Common use of Initiating a Change Order Enquiry Clause in Contracts

Initiating a Change Order Enquiry. (a) If the Province wishes to propose a Change Order it shall deliver to the Contractor a Change Order Enquiry. The Change Order Enquiry shall describe the proposed Change Order with sufficient detail to enable the Contractor to prepare an Estimate. (b) If the Province would be required by applicable law or interprovincial agreements to require the Contractor to seek invitational tenders or to competitively tender any contract in relation to the proposed Change Order, then the Province may include in the Change Order Enquiry a requirement that the Contractor seek and evaluate invitational tenders or quotations, or seek and evaluate competitive tenders, for the proposed Change Order in preparing the Estimate.