Common use of Drawing Requirements Clause in Contracts

Drawing Requirements. 1) Where there is a requirement for the Contractor to undertake CAD work, then this shall be agreed in the task order where the Contractor has compliant CAD capability. 2) If included within a Task Order, all CAD data, created or generated by the Contractor must comply with LU Category 1 Standard S1037 Computer Aided Design (CAD) Data. This requires: • CAD data created by, or supplied to the Employer is in the v8 DGN file format; • the engineering content of the CAD data, is managed within the Employer’s CAD data management system called Bentley Projectwise; • data shall be created using Bentley applications to ensure the integrity of the file Microstation v8i or the version currently in use by the Employer; • all spatial data within the CAD Models is drawn to the London Survey Grid as detailed in LU Standard S1-026 Topographical Surveys and Mapping; and • all CAD files supplied to the Employer is subject to a CAD compliance check based on the mandatory requires set out in S1037 and any non-compliances are rectified by the Contractor before being accepted by the Employer. 3) In accordance with clause 101 of the conditions of contract the Employer owns all drawings, CAD files and associated PDF’s generated from the model through all stages of the contract. The Employer issues all relevant LU CAD Standards to the Contractor. 4) The following guides and resources will be issued as appropriate: • LU Design Guides; and • LU Recourse DGNLIBS: Seed Files, LU Borders, Cells, Uni-Class Level Structure, etc. 5) Any available survey information and existing CAD files are provided by the Employer with the Task Order. 6) The Contractor submits a Drawing Schedule for each work package for acceptance by the Employer within 3 weeks of being issued a Task Order. 7) As a minimum the Contractor provides the following in advance of all design reviews and for the ‘construction’ and ‘as-built’ packages: • Hard Copy Drawings - 1 No. A3 set of colour paper plots; • All CAD Files compliant with the DGN file format (refer to S1-037); • Models; • Composite Models; • Drawing Definitions; • Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) to match all drawings definitions; • Master Document Index (PW Index Sheet). 8) The Contractor ensures compatibility with the following software: • Bentley Microstation v. 08.05.02.55 • Bentley Navigator v. 08.06.00.16 • Bentley Projectwise v. 08.09.03.70 • Bentley Interference v. 08.05.04.13 9) All standard images files are accepted by the Employer .i.e. TIFF, JPEG and Adobe PDF