Function of the Price Schedule. Clause 53.1 states: “Information in the Price Schedule is not Goods Information”. This confirms that instructions to do work or how it is to be done are not included in the Price Schedule but in the Goods Information. This is further confirmed by Clause 20.1 which states, “The Supplier Provides the Goods and Services in accordance with the Goods Information”. Hence the Supplier does not Provide the Goods and Services in accordance with the Price Schedule. The Price Schedule is only a pricing document.
Function of the Price Schedule. Clause 53.1 states: “Information in the Price Schedule is not Goods Information”. This confirms that instructions to do work or how it is to be done are not included in the Price Schedule but in the Goods Information. This is further confirmed by Clause 20.1 which states, “The Supplier Provides the Goods and Services in accordance with the Goods Information”. Hence the Supplier does not Provide the Goods and Services in accordance with the Price Schedule. The Price Schedule is only a pricing document. Preparing the price schedule Items in the price schedule may have been inserted by the Purchaser and the tendering supplier should insert any additional items which he considers necessary. Whichever party provides the items in the price schedule the total of the Prices is assumed to be fully inclusive of everything necessary to Provide the Goods and Services as described at the time of entering into this contract. It will be assumed that the tendering supplier has • Read Pages 8, 11, 12 and Appendix 5 of the SC3 Guidance Notes before preparing the price schedule; • Included in his Prices and rates for correction of Defects (core clause 43.1) as there is no compensation event for this unless the Defect is due to a Supplier’s risk; • Spread the cost of doing work he chooses not to list as separate items in the price schedule across other Prices and rates in order to fulfil the obligation to Provide the Goods and Services for the tendered total of the Prices; • Understood that there is no adjustment to lump sum prices in the price schedule if the amount, or quantity, of work within that lump sum item later turns out to be different to that which the Supplier estimated at time of tender. The only basis for a change to the Prices is as a result of a compensation event per clause 60.1; • Understood that the Supplier does not have to allow in his Prices and rates for matters that may arise as a result of a compensation event. Format of the price schedule Entries in the first four columns in the price schedule in section C2.2 are made either by the Purchaser or the tendering supplier. If the Supplier is to be paid an amount for the item which is not adjusted if the quantity of work in the item changes, the tendering supplier enters the amount in the Price column only, the Unit, Quantity and Rate columns being left blank. If the Supplier is to be paid an amount for the item which is the rate for the item multiplied by the quantity completed, the tendering Supplier ent...
