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JOINT VENTURE —A legal association of contractors, limited to three participants, formed for the purpose of bidding and executing a common contract identified in ECMS as Joint Venture Prime and Joint Venture Partner . Prequalification is required of each contractor, as specified in Section 102.01.
JOINT VENTURE PRIME —The lead contractor in a joint venture.
LABORATORY —Testing laboratories of the Department, or any other designated testing laboratories. LOCALIZATION —A localization is a series of mathematical computations that transform World Geodetic System84 coordinates into local grid coordinates. A localization typically consists of a horizontal and a vertical adjustment.
LOCAL TRAFFIC—Vehicular traffic that originates or terminates within the project limits. LOT—An isolated quantity of specified material from a single source, or a measured amount of specified construction, to be produced by the same process.
MANUFACTURER—A firm, company, or individual manufacturing material for the project.
MAJOR ITEM OF WORK —Any I tem having a unit of measure of other than Lump Sum, Call, Dollar, or Predetermined Amount (PDA). MATERIAL —Substances specified for use in the project construction.
MATERIALLY UNBALANCED BID—A bid that generates a reasonable doubt that awarding a contract to the bidder submitting a mathematically unbalanced bid will result in the lowest ultimate cost to the Department.
MATHEMATICALLY UNBALANCED BID—A bid containing lump sum or unit prices, which do not reflect reasonable actual costs plus a reasonable proportionate share of the bidder’s anticipated profit, overhead costs, and other indirect costs. MILESTONE DATE—The date on which a specific portion of physical contract work is to be completed before the Required Completion Date of all contract work.
MULTIPLE DEFICIENCY —Deficiency in more than one characteristic within the same lot.
NOTIC E TO PROCEED DATE— The date, established in writing by the Department, on which work is to begin. ONLINE BID—A bid submitted via the internet using the Department’s Engineering and Construction Management System (ECMS).
PAVEMENT STRUCTURE —The combination of subbase, base course, and surface course placed on a subgrade to support the traffic load and to distribute the load to the roadbed. PAYMENT BOND —The approved form of security, furnished by the Contractor and the Surety, as a guaranty to pay promptly, or cause to be paid promptly, in full, such sums as may be due for all material furnished, labor supplied or performed, rental of equipment used, and services rendered by public utilities in, or in connection with, the work under contract. PennDOT’ s HOMEPAGE —http://www.penn dot.pa.gov
PERFORMANCE BOND— The approved form of security,