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COMPENSATION The 300,000 L.F. quantity is an estimate only and is shown solely for the purpose of comparing proposals. The City reserves the right to increase or decrease the amount of any quantity shown without any adjustment in the unit price. 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 400. 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 1600. In such cases the consultant may invoke the hourly rate and charge a four-hour minimum. Hourly rate requests for footage exceeding 1600 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 for video may be applied on the same calendar day only if the total number of billable feet, as designated by a combination of any footage billed for video at the unit rate added to the number of hours billed multiplied by 400 does not exceed 3200. 6. Cleaning will be billed on a per unit basis whether or not video services are compensated with hourly rates. However, the City reserves the right to compensate the contractor at an hourly rate for cleaning by using the unit rate for cleaning and multiplying it by 800. Any contractor requests for hourly -rate compensation must be accompanied by either direct supervision of the cleaning operation by the City or by videotape showing the nature of the extenuating circumstances that necessitated it. Under no circumstances will the contractor be allowed to invoke an hourly rate for cleaning without prior written approval by the City. Hourly rates and unit rates for cleaning may only be applied on the same calendar day only if the total number of billable feet, as designated by a combination of any footage billed for cleaning at the unit rate added to the number of hours billed multiplied by 800 does not exceed 6400. 14