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3.Upon an Event of Default, the City may invoke the following remedies in addition to those <br />remedies provided under separate provisions of this contract, the right of set-off against <br />any payments due or to become due to the Contractor against the retainage, the right to <br />take over and complete the Work. If the City notifies Contractor that City is invoking its right <br />to complete the Work, all rights that the Contractor has in order under Contractor’s <br />subcontracts are assigned to the City, subject to the City’s right to take assignment of all <br />or only selected subcontracts at the City’s discretion. The sole obligation accepted by the <br />City under such subcontracts is to pay for Work satisfactorily performed after the date of <br />the assignment. In the event a conditional assignment has not been executed, the <br />Contractor shall execute or cause to be executed any assignment, agreement, or other <br />document that may be necessary in the sole opinion of legal counsel to the City’s Board of <br />Public Works to evidence compliance with this provision. The Contractor shall promptly <br />deliver such documents upon the City’s request. In the case of such assignment, unless <br />otherwise agreed in writing, The Contractor remains liability to subcontractors for any <br />payment already involved, and for any claim, suit or cause of action based upon or resulting <br />from any error, omission, negligence or other breach of contract by the Contractor, its <br />officers, employees, or agents arising prior to the date of assignment to the City. <br />XIII.LIQUIDATED DAMAGES <br />A. Prevailing Specifications: 2020, INDOT Standard Specifications Section 108 <br />B. Additions: <br />1.The contractor shall proceed with the work at such rate of progress to ensure full <br />completion within the Contract Time. It is expressly understood and agreed, by and <br />between the Contractor and the Owner, that the Contract Time for completion of the work <br />described herein is a reasonable time, taking into consideration the average climatic and <br />economic conditions and other factors prevailing in the locality of the work, and excludes <br />the time for unavoidable delays which were beyond the control and without the fault of the <br />Contractor. <br />2.If the Contractor shall fail to complete the work within the Contract Time, or extension of <br />time granted by the Owner, then the Contractor will pay to the Owner the amount for <br />liquidated damages a sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each calendar day that the <br />Contractor shall remain in default after the time of completion stipulated in the Contract <br />Documents. <br />3.The Contractor shall not be charged with liquidated damages or any excess cost when the <br />delay in completion of the work is due to the following and the Contractor has promptly <br />given written notice of such delay to the Owner and Engineer/Architect. <br />a.To any preference, priority, or allocation order duly issued by the Owner. <br />b.To unforeseeable causes beyond the control and without the fault or negligence of the <br />Contractor, including but not restricted to acts of God, acts of public enemy, acts of the <br />Owner, acts of another Contractor in the performance of a Contract with the Owner, <br />fires, floods, epidemics, quarantine restrictions, strikes, freight embargoes, and <br />abnormal and unforeseeable weather. <br />4.The Contractor is hereby alerted that failure to submit shop drawings in a timely manner or <br />failure to order materials in a timely manner, such that material manufacturing and delivery <br />to the project site are delayed, will not be considered as unforeseeable causes in the <br />determination of liquidated damages, extension of time granted by the Owner, or any <br />excess cost. <br />Version 7/01/2016 Special Provisions - 5 <br /> <br />