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• • SECTION 4 - SCOPE 'OF WORK 1..1 INTENT OF PLANS AND SPECIFWATIONS - It is intended that the plans and specifications shall include everything requisite and necessary to the proper and entire completion of the work, notwithstanding that every item necessarily involved by the work is not particularly mentioned; all work when completed is to be delivered to the County in a perfect and undamaged state. The Contractor shall comply with the obvious intent and meaning of these specifications which shall be construed to include all labor and materials, measures and modes of work necessary to complete the work herein specified in a workmanlike manner and to the satisfaction of the Engineer. L.2 CHANGES - The Engineer reserves the right subject to the approval of the Director of Finance and the Mayor, to make such alterations, deviations, additions to or omissions from the plans and specifications, including the right to increase or decrease the quantity of any item or portion of the work or to omit any item or portion of the work as may be deemed by the Engineer to be necessary or advisable and to require such extra work as may be deter- mined by the Engineer to be required for the proper completion or construction of the whole work contemplated. Any such changes will be set forth in a change order which will specify, in addition to the work to be done in connection with the change, adjustment of contract time, if any, and the basis of compensation for such work. All detailed cost breakdowns shall be submitted to the Engineer within ten (10) consecutive working days from the date of such written requests in a format similar to that as shown in Appendix C. A change order will not become effective until approved by the Engineer, Director of Finance and the Mayor Upon receipt of a change order, the Contractor shall proceed with the ordered work. If ordered in writing by the Engineer, the Contractor shall proceed with the work so ordered prior to actual receipt of a change order therefor. (a) Increased or Decreased_Ouantities 1. Unit Price Work - The Engineer reserves and shall have the right to make such changes, from time to time, in the plans the character or quantity of the work as may be considered necessary or desirable to complete fully and acceptably the proposed construction in a satisfactory manner, provided such alterations do not change the total cost of the project, based on the originally estimated quantities and the unit price bid, by more than twenty-five (25) percent, and provided further that such alterations do not change the total cost of any major item, based on the originally estimated quantities and the unit price bid, by more than twenty-five (25) percent. Section 4 Page 13