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Section 02: Quality Assurance and Quality Control
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12: Failure by The Contractor to Meet Acceptable Quality Performance
FAILURE BY THE CONTRACTOR TO MEET ACCEPTABLE QUALITY
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INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................... 2
12.1.1 General
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12.1.2 Penalty for Poor Quality Works
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FAILURE BY THE CONTRACTOR TO MEET ACCEPTABLE
QUALITY PERFORMANCE
12.1
INTRODUCTION
12.1.1
General
Should the Contractor not maintain acceptable quality performance then the Owner or
Engineer may, in addition to any other amounts withheld under the Contract, withhold sum of
money from the Contractor equivalent to the work which has not met the required standards.
The criteria used for determining acceptable performance are as defined the Contract and
the Engineers decision shall be final. The following items shall be taken into consideration
when assessing non-acceptable performance;
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any stop work instructions issued to the Contractor
(b)
any NCR issued to the Contractor
(c)
any adverse comments arising from quality inspections or quality audits
(d)
any adverse formal communication from the Owner or enforcing authorities or
government organisations to the Contractor regarding sub-standard quality
performance.
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Penalty for Poor Quality Works
Further to Clause 12.1.1, should the Contractor not maintain acceptable quality performance
then the Owner or Engineer may impose penalties on the Contractor. A general Set of
Unacceptable performance criterion that may be imposed by the owner or Engineer for poor
quality work is defined in below table. The financial penalties for poor quality work shall be
defined within the Contract.
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Unacceptable performance criteria
Penalty (QR)
Commencement of Work on the Worksite without
an approved Quality Management System and/or
Quality Plans after due date
_____ per day worked
Commencement of Work on the Worksite without
the approved quality staff who are to be appointed
and employed on a fulltime or part-time basis at the
Worksite
_____ per day worked per staff
Commencement of Work without an approved
method statement or Inspection and Test Plan
_____ per day worked
Failure to follow any of the Quality Assurance or
Quality Control measures mentioned in the
approved Quality Management System or QCS or
Contract Documents
_____ per incident
Failure to provide Plant, Materials, Goods and
workmanship as per Specification or provision of
sub-standard Plant, Materials, Goods and
workmanship that do not meet the Specification
requirements (this includes Plant, Materials, Goods
and workmanship that have been sent for testing as
per Specification requirements and fail to meet the
specified criteria)
Failure to notify the Owner of a quality related
incident or failure to provide a quality related incident
report to the Owner in a timely manner
_____ per incident
Failure to provide an accurate monthly quality report
or failure to provide a monthly quality report in a
timely manner
_____ per day of delay
Failure to attend meetings or other events related to
quality issues organised by the Owner or Engineer
_____ per instance
Failure to provide the required information
requested by the Engineer during quality audits
_____ per instance
Failure to conduct quality audits at periods not
exceeding 3 months or as stipulated in the Contract
Documents (whichever the minimum) throughout
the duration of the Work
_____ per instance
_____ per incident
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