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I I I The City, through the Owner Representative, will examine the documents and information submitted by the Project Architect and promptly render responses to the Project Architect on issues requiring a decision by the City as Project owner. 2.3 Provide access to and make all necessary provisions for the Project Architect to enter public and private property as required for the Project Architect to perform its services under this Agreement. 2.4 Be responsible for the cost of pnntmg and binding of the initial Requests for Qualifications and for the printing of any additional requests for information from the proposers. 2.5 Bear all costs incidental to this Article. ARTICLE 3 CONSTRUCTION COST 3.1 DEFINITION 3.1.1 The construction cost will be the total cost or estimated cost to the City of all elements of the Project designed or specified by the Project Architect. 3.1.2 The construction cost will include at current market rates, including a reasonable allowance for overhead and profit, the cost of any equipment which has been designed, specified, selected or specially provided for by the Project Architect, except that used materials and equipment will be included as if purchased new for the Project. 3.1.3 Construction cost does not include the compensation of the Project Architect and the Project Architect's consultants, or other costs which are the responsibility of the City as provided in Article 2. 3.2 RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONSTRUCTION COST 3.2.1 Evaluations of the City's Project budget and cost estimates, if any, prepared by the Project Architect, will represent the Project Architect's best judgment as a design professional familiar with the construction industry. 3.2.2 A CCL for this Project will be established by the City, through the Owner Representative, after consulting with the Project Architect. The Project Architect will be permitted to include contingencies for design, bidding and price escalation, to determine what materials, equipment, and types of construction are to be included in the Contract Documents, to make reasonable adjustments in the scope of the Project and to include in the Contract Documents alternate bids to adjust the construction cost to the CCL. The CCL may be increased by the City. 3.2.3 If the guaranteed maximum price submitted by the Contractor exceeds the Project Architect's most recent approved CCL established as a condition of this Agreement, the City will (1) give written approval of an increase in such fixed limit, (2) cooperate in revising the Project 16