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Dear Gary,

The Engineer is responsible for supervising the construction to be in accordance with design drawings and specifications.

The Operator is the entity which gives the approval for the new contruction as Operational or Not.

Usually, the operator is part of the Owner/Client entity.

Once the Contractor completed his job, and the Engineer approved it, the Operator/ Owner will have to inspect it as fit for operation or not.

With kind regards,

Samer

Dear Gary,

You are correct. The tank can not be fully commissional until it is operational. Since it is a sewage tank, the contractor will not bring sludge and sewage to operate the tank. Hence, it wont be operational until it is connected with the sewage pipelines.

With kind regards,

Samer

Gary,

It would appear to me that "operational" in this context means the new tanks being in use and doing what their meant to be doing - ie, need the new tanks to be up and runing to maintain the capacity of the works.

If that’s consistent with everything else in the documents, (or not in the documents, such as there is no proposed method for maintaining capacity when old tanks are decommissioned without the new ones), then seems like a reasonable interpretation to me.

Is there any other conditions such as "the contractor will maintain a works capacity treatment flow rate of........... at all times", or similar? ie, other conditions that when everything is read together points to the above interpretation.

Or at least allow you to go back and ask the contractor how he will comply if the new tanks aren’t up and running.

Hi Gary

Just a thought - what if a PP member was also part of a tender team.

There are not many such projects under tender this week.

Are you not giving out confidential details?

Best regards

Mike Testro.

Mike,

I don’t think I mentioned anything confidential, but better safe than sorry so I’ve deleted all my previous posts.

Cheers,

G

I won’t mind if my postings on this topic/thread are also erased.

Rafael Davila

Many thanks, Rafael