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it to the contractor and wait and see.Kelvin, I expect you to take the leadership role. If you e across any hurdle you cannot settle, please immediately inform me and I will sort it out for you.Please immediately work with the contractor to see how the target can be met. If we really don’t have enough time, we have to work through the Chinese New Year without any stoppage. This needs to plan ahead and I expect the whole team to work through the Chinese New Year with the Contractor. For me, I will stay in Foshan with you guys during CNY as well.Barring any new issues, our target is for DLS to plete the binding of the contract and send out to SCG for signing this week.Based on previous experience, SCG will courier back to shanghai for stamping and then return to us for stamping/signing within a week. Meanwhile SCG can prepare the PB in parallel with their bank.Jerry – pls note above target.Cathryn – Pls also get ready for payment and advise if any other documents/process fin will need for the release of the 20m. Thanks.Kelvin – can we have all these contracts and bank guarantee sorted out and sign this week? Please revert. Rgds. StephenPlease find attached the bank guarantee I received on October 29 and find below my ments on it dated November 2.Please be advised that the payment terms under the contract documents for Phase 2 shall be amended to specify the advance payment and the provision of bank guarantee. Also, please note that the type of the bank issuing the guarantee must be approved by Finance.To avoid any ambiguity, please urgently furnish us the bank guarantee on which your ment dated 2010112 for our followup by tomorrow. We have to trace back the details/status of the issue. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.Dear Kelvin,Thanks for your update on the discussion of the proposed contract terms with SCG. In respect of the document to be dated retrospectively, the Letter of Award(LOA) was signed dated 201096 and we have to issue LOA again for signing/chopping by tomorrow. For your information, ments from Caroline and your legal department were incorporated in the revised draft which was forwarded to SCG for view by 201011Pls follow up with SCG directly on the format of PB since MT had mented. For all contract documentation, DLS is to liaise with MC/NSC and MT will provide feedback from our end [yan mei – include ments from legal, finance, and contract dept]I had a meeting with MainCon yesterday 4pm going through the list attached based on DLS remendation and concluded as follow:1. They agreed to accept DLS remendations per the attached list.2. For item 3 on pile length calculation we maintained this is same as phase 1, although they want to have a last look at the definition 3. For item 27 – MT will provide separately a letter to confirm the name of MT site representative, but this need not be included in the contract4. for item 29 – We can confirm the phase 2 temporary power supply is 500KVA In order for the pletion milestone of 10 March 2010 to make sense, they have requested the followings documents be dated retrospectively:a. Letter of Award – be dated on 6 August 2010b. Signing of contract doc – be dated on 10 August 2010Above being the case, please update the PB, the affected contract doc clauses on payments, minor clarification per DLS remendation, and review the ‘retrospective dates’ for finalization by this week.For pleteness, the earlier ments from our legal dept is also included in the mail attached. RegardsKelvin TanCc – Dear Michelle, Amy and Caroline – Due to the urgent nature, appreciate your parallel review and revert with final ments, if any, by EOB tomorrow for QS to finalise the documents.As advised in the below YC’s on 2010114, your office has been chasing on SCG to provide the revised bank guarantee. The content of the bank guarantee had been mented by Amy. SCG should revise the same and reissue for incorporating into the contract document. The issue is following up by YC directly to the relevant parties and our Office is unclear on the latest status. Please clarify if your belowmentioned performance bond is about the same issue?Appreciate if you could update our office on your ment to the contractual terms raised by SCG for our finalization to the Contract TermsWe need to close out on ph 2 main contract signing and 20m finalise performance bond asap by this week. Pls update the PB for MT clearance and main con review in parallel.Amy pls revert your ment asapAs spoken, as YC is transferred back to Singapore, I will follow up on this issue.Pls update the doc per your remendation and revert to us asap (and to contractor separately) for finalization.Caroline – pls revert in parallel should you have any ments. In consideration of facilitating the contractor’s cash flow and protecting our client’s interest, we would propose recuperation of advance payment (RMB 20M) by 10 consecutive installments in 2M each after the pletion of piling works for your consideration.The arrangement was proposed based on the concern as follows: construction period in 570 days (19 months) After pletion of piling (~ 3 months), the cumulative amount of work done was estimated to be 13M (~ 9% of contract sum) and 10% advance payment would be recouped from the next payment. The remaining construction period was 16 months and the advance payment would be all recouped 6 months before the pletion of the whole project.Pls see the ments in below and reflect these in the contract. I am chasing SCG for the revised bank guarantee and will forward you once get it.I refer to DLS below on the recuperation of the advance payment from the contractor. Upon discussion with Edward, our suggestion would be to get the advance payment back from the contractor in equal installations within a fixed time period. Please get DLS to take a look at the con