his approval, such tests shall be made once weekly and at other times as directed to the Engineer. 3.7.3 ADDITIONAL TESTS: In addition to the tests required under Clauses hereof, the Engineer or his representative may order tests to be carried out by an independent person appointed by him at such place or in such laboratory as he may determine in accordance with the appropriate Clauses of IS 2386 and cost of such tests shall be borne by the Contractor. 3.7.3.1 The results of all such tests as described herein above and later or in preceding paras shall be forwarded to the Engineer or his representative for his retention as record. 3.7.4 INSPECTION OF MATERIALS: 3.7.4.1 Whenever the Engineer or his representative gives notice to the contractor that materials are to be inspected off the site, the contractor shall, having regard to the location of the materials and the nature of the inspection, test or examination required, give to the Engineer or his representative at least one week notice of such materials being ready for inspection, test or examination. 3.7.4.2 Delay to works arising from the late submission of such notice will not be acceptable as a reason for delay in the completion of the works. 3.7.5. REJECTION OF MATERIALS: 3.7.5.1 Materials shall be tested before leaving the manufacturers premises, where appropriate. Materials may also be tested on the site and they may be rejected if found not suitable or not in accordance with the specifications not withstanding the result of tests at the manufactures works or elsewhere or test certificates. 3.7.5.2 The Engineer or his representative shall have the right to order, at any time, any aggregates or other construction materials, which do not meet with his approval, shall not be used in the works. Such rejected materials shall be removed from the site by the Contractor at his own expenses, not withstanding any prior approval which might have been given earlier. 3.7.5.3 In case of default on the part of the contractor in removing rejected materials within the time specified in notice, the Engineer shall be at liberty to get these removed by other means at the cost of the contractor. 3.7.6 STORAGE OF MATERIALS: 3.7.6.1 All materials to be used in permanent works shall be stored on racks, supports, stock piles in bins under cover etc. as appropriate, to prevent deterioration or
Page 101 of 124 damage from any cause whatsoever to the satisfaction of the Engineer or his representative. 3.7.6.2 The Contractor shall at all times maintain on the site such quantities of each type of aggregates as are considered by the Engineer or his representative to be sufficient to ensure continuity of work. 3.7.6.3.1 Each type of grading of aggregates shall be stored in separate stacks on a hard floor having sufficient slope to ensure adequate drainage of surplus water. Wet and washed aggregate shall be kept in storage for at least 24 hours to ensure adequate drainage before being used for concreting. 3.8 PLAIN AND REINFORCED CEMENT CONCRETE: 3.8.1 GRADE OF CONCRETE: For all items of concrete in any part of the bridge structure Design mix concrete shall be used. However, nominal mix concrete may also be used where it is shown on the drawings or as directed by the Engineer, for concrete of grade M 20 and below only. 3.8.2 TYPE OF CEMENT: In general for all mass and reinforced concrete PPC cement conforming to IS 1489/IS 455 shall be used. However, Railway reserves the right to ask the contractor at any time for using other varieties of standard cement complying with the relevant IS codes or any other standard specifications and the contractor shall use the same without any additional claims whatsoever on this account. In case of Pre-stressed concrete works only OPC is to be used. STRENGTH REQUIREMENT OF CONCRETE:
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3.8.3.1 For concrete work where mix design concrete is to be used, mix shall be designed. Mix design shall be done as per I.S. code or any other approved method for concrete mix design as directed by the Engineer. Mix design will be done by the contractor and got approved from the Engineer. 3.8.3.2 For ordinary concrete, mix is not required to be designed by preliminary tests and proportions of cement; fine and coarse aggregates are specified by volumes. 3.8.3.3 In designation of concrete mix letter M refers to the mix and number to the specified 28 days characteristic compressive strength of that mix on 150 mm cubes expressed in N/mm2. 3.8.3.4 The compressive strength requirements for various grades of concrete shall be as given in table below: GRADE OF CONCRETE SPECIFIED CHARACTERISTIC COMPRESSIVE-STRENGTH OF 150 MM CUBE AT 28 DAYS IN N/mm2 M15 15 M20 20 M25 25 M30 30 M35 35 3.8.3.5 Where the strength of a concrete mix as indicated by tests lies in between the strength of any two grades specified in table above such concrete shall be classified for all purposes as concrete belonging to the lower of the two grades between which its strength lies.
Page 102 of 124 SETTING UP OF FIELD LABORATORY BY THE CONTRACTOR : The contractor shall set up a field laboratory of his own at work site as per site requirement which should be open for use and inspection by the Railway at any time All the pressure gauges and other machines, equipments and measuring instruments of the laboratory shall be got checked and calibrated regularly as directed by the Engineer by an independent agency and the adjustment certificates shall be furnished to the Engineer. The Contractor shall render all reasonable assistance and help in making such checks and tests etc. The cost of all checks and calibrations shall be born by the Contractor. The cost of all tests for materials and cubes shall be borne by the Contractor. 3.10 TESTS AND STANDARD OF ACCEPTANCE:3.10.1 PRELIMINARY TEST FOR DESIGN MIX CONCRETE: 3.10.1.1 Design of the mix shall be carried out by the Contractor in his own laboratory in presence of the Engineers representative. 3.10.1.2 Trial mixes shall be made using samples of the aggregate and cement and water proposed be used in the works. 3.10.1.3 Should the strength shown by the preliminary tests prove to be below the figures specified in Para3.8.3.4 the Contractor shall make such changes in proportions as are required to bring the concrete up to the required strength. 3.10.1.3 Wherever mix has been approved, no variations shall be made in the proportions, the original source of the cement and aggregates or in the type, size and grading zone of the latter including water cement ratio without the consent of the Engineer who may require further tests to be made. 3.10.1.4 For Design Mix concrete, the concrete mix shall be so designed as to attain specified characteristic compressive strength of 150 mm cube at 28 days as indicated in IS 456. 3.9 3.10.2 WORKS STRENGTH TESTS FOR DESIGN MIX AND ORDINARY CONCRETE: 3.10.2.1 The Contractor shall be held responsible for ensuring that the crushing strength of the concrete as placed is not less than the designed strength as per approved plans. 3.10.2.2 Works strength tests shall be made in accordance with IS: 516. Each test shall be conducted on ten specimens, five of which shall be tested at seven days and the remaining five at 28 days. The samples of concrete shall be taken on each day of concreting and cubes shall be made at the rate of one for every 5 cubic meters of concrete or a part thereof. However, if concreting done in a day is less than 15 cubic meters, the minimum number of cubes can be reduced to 6 with the specific permission of the Engineer or his representative. Similar work tests shall be carried out whenever the quality and grading of materials is changed irrespective of the quantity of concrete, poured. Cement used for making the test cubes shall be supplied by Contractor within his quoted rates. 3.10.2.3 The Contractor shall provide at his own expense all necessary labour, materials including concrete moulds, equipments for sampling and all other ancillaries required in preparing, specimens etc. as given in Clause 3.10.2.2 and arrange to carry and test these specimens in his owns field laboratory. The Contractor shall test these specimens in presence of the representative of Engineer. Duplicate results shall be maintained under the joint signature of the Contactor and the Engineers representative, one set of the result being kept with the Contractor and the other with the Engineers representative. 3.10.2.4 All work shall be carried out under the supervision of a qualified and competent Engineer of the Contractor who shall supervise proportioning, placing and compacting of concrete at all stages.
Page 103 of 124 3.10.2.5 The Engineer reserves the right to take samples and concrete test cubes independently at his own discretion. The contractor shall provide all facilities at his own expense, in preparation of such samples and concrete test cubes such as labour, material including concrete moulds, equipment for sampling and all other ancillaries required in their preparation. The contractor shall also arrange to transport these specimens to the Railways laboratory / Govt. approved laboratories at his own cost. Contractor shall depute his representative during testing who shall sign the test results as a token of contractors acceptance. 3.10.3 3.11 STANDARD OF ACCEPTANCE The acceptance criteria for concrete shall be as indicated in IS 456.
PROPORTIONING CONCRETE : For high quantity of concrete Design mix shall be followed and for small quantity of concrete ordinary nominal mix may be followed. 3.11.1 DESIGN MIX CONCRETE: 3.11.1.1 The proportions of the ingredients shall be taken by weight from the stock piles collected at site and already approved on the basis of preliminary tests. Care shall be taken that the supply of properly graded aggregate of uniform quality is maintained till the completion of works. Grading of aggregate shall be controlled by obtaining the coarse aggregates in different sizes and blending them in right proportions as required. Grading of coarse and fine aggregate shall be checked as frequently as possible and as determined by the Engineer. 3.11.1.2 Cement shall have to be weighed from bulk stocks at site and not by bags; it shall be weighted separately from the aggregates. 3.11.1.3 Water shall either be measured by volume in calibrated buckets or weighted. All necessary equipment shall be maintained in a clean and serviceable condition. Their accuracy shall be periodically checked. 3.11.1.4 To maintain the specified water cement ratio constant and at its correct value, moisture content in both fine and coarse aggregates shall be determined with reference to IS 2386 (Part-III) and amount of mixing water shall then be adjusted suitably. 3.11.2 ORDINARY CONCRETE: 3.11.2.1 Ordinary concrete mix shall generally be specified by volume. Volume of ingredients shall be worked out taking 50 kg. of cement as 0.035 cum in volume. While measuring aggregates by volume, shaking, ramming or hammering shall not be done. Allowance for bulking of damp sand shall be made as per IS: 2386 (Part-III). 3.11.2.2 Ingredients required for ordinary concrete containing one 50 Kg. bag of cement for different grade of concrete is given below: Grade of M M M Concrete 10 15 20 Mix by volume 1:3:6 1:2:4 1:1:3
3.11.3 QUANTITY OF WATER:3.11.3.1 Optimum quantity of water shall be mixed just to produce a dense concrete of required workability. Workability shall be such that the concrete surrounds and properly grips all reinforcements. The degree of consistency, which shall depend upon nature of work and method of vibration of concrete shall be determined by
Page 104 of 124 regular slump tests, Usually for mass concrete in R.C.C. foundation works where vibrators are used the slump shall be within 10mm to 25 mm. 3.11.3.2 The workability of concrete both ordinary and Design Mix of different grades used in different components shall be determined by regular slump tests to be carried out by the Contractor at his own cost, the frequency of such tests and the natures of slumps shall be maintained within the limits specified by the Engineer. The Engineer also reserves the right to carry out the slump tests independently at his own discretion. 3.11.4 MIXING CONCRETE:3.11.4.1 All concrete shall be mixed at site in a Batching Plant drum type mechanical mixer of first class working condition to the satisfaction of Engineer-in-charge. Mixing shall be continued till materials are uniformly distributed and a uniform color of the entire mass is obtained and each individual particle of the coarse aggregate shows complete coating of cement mortar. The mixing shall in no case be less than 2 minutes after all the ingredients have been put into the mixer. 3.11.4.2 Mixers, which have been out of use for more than 30 minutes, shall be thoroughly cleaned before putting in a new batch. Mixing plant shall be thoroughly cleaned before and after use. A stand by mixing plant, equivalent to that in use, shall be provided and maintained ready for immediate use during any breakdown. USE OF ADMIXTURES: The admixture to be used in the concreting work should conform to IS: 9103. The admixtures to be used should be of approved quality and it should not adversely affect the properties of concrete or mortar particularly in respect of strength, volume- change, durability and it should have no deleterious effect on reinforcements. Admixtures containing Calcium chloride shall not be used in structured concrete containing reinforcement, pre-stressing tenders or other embedded metal The admixtures containing Cl & SO3 ions shall not be used. Admixtures containing nitrates shall also not be used. Admixtures based on thiocyanate may promote corrosion and therefore shall be prohibited. 3.11.6 FORM WORK: 3.11.6.1 The term form work includes all temporary or permanents forms essential for forming the concrete, together with all temporary construction props, bracings, ties required for the support. In general the erection and removal of formwork shall be in accordance with the provision given under IRS Concrete Bridge code. 3.11.6.2 CONSTRUCTION AND PREPARATION OF FORM WORK BEFORE CONCERETING: Forms for concrete shall be made of either metal or timber; suitably ply lined and is of substantial and rigid construction true to shape, alignment and dimensions as shown on the approved drawings. Forms shall be mortar tight and shall be made sufficiently rigid by the use of ties and bracings to prevent any displacement, deflection or movement of any kind. They shall be strong enough to withstand the weight of the construction, all pressure, ramming and vibration, movement of persons, materials and plant during and after placing the concrete. Special measures shall be taken to ensure that the formwork does not hinder the shrinkage of concrete because without these cracking could occur before the formwork is removed. The formwork 3.11.5
Page 105 of 124 should take due account of the calculated amount of positive or negative camber so as to ensure the correct final shape of the structures. When the forms are ready for commencing concreting, the contractor shall inform the Engineer or his representative to inspect and accept the form-work and forms as to their strength, alignment and general fitness. Being satisfied with the form work Engineer then may allow the contractor for pouring concrete but such inspection and permission shall not relieve the contractor of his responsibility for safety of man, machinery, materials and for results obtained. 3.11.6.3 REMOVAL OF FORM WORK: The consent of Engineer or his representative shall be obtained in all cases before removing any formwork but such permission shall not relieve the contractor of his responsibility in respect of any injury or damage to the concrete work arising from the removal of the forms. Forms shall be so constructed and fitted as to be removable in sections in the desired sequence without damaging the surface of concrete or disturbing other sections. Due consideration shall be given to the local conditions, character of structure, the weather, climate and temperature and other conditions that influence the setting of concrete before removal of formwork. Where internal metal ties are permitted they shall be extracted or cut without causing any damage to concrete and remaining holes filled with mortar. No permanently embedded metal part shall have less than 25 mm clear cover to the finished concrete surface. The contractor shall make good, at his own expense, any injury or damage to the concrete work arising from removal and striking of forms and supports. The form works shall be cleaned and made good to the satisfaction of the Engineer before re-use. The cost of all form-work shall be deemed to have been included in the rate for cement concrete items of work and shall not be paid separately. 3.11.7 TRANSPORT, PLACING AND COMPACTION OF CONCRETE: 3.11.7.1 The concrete work will be done by mixing cement, sand and coarse aggregate in the computer controlled automatic batching plant, transported to the site in transit mixtures and concrete placed in position by concrete pumps. Batching plant, transit mixtures and concrete pump should be of adequate capacity so that requirement of placement of concrete without construction joint can be met in a period of 10 to 12 hours. All concrete shall be so transported and placed that no contamination, segregation or loss of its constituent materials takes place. 3.11.7.2 All form work and reinforcement, contained in it shall be cleaned and made free from standing water, dust, snow or ice immediately before placing of concrete. No concrete shall be placed in any part of the structure until the approval of Engineer or his representative has been obtained. Concrete shall be compacted in its final position within 30 minutes of its discharge from the mixer. Concrete when deposited shall have a temperature of not less than 4.5oC and not more than 38oC. In extreme weather conditions, provisions of IS 456 should be followed: 3.11.7.3 Except where otherwise agreed to by the Engineer or his representative concrete shall be deposited in horizontal layers to a compacted thickness of not more than 450mm when internal vibrators are used and not exceeding 300mm in all
Page 106 of 124 other cases. In no case concrete shall be allowed to be dropped from a height of more than 2 meters. 3.11.7.4 When concrete is conveyed by chutes the plant shall be of such size and design so as to ensure practically continuous flow. Slope of the chute shall be so adjusted that the concrete flows without the use of excessive quantity of water and without any segregation of its ingredients. The delivery end of chutes shall be as close as possible to the point of deposit. The chute shall be thoroughly flushed with water before and after each working period and the water used for this purpose shall be discharged outside the formwork. 3.11.7.5 All concrete shall be compacted to produce a dense homogeneous mass with help of vibrators except in case of concrete poured under water, where vibrators cannot be used. To ensure thorough and properly compacted concrete, the contractor shall carry out necessary compacting factor tests at his own cost at such frequency and at the value of compacting factor to be maintained as decided by the Engineer. The Contractor shall have to carry out other tests like penetrometer and Vee Bee consistometer tests or any other tests as directed by the Engineer at his own cost. The Engineer, however, reserves the right to carry out such tests independently at his discretion. Sufficient vibrators in serviceable condition shall be kept at site so that spare equipment is always available in the event of breakdowns. Internal vibrators shall be capable of producing not less than 10,000 cycles per minute and external or form vibrators not less than 3,000 cycles per minute. Vibration shall not be applied through reinforcement and where vibrators of the immersion type are used, contact with reinforcement and all inserts shall be avoided, as far as practicable. 3.11.8 CONCRETING UNDER WATER: 3.11.8.1 The methods, equipment, materials and proportions of the mix to be used shall be got approved by the Engineer or his representative before concreting under water. 10 percent extra cement shall be added per mix of concrete over that required by the grade specified. Greatest care shall be taken to prevent the cement being washed out and the concrete shall be deposited by means of a tremie or using the skip boxes system. Pumping shall always be kept as nearly level as possible to prevent formation of seams. 3.11.8.2 The deposition of concrete should run continuously until it has been brought to the required height. The top surface shall always be kept as nearly level as possible to prevent formation of seams. 3.11.9 FINISHING: 3.11.9.1 Immediately after the removal of forms, all exposed bars or bolts passing through R.C.C. member and used for shuttering or any other purpose shall be cut inside the R.C.C. member to a depth of at least 25 mm below the surface of the concrete and the resulting holes be closed by cement mortar. 3.11.9.2 All construction and expansion joints in the completed works shall be left carefully tooled and free from any mortar and concrete. Expansion joint filler shall be left exposed for its full length with clean and true edges. 3.11.9.3 If in the opinion of the of the Engineer, the pockets/honeycomb in the structure are found to such an extent or character as to affect the strength of the structure materially or endanger the life to reinforcement he may declare such concrete defective and order for its removal and replacement at the expense of the Contractor. 3.11.10 CURING: All concrete shall be protected immediately after compaction and during hardening from harmful effects of rain, running water, sunshine, frost, driving winds, shocks, vibration, traffic and rapid temperature changes. All exposed
Page 107 of 124 faces of concrete shall be kept continuously wet by applying water or covering with wet sacking, hessian etc. for a period of not less than 14 days from the date of deposition. 3.11.11 CONSTRUCTION JOINTS: 3.11.11.1 All construction joints whether, horizontal or vertical shall be at predetermined position according to approved drawing or as directed by the Engineer. Prior to commencement of fresh concreting over any construction joint which has set but not hardened, the removal of laitance and roughening shall be done by wire brushing and washing and care shall be taken to avoid dislodgement of coarse aggregates. 3.11.11.2 At construction joints where the concrete has set hard, any skin or laitance shall be thoroughly hacked, swept cleaned and washed with clean fresh water. The surplus water shall be removed immediately before depositing fresh concrete. The neat cement grout shall be followed by a 13 mm thick layer of cement mortar of same proportion as in concrete and concreting resumed immediately thereafter. The first batch of fresh concrete shall be forced hard on to the mortar layer and the set faces, angles and corners by means of compacting tools, vibrations, etc and the damping effect on vibration in such position shall be allowed for. 3.11.11.3 Construction joints shall be avoided as far as practicable in case of structures, especially at tensile zones, where unavoidable, concreting shall be carried out continuously upto such joints which shall preferably be transverse to the line of main compression. However, in all cases, the positions of construction joints shall be predetermined and got approved by the Engineer. 3.11.12 MEASUREMENT FOR PAYMENT The work of cement concrete shall be measured in cubic meters. The volume occupied by reinforcement shall not be deducted in reinforced concrete. 3.11.13 RATE FOR CONCRETE WORK The unit rate for concrete work shall be quoted to include the cost of all materials including admixtures, if any (if the situation so warrants the contractor shall use the plasticizer for which nothing extra will be paid), except cement and reinforcement steel, which will be paid separately under Sch.-C, labour, tools and construction plants required for proper mixing, transporting, placing in position, vibrating and compacting, finishing, curing and cost of all form work including erection and removal and all other incidental expenses for producing concrete of required strength to complete the structure or its components as per approved drawings and according to these specifications complete in all respects to the satisfaction of the Engineer. 3.12 REINFORCEMENT: 3.12.1 All reinforcements shall be cleaned thoroughly by removing loose scales, oil, grease or other deleterious materials. The contractor shall obtain the approval of the Engineer or his representative to the reinforcement when fixed in position before any concrete is deposited in the forms. 3.12.2 Bars shall be bent cold or straightened in a manner to the satisfaction of the Engineer or his representative. Bars bent during transport or handling shall be straightened before using on work, they shall not be heated to facilitate bending. 3.12.2.1 WELDING:As per relevant IRS Specification. 3.12.3 PLACING AND MAINTENANCE OF REINFORCEMENT IN POSITION: 3.12.3.1 All reinforcement bars shall be cut and standard hooks made at ends and accurately placed in position as shown on the approved drawings and shall be securely held in position before and during concreting by annealed binding wire
Page 108 of 124 (as specified in Clause 3.1) and by using dense concreting spacer blocks prepared and cured as directed by the Engineer or his representative, or metal chairs, metal spacers supporting wires or other approved device at sufficiently close intervals. Bars will not be allowed to sag between supports nor displaced during concreting or any other operation over the work. Metal supports shall not extend to the surface of the concrete, except where shown on the drawings. Pieces of broken stone or brick and wooden blocks shall not be used. 3.12.3.2 As far as possible, bars of full length shall be used. When bars are required or permitted to be lapped by the Engineer or his representative, the overlaps shall be staggered for different bars and located at points, along the span where neither shear not bending moment is maximum. The concrete cover measured over the reinforcing bars shall be in accordance with the approved drawings or IS Code provisions. 3.12.4 MEASUREMENT FOR PAYMENT Reinforcement shall be measured in length (running meter) separately for different diameters as actually used in the work including overlaps, hooks at ends and excluding of chairs, supports as actually placed and incorporated in the work from the length so measured the weight of the reinforcements shall be calculated based on the standard unit weight. 3.12.5 RATE FOR RE-INFORCEMENT WORK: 3.12.5.1 The unit rate for reinforcement work shall be quoted so as to include its transportation and storing at Contractors worksite, bending, fixing and binding in position by Contractors own labour and equipments as per approved drawings and as directed by the Engineer. It shall also include the cost of annealed binding wire as per Clause 3.1 and all other tools and equipments. Rate quoted by the tenderer should include provision for wastage in cutting, providing spacers, separators and hanger bars etc. and no extra payments shall be made towards the same. 3.12.5.2 The accepted rates do not allow for welded joints of bars. Lap/Butt welding of bars if required shall be paid for separately at mutually agreed rates. 4.0 4.1 4.1.1 4.1.2 WELL FOUNDATION: Well foundations shall generally be constructed as per Clause 1200 of MOST specifications. SET OUT: Before the work is started the whole of the work site shall be cleared by the Contractor at his own cost. Contractor shall set-out the work according to the plan and as directed by the Engineer or his representative. Reference pegs are to be made permanent and kept clear of all obstructions. It is the responsibility of the Contractor without any extra payment to fix the center-line and position of the piers during the course of the work. A base line will be fixed by the Railway and Contractor should make use of this base line for fixing the center line of the piers. If required, the Contractor shall lay subsidiary base lines as required during execution of the work. Contractor shall obtain the approval in writing from the Engineer for the correctness of the setting out and the reference marks, before commencing the actual execution of the works. However, such approval shall not relieve the Contractor of his responsibility in correct setting out of the work. WELL CURBS CUTTING EDGE: The cutting edge for well curb shall be fabricated by M.S. Plates and angles or other approved structural sections as per approved drawings true to its shape
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Page 109 of 124 and size. The fabrication shall conform to general practice of IS: 800. All bent up plates and angles for the cutting edges shall be pressed hot in properly constructed dies. The splicing of the cutting edge may be made into three or more segments as per approved drawing and as directed by the Engineer. Fabrication and joining of all sections of cutting edge shall be such as to bring the bottom edge in one plane. 4.3 PLACING OF CUTTING EDGE FOR WELL CURB: 4.3.1 EARTH WORK: All excavated earth/sand and spoils after dredging shall be deposited properly at a place or places including the bridge approaches up to 200 meters distance, clear of the water way as directed by the Engineer. No extra payment for lead, lift, ascent or descent for this work will be made to the contractor. 4.3.2 Construction of islands for proper well sinking shall be such as to provide stable working area for placing the machinery and form work, and movement of man and materials. Top of the Island shall be at least 1.2 M above the water level at the site of work. The cutting edge shall be well supported so that the well does not tend to sink unevenly with the addition of load while casting the well curb. The shuttering, especially the inner shuttering, shall be very well supported Payment for making Island shall be made only once. 4.3.3 However, keeping in view the flow conditions at the time of execution of works, the location where caisson will be used and where island is to be constructed, shall finally be decided by the Engineer whose decision shall be final and binding on the Contractor. 4.3.3.1 The cutting edge shall be placed as close as possible to the lowest water level or sub-soil water level recorded at the time of placing each cutting edge. The date and the reduced level of such water level shall be recorded in History Book and Measurement Book maintained by the Engineer or his representative. The lowest water level or sub-soil water level shall also be recorded on the day when sinking is commenced. The levels thus recorded shall be attested by the Engineer or his representative and the Contractor. Subject to provision under Para 4.3.5, the well sinking shall be paid from the reduced level of the lower of the two water levels thus recorded irrespective of the level at which the bottom of the cutting edge is placed. However, in case of caissons the payment shall commence from the river-bed level which shall be recorded duly attested by the Engineer or his representative and the Contractor just before placement of the Caisson in position. 4.3.4 If the sub-soil water level is not met within a depth of 4m from the bed/ground level the cutting edge shall be placed at a depth of 4.00 meters from the bed/ground level for the particular well. 4.3.5 The well curbs shall be assembled on timber laid on the leveled sand bed. Before commencing the erection, the contractor shall carry out such load tests of the ground as may be necessary to determine the satisfactory spacing of the timbers and the stability of Island during erection and concreting of well curb. 4.3.6 Concrete in curbs shall not be placed until the erection of steel work and reinforcements has been completed and approved by the Engineer or his representative. Concrete shall be placed in a continuous operation in layers not exceeding 300 mm in depth extending around the whole length of the curb each layer being systematically compacted applying mechanical vibration in order to reduce voids and increase the density. The entire concreting in the well curb shall be completed in a continuous manner. 4.4 CAISSONS FOUNDATION:
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Page 110 of 124 The caissons for piers in the deep water portion of the river (to be decided by the Engineer) may be built in a dry dock or slipway to be arranged by the contractor, floated out and towed to the site with or without floaters and settled on a bed previously leveled by under water crabbing and dressing by divers. The Contractors special attention is invited to the danger from passing boats, vessels and barges moving up and down frequently, which may impinge on the pier under construction due to an error of navigation or failure of engine, etc. Contractor shall be fully responsible for any damage to work on this account and he shall take precautions as necessary of safe guard against any damage in his own interest. The rate per metric tone of caisson work includes rate for the design and fabrication of steel work, launching and sinking charges up to bed level and incidental expenditure including benching or filling up the bed of the river at the site to the appropriate level required to receive the caisson without any danger of tilting on raising position. Detailed working drawings for the caisson shall be made out by the Contractor and the Railways approval to them obtained before fabrication. All fabrication work shall conform to the IS: 800. Also, the contractor shall have to supply all such design calculations to prove the strength, stability, buoyancy and draught of the caisson in various stages of sinking. Concrete and reinforcement inside caisson shall be paid separately. The M. S. structural and M.S. plates required for fabrication will be supplied by the Contractor under Schedule-C-II. The payment for caisson will be made in two stages. 50% of the quoted rate shall be paid on completion of part fabrication of caisson before it is taken in the river for founding. Balance 50% shall be paid after the successful founding of caisson. Contractor shall arrange for insurance of the caisson structure and indemnify Railways for any loss thereof. Alternatively for the cost of the caisson, a bank guarantee will be submitted to cover the probable loss. FOR STEEL WORK IN CUTTING EDGE/CAISSONS ETC.: Contractor(s) may use bolted/welded construction wherever riveted construction is specified for steel work. CONCRETING OF WELL STEINING: The dimensions and shape of the well steining shall strictly conform to the approved drawings. The well steining shall be built in one straight line from bottom to top and being checked carefully by means of straight edges of lengths approved by the Engineer. Use of plumb bob or spirit level shall not be allowed. Precaution shall be taken so that the well curb and steining must be caused and sunk true to its vertical position. The provision of efficient concrete mixing plant of suitable type and of adequate capacity including suitable equipment for rapid distribution of mixed concrete shall be kept at site with sufficient accessories to the satisfaction of the Engineer. The exact procedure adopted with regard to the amount of concreting to be carried out between sinking stages shall depend upon the type of sinking apparatus used by the Contractor and the conditions prevailing at each stage of the work as decided by the Engineer. In order to facilitate checking at any stage of sinking the well steining including the curb or caisson shall be calibrated by making 4 gauges crosswise and perpendicular to the cutting edge along the outer periphery of the well starting from the center line of the cutting edge. Each gauge shall be 10 cm wide strips and painted white. The gauge marks at the interval of 10 cm apart starting from
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Page 111 of 124 center line of the cutting edge shall be painted black and written in bold capital letters. Marking of each full meter shall be with red paint. Making of the gauge shall be done carefully with best quality steel tape. The exact level of the cutting edge at any intermediate stage of sinking shall be determined there from by the use of a suitably divided short level staff. The rates for sinking as quoted by the Contractor shall include the cost of all this painting, making gauge etc. After sinking of a stage is complete, all damaged portions of steining at top of the previous stage shall be properly repaired before constructing the next stage. If so required, the contractor may provide false extra steining on the foundation wells above the designed top level of steining to facilitate sinking from higher working level to suit the programme of construction. The work of extra steining so provided shall be paid at rate quoted the same in respective schedule of item. SINKING OF WELLS: The curbs shall be placed and cast truly in position. The steining shall be constructed in stages and the well sunk vertical within permissible limits (as detailed in Clause 4.8) to reach the final founding levels as required. (The rate of sinking shall be inclusive of sinking well through all types of strata inclusive of soil mixed with shingles and layers containing calcified sand, silt stone and conglomerates required in the process of normal sinking). Suitable method of sinking other than pneumatic sinking, may include open dredging with Contractors construction plant, employment of divers, and use of explosive required in the process of normal sinking. However no claim due to any obstructions such as isolated boulders, logs of trees, sunken boats etc. met with during sinking or due to any other difficulty experienced in this process shall be entertained. No claim shall be entertained in respect of difficulties due to sand blowing met with during sinking of wells. No claim on account of heavy Kent ledge required, either for sinking of wells or for any other reasons, shall be entertained by the Railway. Two dredge holes in case of Double D well should be simultaneously worked with grabs to ensure even and quick sinking. Dredged spoils shall be removed and deposited at a place or places including the bridge approaches upto 200 meters clear of the waterway as directed by the Engineer or his representative. The waterway and work site shall not be blocked with such materials. The approved quality of dredged soil shall be stacked separately as directed for re-use for which no separate payment for collection shall be made. Well sinking shall be carried out as far as possible by open dredging. Where the Contractor considers that continuation of open sinking has become impracticable he shall submit full details of his proposal for sinking under compressed air to the Engineer for decision. The contractor shall make such modifications to his plant or proposed procedure for sinking as the Engineer may require, but such instruction or approval given by the Engineer in respect of the Contractors proposals for sinking shall in no way relieve the Contractor of his responsibility for the proper execution and safety of the works and of the personnel employed thereto. Pneumatic sinking of wells shall be restored to only where (i) The well has to be sunk through soft rock and stray hard rock and (ii) The Engineer is satisfied that all other methods employed by the Contractor consistently have failed to sink the well satisfactorily further down. However, the decision of the Engineer so as to resort/or not to resort to pneumatic sinking shall be final and binding on the Contractor.
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Page 112 of 124 The sinking operation carried out by use of pneumatic method shall be paid separately against relevant item of Schedule. Dewatering of well for sinking shall not be ordinarily resorted to and shall never be done without specific instruction from the Engineer. Any tendency to deviate from the vertical shift or tilt from true position during sinking shall immediately be investigated and corrected with the help of divers and/or by special methods if required, in consultation with the Engineer or his representative. The services of divers shall be engaged for inspection and removal of obstruction in normal course. The rate for the same is included in item for pneumatic sinking. However, if it is seen that it is not possible to sink the well even by occasional use of divers, well should be either dewatered for manual excavation or services of fully equipped divers shall be engaged for drilling, blasting the boulders etc. For such methods contractor shall be paid for at non-Schedule rates fixed in accordance with the provision of General Conditions of Contract (GCC-2008). TILT AND SHIFT: The permissible tilt in well shall be 1 in 80 and permissible shift (excluding the shift resultant due to tilt) shall be 150 mm in any direction. Every effort shall be made by the Contractor to keep the tilt and shift within the limits specified above. If the permissible limits of tilts and shifts specified above are exceeded. The work will be classed as sub-standard liable to rejection. If wells with tilts and / or shifts beyond permissible limits are accepted by the Engineer any measures required to bring the base pressure and /or steining stresses within safe limits shall be carried out by the Contractor after obtaining approval of the Engineer at his own cost. The cost of any re-designing and strengthening of any other structural component consequent on the acceptance of such a well shall also be borne by the Contractor. USE OF COMPRESSED AIR: When pneumatic sinking is resorted to, the pneumatic sinking plants such as Air Compressors, air shafts, air locks, medical locks, diving apparatus, lighting equipments etc. and all other necessary tools and plants, specialized staff shall be in adequate quantities and in conformity to the relevant IS Code. The work under compressed air shall in every respect comply with the relevant Safety Codes for working in Compressed Air. The plant shall be of an approved type and shall include all apparatus necessary spares etc. which the Engineer may consider necessary for the efficient execution, satisfactory progress of the works ad for the safety for the workmen employed. The safety of the workmen working in compressed air and their welfare shall receive the fullest consideration by the Contractor. The pressure to be adopted during construction shall be the minimum consistent with safety. Compressed air shall be applied as and when necessary in the opinion of the Engineer, for the purpose of clearing obstructions for inspection purpose or for any other purpose. Temporary air tight diaphragms to enable compressed air to be applied to the dredging holes shall be of approved type. The diaphragms shall be maintained in perfect working order and rubbers used for making air tight joints shall be renewed as frequently as in the opinion of the Engineer, may be necessary. An adequate number of spare rubbers shall be kept in stock by the Contractor and
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Page 113 of 124 such spares shall be suitably stored so as to preserve the rubber in a working condition. 5.6 Provisions shall be made on the diaphragms for the connection of all apparatus which may, in the opinion of the Engineer, be necessary for the efficient and safe execution of all compressed air operations. All electric cables, telephone cables etc., which are carried through the diaphragms, shall be of appropriate type specially manufactured for submarine work and fitted properly with the designed water tight glands where the cables pass through the diaphragms. 5.7 The arrangement of the air tight piping shall be such that the main supply of fresh air is delivered directly to the working chamber, but provision shall be made for an auxiliary supply of fresh air to the air lock if considered necessary by the Engineer. Auxiliary air supply apparatus of adequate capacity shall be coupled to the work in such a way as to be immediately available in case of failure of the main supply. 5.8 The Contractor shall provide and maintain a low voltage lighting system for all working in compressed air to the approval of the Engineer. All electrical apparatus for use under water shall be efficiently earthed so as to safe-guard workmen against shocks. 5.9 Provision shall also be made for the removal of water which may collect on the diaphragms. 5.10 The personnel who will fit and secure the air tight diaphragms in place for use in the works shall be qualified divers, fully conversant with the mechanical arrangements and shall be trained in the various operations. 5.11 The length of shifts worked under compressed air, rest periods and times for compression and decompression shall be regulated according to the working pressure and other statutory provisions in force. 6.0 USE OF EXPLOSIVES: Explosives shall not be generally used as an aid for well sinking. However, in cases where explosives are to be used, prior approval of the Engineer shall be obtained. All prevalent laws concerning handling, storing and using of explosives shall be strictly followed. If blasting has been used for setting the well after it has reached the design foundation level normally 24 hours shall be allowed to lapse before the bottom plug is laid. 7.0 7.1 PLUGGING OF WELL To ensure that the level of the top of bottom plug is as shown in approved plan, proper sounding shall be taken at the required number of location and the volume of the concrete to go into the bottom plug shall be calculated and compared with the quantity actually laid. The sump below cutting edge shall be filled up by the same concrete as used for bottom plugging. The concrete for bottom plugging shall be min of a mix M-15 and the same shall be laid by tremie, skip boxes or any other method approved by the Engineer present. METHOD OF MEASUREMENT: For the purpose of payment, the number of bags of cement consumed in the bottom plug shall be counted and recorded by the Engineer or his representative along with contractors representative and with these No. of bags the volume of
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Page 114 of 124 concrete placed shall be calculated and paid for against relevant item of Schedule. SAND FILLING AND TOP/INTERMEDIATE PLUGS: The dredge holes of the wells shall be filled up with clean sand from river bed up to a level as shown on the approved plan and top plugging shall be laid as shown on the plan. A minimum of three days, after the bottom plug has been laid, shall lapse before the sand filling of the dredge hole is permitted unless satisfactory evidence is produced by the contractor that, the bottom plug has set earlier. Payment for sand filling shall be made against relevant item of Schedule and for concreting of top plug shall be also made against item relevant item of Schedule. The well pocket above the sand level will be filled up with clean water as per the approved drawing for which no separate payment will be made. The quoted rates by the tenderer for the work shall include the cost of this item. WELL AND PILE CAP Well and pile caps shall be of reinforced cement concrete with shape and size as per approved drawings The concrete and the reinforcement work shall conform to the requirements laid down under section 3.8 to 3.12. Payment for concreting in well and pile caps shall be made as per relevant item of Schedule. The well and pile caps shall be monolithic with the pier/ shaft/abutment and with the well staining. LOAD TEST FOR PILE FOUNDATION If required by the Railway in exceptional case any one of more piles selected by the Engineer shall be tested by suitably placed approved vertical & lateral loading. The contractor shall be paid separately for load testing vide relevant item of Schedule. However, no extension of time for completion of the work shall be allowed on this account. The contractor shall in all cases of load testing (a) Prepare all necessary calculations and details of arrangement for such load testing, well in time. The magnitude of the test load, mode and method of carrying out the test, the application of kentledges, duration of keeping the test load, the observations to be made during placement of the test loads in position etc. shall be got approved by the Engineer, before commencement of the load testing work. Make all necessary arrangement for the observations, the centering equipments etc. that may be needed for measuring the settlements, deflection etc as required for the test to the entire satisfaction of the Engineer Provide all labour and materials and make all observations during the test.
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Page 115 of 124 rectified by the Contractor at his own cost by remedial measure or replacement as approved by the Engineer. When the tests and the structures have been finally declared to be satisfactory the contractor shall remove all loadings, which might still be on the structure as well as on the surroundings. FENDER:The constructions of fenders for each river pier shall be as per approved drawing. The concrete shall be grade M 30 design Mix and payment for work shall be made as per relevant item of Schedule. Payment for reinforcement works shall be made separately. The space in between pier shaft and fender shall be filled up with sand and asphalt as per approved drawing and payment for the same shall be made as per relevant item of Schedule the contractor may also use any other lighter materials with the approval of the Engineer The method of mixing, heating arrangement and the proportions of different ingredients used as filler shall be as approved by the Engineer. ABUTMENT: The abutment should be constructed as per approved drawings. The abutment shall be of reinforced cement concrete work of grade M-30. The work of the abutment including dirt and return walls, ties, bracings etc. should be completed so as to facilitate construction of approach works, etc. by other agencies as decided by the Engineer. The abutments shall be constructed monolithic with pile cap foundation. PIER SHAFT: Piers shall be of reinforced cement concrete as per approved drawings. The concrete shall be grade M 30 Design Mix. The pier shall be cast monolithic with well cap as well as pier cap. Coarse aggregate to be used in pier shaft shall be of 20 mm down grade and as per Clause 3.6 of Special Specification. PIER CAPS AND ABUTMENT CAP AND FENDERS: Pier caps and abutment caps shall be in R.C.C of grade M-30 as per the approved drawings. PAYMENT: The payment of concrete work for abutment/ pier shaft and caps, fenders and that for the reinforcement work shall be made as per relevant item of Schedule. AESTHETIC REQUIREMENT: The contractor shall make every effort to ensure that all part of the Bridge substructure are of good appearance and aesthetically acceptable. The external surface finish shall be suited to these requirements and be in harmony with nature and depositing of the materials and surroundings. Proper finishing to all chamfers and no sign, surface treatment to exposed surfaces, caulking of gaps and joints, etc. shall have to be done as per the requirements as specified elsewhere and to the satisfaction of the Engineer. TEMPORARY STRUCTURE : The contractor(s) will be required to submit any designs/drawings for approval of the Railway for such temporary structures, which are connected with the permanent work. Signature of tenderer(s) Date_______________
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Page 116 of 124 Chapter - XI East Central Railway Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (Con)North Mahendrughat, Patna- 800004 Special Conditions & Specifications for Piling Work 1.00 1.01 SCOPE OF WORK This specification covers the construction of large diameter cast-in-situ bored piles. This work shall consist of construction of 1200 mm / 1000 mm diameter bored cast-in-situ RCC piles for structures in accordance with the details shown on the drawings and conforming to the requirements of these specifications. Temporary casings may be required to avoid any subsidence of the existing foundations because of release of earth pressure due to boring and/ or caving of the bored holes. These temporary casings will be taken out after concreting of the boreholes. No extra payment shall be admissible on this account. SOIL CHARACTERISTICS: Railways have conducted detail soil investigation at site consisting of boreholes with field SPT tests, laboratory tests on a large number of representative disturbed and undisturbed samples. The results are available with the office of Chief Administrative Officer/ Construction, East Central Railway, Mahendru Ghat, Patna 800 004 and may be viewed with prior appointment with the concerned officer on any working day. However, the Contractor shall acquaint himself fully of the nature of substrata likely to be encountered and quote for the appropriate method and equipment for installing the piles at the proposed site. Any claim on this account will not be acceptable to the Railway later on. The Contractor may carry out some borings, if he considers it necessary, before quoting his price. 3.00 STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS/ CODES OF PRACTICE: All work shall, unless specified otherwise in these specifications, conform to the latest versions of Indian Standard Specifications and Codes of Practice listed in Instructions to Tenderers the Books of Reference. The Contractor shall make available at site one copy of the latest versions of each of the following codes/ specifications at his cost.
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Page 117 of 124 IS:1199 - Indian Standard Specifications for Method of sampling and analysis of concrete. IS:1786 Indian Standard Specifications for Cold Twisted Steel Bars/ TMT for Concrete Reinforcement. IS:2502 -Code of Practice for bending and fixing of Bars for concrete Reinforcement. `IS:2722 -Indian Standard Specifications for Portable Swing weigh Batches for concrete (Single and Double Bucket type) IS:1791 -Specification for Batch type concrete Mixers. IS:2751 -Code of Practice for Welding of Mild Steel Bars used for Reinforced concrete construction. IS:2911 -Code of Practice for Design and Construction of Pile foundations (all parts) IS:4926 -Indian Standard Specifications for ready Mixed concrete. IS:10262 -Concrete Mix Design. IRS Concrete Bridge Codes (with latest A&C Slip). IRS Bridge Rules (with latest A&C Slip). IRS Code of practice for the design of Substructures and Foundations of Bridges (latest revision) In the case of dispute in the interpretation or contradiction in different Clauses of various Codes, the decision of the accepting authority/CAO/CON, East Central Railway shall be final and binding. 4.0 SPECIFICATIONS FOR BORING FOR PILING 4.1 GENERAL: (i) Boring operation shall be done in accordance with provision of IS:2911(Part I / Section 2.) (ii) Boring operation must be done by rotary drilling equipment either using direct mud circulation or reverse mud circulation methods. In case of unstable soil the boring tools used should be such that suction effects are minimized. (iii) During boring operation, disturbed samples shall be taken and properly logged and kept. Arrangement shall be made by Contractor to collect proper samples by suitable equipment during progress of boring. 4.2.1 USE OF BENTONITE: (i) No boring shall be done without the use of a drilling fluid of suitable consistency. The borehole should always be kept full upto the top with drilling fluid during boring and concreting. (ii) The drilling mud such as bentonite suspension shall be maintained at a level sufficiently above the surrounding ground water level to ensure the stability of the strata, which is being penetrated through out the boring process until the pile has been installed. (iii) The Drilling fluid shall always be bentonite suspension in water of suitable consistency and shall be as per specification given in Appendix 'A' of IS: 2911 (Pt. I Sec. 2). (iv) The Bentonite suspension used for piling work shall satisfy to following requirements. a) The liquid limit of bentonite when tested in accordance with IS: 2720 Part V 1965, shall be more than 300% and less than 450%. b) The sand content of the bentonite powder shall not be greater than 7%. c) Bentonite solution should be made by mixing it with fresh water using pumps for circulation. The density should be about 1.12 gm/cc. d) The Marsh viscosity when tested by a Marsh cone should be about 37 seconds.
Page 118 of 124 The swelling Index as measured by the swelled volume after 12 hours in abundant quantity of water shall be at least 2 times its dry volume. f) The pH value of the bentonite shall not be more than 11.5. v) The specific gravity of the bentonite suspension shall be determined at suitable intervals, particularly near the bottom of boring by suitable slurry samplers. Consistency of the bentonite suspension shall be controlled through out the boring as well as concreting operation in order to keep the hole stabilized and to avoid concrete mixing up with the suspension. 4.2.2 USE OF CASING: i) Casing when used shall be made of steel plate not less than 8 mm thick and seam welded for waterproofing. ii) Casing shall be used in all bores upto a depth of 1m below ground level to prevent loose material from collapsing. If the ground is filled up or loose for a depth of more than one meter, the casing shall be used to support the full depth of loose strata. The casing shall also extend outside the ground surface upto a height of 0.5m to prevent surface soil from falling into the pile bore. The temporary casing shall be withdrawn during concreting. iii) If the sides of the bore hole are not stable despite all precautions, a casing shall be used to hold the sides. This casing shall be withdrawn during concreting. In such cases the casing shall always be kept ahead of the boring, during boring operations. iv) If the boring cuts across a fault or fissure in the sub-soil resulting in huge loss of drilling fluid and it is anticipated that concrete will be lost through this fault, if casing is withdrawn during concreting, the casing shall be allowed to stay in position provided that only minimum required length of casing is to be allowed to remain in position. v) In case, it is found during concreting that actual consumption of concrete and cement is abnormally high when compared to theoretical requirements, a casing shall be inserted and allowed to stay as permanent casing. vi) In case boring for piles is done close to existing foundation the bore shall be protected with temporary casing upto appropriate depth to ensure that the adjoining foundations are not endangered/ damaged in any way. 5.0 SPECIAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR REINFORCEMENT IN PILES: Piles shall be reinforced throughout their length. ii) Tack Welding Reinforcement cages for the piles shall be made stiff by tack welding at suitable places to withstand handling without any damage or distortion. iii) Spacer Block for cover: Reinforcement should be supported away from the side of bore shaft for ensuring minimum cover of 50mm by means of spacer blocks. The spacer blocks shall be cylindrical blocks made of precast concrete, 110mm in dia and 30mm height with a hole 10mm dia in the center, through which small length (6" to 9") of 6mm dia will pass and will be tack welded to the main reinforcement of pile. The cage when lowered will roll on these spacer blocks which will rest against the sides of the bore hole. iv) Nominal lap between reinforcement shall be provided as per IS Code 4562000. e) 6.0 6.1 SPECIAL SPECIFICATION FOR CONCRETING: GENERAL: All materials used shall conform to requirements of IS: 456-2000 and the G.C.C.
Page 119 of 124 6.2 FOR PILING: All concreting shall be done as per IS: 2911. All concreting shall be done by Tremie Pipe. The tremie pipe shall be of steel & shall be watertight and shall not be less than 200mm in dia. The tremie concreting shall be done as detailed in IS: 4911. The placement of first charge of concrete in the tremie shall be preceded by placement with a sliding plug pushed down the tube ahead of it or by any other suitable means, so as to prevent mixing of bentonite/ water in the pipe with poured concrete. Before commencing concreting, the bore hole shall be cleared and all spoils at the founding level lifted up and remove by jetting with fresh bentonite solution. Concreting of bore hole shall start immediately after and not more than hour later than the completion of the boring. Once concreting of bore hole is started, the concreting shall not stop till the concreting of the whole pile is completed. The Contractor should keep adequate stand by equipment to ensure that concreting could be done continuously. If the concreting is interrupted for such a length of time that the already poured concrete has set, the pile will be rejected. Tremie pipe shall always be buried in wet concrete at the bottom by about 60 to 100cm. Concrete in piles shall be M-30 and conform to IS: 456-2000.The aggregate to be used for piling shall be graded aggregate as per Table 5 of IS: 383-1970 for better workability. The proportion of fine aggregate and water shall be suitably adjusted to ensure proper workability and slump.The slump shall be 150 mm to 175 mm. 150mm size cubes shall be taken while casting concrete. The concrete in the test cubes shall not be vibrated but lightly rammed to achieve the same degree of compaction as in piles. Number of cubes to be taken shall be as per IS: 456 & IS:1199-1959. The quantity of cement consumed in piling shall be actually measured and certified by the site-in-charge. The quantity of cement for piling shall be as per actual measurement of consumption. BEARING STRATA: The depth of pile shall be taken to the bearing layer as per the approved drawing / as decided by the Engineer based on bore logs available and on visual inspection of samples, recovered during boring. If the load carrying capacity of the pile at a location is found to be less than that assumed in design / mentioned in the drawing, total number of piles will be increased accordingly to take the design load coming on the foundation. SEQUENCE OF PILING: Individual piles & pile groups shall be installed in such a sequence that the adjacent piles already installed are not distributed nor their carrying capacity reduced by subsequent installation operation. The Contractor shall submit the sequence order and programme chart to the Engineer and get his confirmation before starting work. While deciding sequence, care should be taken not to undermine or damage the existing bridge and other foundation. CONTROL OF ALIGNMENT: (PARA 7.1.2 OF IS: 2911 PT. I - SEC 2) Piles shall be installed as accurately as possible as per the designs and drawings. For vertical piles a deviation more than 1.5 percent and for raker piles deviation more than 4 percent shall not be permitted. Piles should not deviate more than 75mm from their designed position. CUT-OFF LEVEL:
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Page 120 of 124 The cut-off level of the pile shall be decided taking a minimum distance of 150 mm for keying of pile in the pile cap. The top of concrete in pile shall be brought above the cut-off level to permit removal of all laitance and weak concrete before capping and to ensure good concrete at the cut-off level for proper load transfer and embedment into the pile cap. When concrete is placed by tremie method, concrete shall be cast to the piling platform level to permit overflow of concrete for visual inspection of to a minimum of one meter above cut-off level. In the circumstances where cut-off level is below ground water level the need to maintain a pressure on the unset concrete equal to or greater than water pressure shall be observed and accordingly length of extra concrete above cut-off level shall be determined and allowed in works. This extra length of pile above cut-off level shall not be considered for payment in the piling rate. 11.0 TRIMMING OF PILE HEADS: Completed piles shall be trimmed to the cut-off levels shown in the drawings or until sound concrete is found to the satisfaction of the Engineer. In the event of trimming being carried below the cut-off level, the pile shall be made up to the correct cut-off level, with concrete of the same quality as used in the piles at the Contractor's expense. Manual chipping shall be permitted after 3 (three) days of pile casting. Pneumatic chipping, if permitted by the Engineer, shall not be started before 7 (seven) days. LENGTHENING OF PILES: Where it is necessary to increase the length of any pile after it has been cast, the head of the pile shall be cut-off to expose the reinforcement for a full bond length of the bars to lap with the new bars. The exposed surface of the concrete shall be hacked to form a key, brushed to remove loose material and covered with 25mm thick cement mortar (1:2 mix) immediately before the new concrete is placed. REMOVAL OF SPOIL: The Contractor shall be responsible for the prompt removal from the site of all spoil due to the boring to places indicated by the Engineer. The cost of such disposal shall be deemed to have been included in the rate of piling. BACK FILLING OF BORINGS: The Contractor shall backfill all the borings between the concrete pile and the surface level after completion of the piling. The cost of backfilling shall be deemed to have been included in the rate of piling. All permanently abandoned bore holes shall be backfilled with selected material / plain concrete (M-10) by the contractor at his own cost so that resistance to lateral forces on neighboring piles are developed. MEASUREMENT: Piles shall be measured from the toe of piles upto the pile cut-off level. PILE TESTS
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Page 121 of 124 There shall be two categories of tests on piles namely, initial tests and routine tests. Initial tests should be carried out on test piles which are not to be incorporated in the work. Routine tests shall be carried out as a check on working piles. The number of initial and routine tests on piles shall be as specified in BOQ/ as directed by Engineer in charge. The methodology of carrying out load tests and of arriving at safe load on piles shall conform to IS: 2911 (Part IV). From among the completed piles, the Engineer at his discretion shall select the piles for testing. The scheme of Load Test on Piles shall be submitted by the contractor and approved by the Engineer-in-charge. Piles shall be tested in the manner as specified below. Application of load: The test should be carried out by applying a series of vertical downward incremental load each increment being of about 20% of design load till design load is reached, and thereafter increment of 10 ton till the test load is reached. Each increment of load shall be maintained for minimum of half an hour up to design load and thereafter for one hour till the test load is reached. Test load shall be maintained for 24 hours. For each increment of load, readings of settlement at every ten minutes shall be taken. The next increment of load shall be applied only when the difference of settlement readings between the last two readings does not exceed 0.02 mm. On application of test load, readings shall be taken at every one-hour. Unloading will be done in following decrements of loads: Test load to design load. Design load to 50% of design load. 50% of design load to 25% of design load. 25% of design load to complete unloading. Each decreased load shall be kept for a minimum of half an hour and readings of rebound taken every ten minutes. The next decrement shall be applied only when the difference in readings between the last two readings is less than 0.02mm. The observation and recordings of settlement and rebound shall be done simultaneously by the contractor and the Engineer's representative. Three copies of all the readings for the test shall be supplied by the contractor to the Engineer-in-Charge. Actual Performa for recording the results shall be proposed by the contractor and approved by the Engineer-in-Charge before the start of the load test. The safe load on single pile for the initial test should be least of the following: Two-thirds of the final load at which the total displacement attains a value of 12mm. 50% of the final load at which the total displacement equal 10% of the pile diameter. In case a pile fails under or during the load test, the Engineer shall select two additional piles in lieu of each of such piles failed and the contractor shall carry out load tests on these piles in the same way as the load tests on the original piles at his own cost. This will repeat in the case of each failure of pile under/ during load test till all piles in group get tested, if any piles fail group will have to be redesigned. Detailed proposal together with a sketch for the load test arrangement shall be furnished by the Contractor to the Engineer-in-Charge for the latter's checking and approval.
Page 122 of 124 The top of the pile head supporting the stool shall be finished smooth and the stool shall be arranged in such a way that it does not tilt when the load is applied or released. Stool used for loading must be rigid and its settlement characteristics are determined before actual transference of load on piles. Jacks used in any particular load test should be of the same capacity and their number shall be limited to two only. They should preferably be connected and operated by one pump. The contractor shall submit certificate, certifying the correctness of the calibrations of the pressure gauges and jack before use. All jacks should be fitted with locking devices. Settlement and rebound shall be recorded by two deflectometers and by other independent means of direct measurement. Deflectometers shall be supported independently and in such a way as to be not deflected by the settlement of the piles. Lateral load test on piles: The test may be carried out by introducing a hydraulic jack with gauge between two piles or piles group under test or the reaction may be suitably obtained otherwise as per clause 7 of IS: 2911 (Part 4) -1985. Detailed proposal together with a sketch for the lateral load test arrangement shall be furnished by the contractor to the Engineer-in-Charge for the latter's checking and approval. In case of any doubt of load carrying capacity of working piles not subjected to routine test or when ordered by the Engineer, the pile should be subjected to tests such as Pile Driving Analyzer which gives an indication of pile capacity in end bearing and the side friction at contractors cost. All piles will be subjected to non-destructive testing by Integrity Testing of concrete in the installed pile. 16.2 NON DESTRUCTIVE INTEGRITY TEST In order to ensure quality of large diameter bored piles it is necessary that piles installed should be subjected to a nondestructive integrity test. This test will be done within a few days of casting of pile concrete and it will detect the flaw in shaft, if any immediately. The piles to be tested by low strain method as per IS-14893-2001. Reporting: A final report for each testing stage shall be presented not later than three working days after completion of that stage. The report shall consist of a printout of the original output as well as a summary table including for every pile tested the depth and the Engineers interpretation regarding its integrity. 17.0 ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA: The piles shall be accepted as satisfactory only when the work has been executed in accordance with this specification to the satisfaction of the Engineer and the standards stated hereinafter. The pile shall not be out of plumb by more than 1.5 percent. The toe of the pile shall be at the approved bearing level in each case. The results of the load tests carried out in accordance with the contract and with the specifications for load testing shall be satisfactory. Result of Integrity Testing shall be satisfactory. DEFECTIVE PILES/ BORE HOLES: Any pile which does not meet the acceptance criteria mentioned in these specifications, shall be termed defective pile and shall be rejected. No payment will be made for rejected pile.
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Page 123 of 124 Rejected pile shall have to be replaced by the Contractor by providing additional piles completely at Contractors cost, with suitable alteration in the design of pile caps. If any borehole is defective and/ or is abandoned, it shall be filled up with lean concrete 1:4:8 at Contractor's cost. 19.0 RECORDING OF DATA: Data Sheet of Appendix 'D' of IS: 2911 - Pt. I. Sec-2 to be followed: The department and the Contractor shall maintain separate registers, signed jointly by both the parties, giving the following information for each pile or any other Performa as agreed between Engineer & Contractor. These data shall be submitted to the Engineer in triplicate, on completion of installation of each pile. (i) Date of completion, pile number and sequence of installation of piles in a group. (ii) Bored depth, concreted depth, empty boring and nature of stratum at founding level. (iii) Pile diameter, details of reinforcement and details of mild steel liner where provided along with stiffener. (iv) Volume of concrete poured, time taken, cement bag consumption, slump of concrete and RL of top of concrete. (v) Method of cleaning bottom of hole at founding level before concreting. (vi) Any other relevant important information. 20.0 PILE CAP Pile caps shall be of reinforced concrete of M-35 grade. A minimum offset of 150 mm shall be provided beyond the outer faces of the outer most piles in the group. A leveling course of minimum 100 mm thickness of M-10 nominal mix concrete shall be provided. The attachment of the pile head to the cap shall be adequate for the transmission of loads and forces. A portion of pile top may be stripped of concrete and the reinforcement anchored into the cap. Manual chipping may be permitted after three days of pile casting, while pneumatic tools for chipping shall not be used before seven days after pile casting. The top of pile after stripping shall project at least 150 mm into the pile cap. A layer of surface reinforcement may be provided with a cover of 25mm to retain the integrity of concrete below the main cap reinforcement which is to be laid 25mm above the pile top. Concreting of the pile shall be brought above cut-off level to permit removal of all laitance and weak concrete before pile cap is laid. This will ensure good concrete at the cut-off level. 20.1 TOLERANCE a) Variation in cross-sectional dimensions b) Variation from vertical c) Variation in the final position of the head in plan d) Variation of level of top piles : : : : +50 mm, -10 mm 1 in 50 50 mm 25 mm
20.2 MEASUREMENT FOR PAYMENT The measurement shall be the length in meters of the pile that remains in the finished structure complete in place i.e. from cut off level to toe of pile limited to that shown in the drawing or ordered by the Engineer. No distinction shall be made for penetrating through hard strata or rock and socketing into rock
Page 124 of 124 Reinforcement in cast-in-situ bored concrete piles shall be measured for payment as per Chapter. For steel liners/ casings shown on the drawings to be permanently left in place, the measurement shall be by weight in tones. For the pile cap, the quantity of concrete shall be measured in cubic meters as per Chapter while reinforcement in pile cap shall be measured in tones as per Chapter. 20.3 Consolidation Grouting of Foundation Rock General The item includes all drilling as directed, the cement grout, and conduct, water loss tests etc. and further secondary and tertiary drilling, grouting, testing for water losses etc. Applicable code The following Indian Standard Codes, unless otherwise herein, shall be applicable. In all cases, the latest revision of the codes shall be referred to. IS: 6066 Recommendation for pressure grouting of rock foundations in river Valley Projects. General Programmed of Grouting: The number and pattern of grout holes (in includes primary, secondary and tertiary holes), spacing and depth of grout holes shall be as directed by the Engineer. The number and spacing of holes, the pressure and proportion of grout mixes to be used for injection will depend upon the extent and nature of joints in foundation rock disclosed as a result of water pressure test and the results of actual grouting operations. If the foundation condition as revealed by such results indicate that grouting to greater depth is necessary the Contractor is required to drill additional number of holes and to a greater depth and grout these holes at relatively higher pressure If on the other hand, the drilling and grouting of primary holes indicate that the number and or the depth of secondary holes could be curtailed, the scope of work would get reduced. Witness: 1. _______________________ 2. _______________________ Signature of Tenderer(s) Date ________________
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