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proven ability to satisfactorily perform public works services and landscape maintenance services, to maintain a comparable complex and sophisticated irrigation system, maintain Bermuda turf and complex landscaping to City standards; and alternate and unit prices if requested by the Bid Forms. If the Contract is awarded, the City will issue the Notice of Award and give the successful Proposers a Contract for execution within ninety (90) days after opening of Proposals. The City specifically reserves the right to award the contract to a proposers who is not necessarily the lowest dollars and cents proposers on the basis of the results of these queries and investigation(s). 1.34 Execution of Agreement: At least four counterparts of the Agreement the Performance Bond, the Certificates of Insurance and such other Documents as required by the Contract Documents shall be executed and delivered by Contractor to the City within ten (10) calendar days of receipt of the Notice of Award. 1.35 Forfeiture of Proposal Security, Performance Bond: Within ten (10) calendar days of being notified of the award, Contractor shall furnish an executed agreement and attach a Performance Bond (containing all the provisions of the Performance Bond herein). The Performance Bond shall be in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price guaranteeing to City the completion and performance of the Work covered in such Contract as well as full payment of all suppliers, material man, laborers, or Sub-Contractors employed pursuant to this Project. Each Bond shall be with a Surety company meeting the qualifications of this document. Each Bond shall continue in effect for one and one half years after final completion and acceptance of the Work with the liability equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Sum. The Performance Bond shall be conditioned that Contractor will, upon notification by City, correct any defective or faulty Work or materials which appear within one and one half years after final completion of the Contract. Pursuant to the requirements of Section 255.05(1), Florida Statutes, Contractor shall ensure that the Bond(s) referenced above shall be recorded in the public records of Miami-Dade County and provide City with evidence of such recording. 1.35.1 Each Bond must be executed by a surety company authorized to do business in the State of Florida as a surety, having a resident agent in the State of Florida and having been in business with a record of successful continuous operation for at least five (5) years. 1.35.2 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. 1.35.3 The City will accept a surety bond from a company with a rating B+ or better. 1.35.4 Failure of the successful Proposers to execute and deliver the Agreement and deliver the required bonds PAGE 9 OF 105 PROPOSAL No. 1.36 1.37 1.38 1.39 1.40 1.41 and Insurance Certificates as stipulated in paragraph 4.3 shall be cause for the City to annul the Notice of Award and declare the Proposal and any security therefore forfeited. 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. Commencement of Contract Time: The Contract Time will commence to run on the date stated in the Notice to Proceed. 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. 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. 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. 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.