Common use of Operational Acceptance Tests Clause in Contracts

Operational Acceptance Tests. On completion of the hot commissioning, the Contractor requests the commencement of operational acceptance tests from the Project Manager. The Contractor produces a detailed operational acceptance test procedure in advance for acceptance by the Project Manager. This is shown on the Accepted Programme. The control system is pre-tuned in order to prevent deviation limits of process parameters from exceeding the maximum permissible values defined during the technical clarification stages, and ensure safe operation of Plant. After satisfactory completion of installation and commissioning of the control system in conjunction with the plant, the Contractor demonstrates that the control system successfully performs the following:  Plant operated manually (local and/or remote).  Plant operated on manual with all remote supervisory/monitoring functions in the Tippler Control Room.  Plant operated automatically (start-up, sequential control and shut-down) with all remote supervisory/monitoring functions.  Plant operating on modulating control, responding to a safe and stable state for dynamic changes in the plant.  All individual operating and control functions such as alarms, displays, report generation and historian views perform successfully. The Contractor notifies completion of operational acceptance tests and requests the commencement of optimisation of the Plant and control from the Project Manager.