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4.4.2. The surety company shall hold a current certificate of authority as acceptable surety on federal bonds in accordance with the United States Department of Treasury Circular 570, current Revisions. 4.4.3. The City will accept a surety bond from a company with a rating B+ or better. 4.4.4. Failure of the successful Bidder to execute and deliver the Agreement and deliver the required bonds and Insurance Certificates as stipulated in paragraph 4.3 shall be cause for the City to annul the Notice of Award and declare the Bid and any security therefore forfeited. 4.5. Contractor's Pre-Start Representation: Contractor represents that they have familiarized themselves with, and assumes full responsibility for having familiarized themselves with the nature and extent of the Contract Documents, Work, locality, and with all local conditions and federal, State and local laws, ordinances, rules and regulations that may in any manner affect performance of the Work, and represents that they have correlated their study and observations with the requirements of the Contract Documents. Contractor also represents that they have studied all surveys and investigations reports of subsurface and latent physical conditions referred to in the specifications and made such additional surveys and investigations as they deem necessary for the performance of the Work in the Contract Documents and that they have correlated the results of all such data with the requirements of the Contract Documents. 4.6. Commencement of Contract Time: The Contract Time will commence to run on the date stated in the Notice to Proceed. 4.7. Starting the Project: Contractor shall start to perform their obligations under the Contract Documents on the date when the Contract Time commences to run. No Work shall be done at the site prior to the date on which the Contract Time commences to run, except with the written consent of the City. 4.8. Before Starting Contract: Before undertaking each part of the Work, Contractor shall carefully study and compare the Contract Documents and check and verify pertinent figures shown thereon and all applicable field measurements. They shall at once report in writing to City any conflict, error, or discrepancy which they may discover; however, they shall not be liable to City for their failure to discover any conflict, error, or discrepancy in the Specifications. 4.9. Pre-Start Meeting: Within five (5) days after delivery of the executed Agreement by City to Contractor, but before starting the Work at the site, a Pre-Start conference will be held to review the above schedules, and for processing Statement of Services, and to establish a working understanding between the parties as to the Project. Present at the conference will be the City representative and the Contractor. 4.10. Correlation, Interpretation, and Intent of Contract Documents: It is the intent of the Specifications to describe a complete Project to be delivered in accordance with the Contract Documents. The Contract Documents comprise the entire Agreement between the City and the Contractor. They may be altered only by a Modification. The Contract Documents are complementary; what is called for by one is as binding as if called for by all. If Contractor finds a conflict, error or discrepancy in the Contract Documents, they shall call it to the City's attention in writing at once and before proceeding with the Work affected thereby. The various Contract Documents shall be given precedence in case of conflict, error or discrepancy, as follows: Change Orders, Supplemental General Conditions, Agreement Modifications, Addenda, Special Conditions, Instructions to Bidders, General Conditions, and Specifications. If the requirements of other Contract Documents are more stringent than those of the Supplemental General Conditions, the more stringent requirements shall apply. The words "furnish" and PAGE 13 OF 92 BID No. 07-10-04