Joint contracting shall be when the services under a contract are performed by separate contractors belonging to a business grouping.
In case of joint contracting, the tender documents shall specify the conditions under which bidders shall submit bids.
The special administrative clauses shall specify whether the contractors in the business grouping are acting jointly or severally.
Business groupings shall be considered as acting jointly where each of them is bound by the entire contract and must make up for possible failures by partners. One of them must be designated in the special administrative clauses as representative of the business grouping vis-à-vis the Project Owner or the Delegated Project Owner. The joint contractors shall share the amounts of money paid by the Administration into a single account.
Business groupings shall be considered as acting severally where services have been divided into lots and each of the contractors is assigned and committed to a lot or lots. One of the contractors shall be designated in the special administrative clauses as representative who shall be jointly liable with each of the other contractors in the contractual obligations towards the Project Owner or the Delegated Project Owner.
The representative shall represent all the several contractors before the Project Owner or the Delegated Project Owner for the execution of the contract. The Administration shall pay each contractor through his own account.
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