[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 48, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 48CFR852.236-80]

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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 8--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
Sec. 852.236-80  Subcontracts and work coordination.

    As prescribed in 836.574, insert the following clause:

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              Subcontracts and Work Coordination (APR 1984)

    (a) Nothing contained in this contract shall be construed as 
creating any contractual relationship between any subcontractor and the 
Government. Divisions or sections of specifications are not intended to 
control the contractor in dividing work among subcontractors, or to 
limit work performed by any trade.
    (b) The contractor shall be responsible to the Government for acts 
and omissions of his/her own employees, and of the subcontractors and 
their employees. The contractor shall also be responsible for 
coordination of the work of the trades, subcontractors, and material 
suppliers.
    (c) The Government or its representatives will not undertake to 
settle any differences between the contractor and subcontractors or 
between subcontractors.
    (d) The Government reserves the right to refuse to permit employment 
on the work or require dismissal from the work of any subcontractor who, 
by reason of previous unsatisfactory work on Department of Veterans 
Affairs projects or for any other reason, is considered by the 
contracting officer to be incompetent or otherwise objectionable.

                             (End of clause)

    Alternate I (JUL 2002) For new construction work with complex 
mechanical-electrical work, the following paragraph relating to work 
coordination may be substituted for paragraph (b) of the basic clause:

    (b) The contractor shall be responsible to the Government for acts 
and omissions of his/her own employees, and subcontractors and their 
employees. The contractor shall also be responsible for coordination of 
the work of the trades, subcontractors, and material suppliers. The 
contractor shall, in advance of the work, prepare coordination drawings 
showing the location of openings through slabs, the pipe sleeves and 
hanger inserts, as well as the location and elevation of utility lines, 
including, but not limited to, conveyor systems, pneumatic tubes, ducts, 
and conduits and pipes 2 inches and larger in diameter. These drawings, 
including plans, elevations, and sections as appropriate shall clearly 
show the manner in which the utilities fit into the available space and 
relate to each other and to existing building elements. Drawings shall 
be of appropriate scale to satisfy the previously stated purposes, but 
not smaller than \3/8\-inch scale. Drawings may be composite (with 
distinctive colors for the various trades) or may be separate but fully 
coordinated drawings (such as sepias or photographic paper 
reproducibles) of the same scale. Separate drawings shall depict 
identical building areas or sections and shall be capable of being 
overlaid in any combination. The submitted drawings for a given area of 
the project shall show the work of all trades which will be involved in 
that particular area. Six complete composite drawings or six complete 
sets of separate reproducible drawings shall be received by the 
Government not less than 20 days prior to the scheduled start of the 
work in the area illustrated by the drawings, for the purpose of showing 
the contractor's planned methods of installation. The objectives of such 
drawings are to promote carefully planned work sequence and proper trade 
coordination, in order to assure the expeditious solutions of problems 
and the installation of lines and equipment as contemplated by the 
contract documents while avoiding or minimizing additional costs to the 
contractor and to the Government. In the event the contractor, in 
coordinating the various installations and in planning the method of 
installation, finds a conflict in location or elevation of any of the 
utilities with themselves, with structural items or with other 
construction items, he/she shall bring this conflict to the attention of 
the contracting officer immediately. In doing so, the contractor shall 
explain the proposed method of solving the problem or shall request 
instructions as to how to proceed if adjustments beyond those of usual 
trades coordination are necessary. Utilities installation work will not 
proceed in any area prior to the submission and completion of the 
Government review of the coordinated drawings for that area, nor in any 
area in which conflicts are disclosed by the coordination drawings until 
the conflicts have been corrected to the satisfaction of the contracting 
officer. It is the responsibility of the contractor to submit the 
required drawings in a timely manner consistent with the requirements to 
complete the work covered by this contract within the prescribed 
contract time.

[49 FR 12629, Mar. 29, 1984, as amended at 50 FR 794, Jan. 7, 1985; 67 
FR 49261, July 30, 2002]