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Consultant shall be paid the unit price shown in the bid for the amount of work actually completed. In special circumstances, the consultant may be called on to provide emergency video service for a specific problem area or may encounter work that is atypical in nature and requires extra time to complete. In such cases the consultant may elect to invoke an hourly rate for services in lieu of the unit price. The City reserves the right to approve the consultant's request for an hourly rate of compensation and shall base its approval on the following criteria: 1. The hourly rate is designed to allow the consultant fair compensation for work performed that is of an emergency or of an unusual or unexpected nature. Such work would reasonably be expected to consume significantly more time than it would take to complete video in most areas of the City. 2. The hourly rate shall be calculated by taking the unit rate for video and multiplying that rate by a factor of 390. 3. The hourly rate may be invoked without the prior approval of the City when the number of feet specified in a single request for video does not exceed 1560. In such cases the consultant may invoke the hourly rate and charge a four-hour minimum. Hourly rate requests for footage exceeding 1560 or for work requiring more than four hours to complete will be evaluated by the City on a case -by -case basis. 4. Requests for hourly rate compensation based on unexpected conditions must be accompanied by videotape or other evidence showing the nature of the delay or difficulty. Hourly rate compensation will not be granted for routine blockages and obstructions that often interrupt the progress of work during a typical day of videotaping sewer mains. These occurrences are to be included in the unit price for video. 5. Hourly rates and unit rates may not both be applied on the same calendar day. 6. Cleaning will be billed on a per unit basis whether or not video services are compensated with hourly rates. 7. Hourly rates may only be applied during work performed, including actual videotaping of mains and manholes, setting up equipment or traffic control and travel time between video locations within the City. It may not be applied to travel time to the first job location or away from the last job location or for activities unrelated to the videotaping of City sewer mains or manholes. 8. The City reserves the right to invoke hourly compensation in lieu of unit rate compensation whenever it deems necessary. Such requests will be made prior to the commencement of work. 13