【正文】 nt with the bidding documents, the Employer39。s rights or the bidder39。s obligations under the contract。 or (c) whose rectification would affect unfairly the petitive position of other bidders presenting substantially responsive bids. If a bid is not substantially responsive, it will be rejected by the Employer, and may not subsequently be made responsive by correction or withdrawal of the nonconforming deviation or reservation. and Bids determined to be substantially responsive will be Errors checked by the Employer for any arithmetic errors. Errors will be corrected by the Employer as follows:(a) where there is a discrepancy between the amounts in figures and in words, the amount in words will govern。 and(b) where there is a discrepancy between the unit rate and the line item total resulting from multiplying the unit rate by the quantity, the unit rate as quoted will govern, unless in the opinion of the Employer there is an obviously gross misplacement of the decimal point in the unit rate, in which case the line item total as quoted will govern and the unit rate will be corrected. The amount stated in the bid will be adjusted by the Employer in accordance with the above procedure for the correction of errors and, with the concurrence of the bidder, shall be considered as binding upon the bidder. If the bidder does not accept the corrected amount of bid, its bid will be rejected, and the bid security may be forfeited. 27. Evaluation The Employer will evaluate and pare only the bids and Comparison determined to be substantially responsive in accordance of Bids with Clause 25. In evaluating the bids, the Employer will determine for each bid the Evaluated Bid Price by adjusting the Bid Price as follows: a) making any correction for errors pursuant to Clause 26。b) excluding Provisional Sums and the provision, if any, for Contingencies in the Summary Bill of Quantities, but including Daywork, where priced petitively。c) making an appropriate adjustment on sound technical and/or financial grounds for any other quantifiable acceptable variations, deviations or alternative offers。 and d) making an allowance for varying times for pletion offered by bidders, if different from that specified in the Bidding Documents and in the manner decided by the Employer. The Employer reserves the right to accept or reject any variation, deviation, or alternative offer. Variations, deviations, alternative offers, and other factors that are in excess of the requirements of the bidding documents shall not be taken into account in bid evaluation. If the bid, which results in the lowest Evaluated Bid Price, is seriously unbalanced or front loaded in relation to the Engineer39。s estimate of the items of work to be performed under the contract, the Employer may require the bidder to produce detailed price analyses for any or all items of the Bill of Quantities, to demonstrate the internal consistency of those prices with the construction methods and schedule proposed. After evaluation of the price analyses, taking into consideration the schedule of estimated contract payments, the Employer may require that the amount of the performance security set forth in the Appendix to Bid be increased at the expense of the bidder to a level sufficient to protect the Employer against financial loss in the event of default of the successful bidder under the contract.F. Award of Contract28. Award Subject to Clause 29, the Employer will award the contract to the bidder whose bid has been determined to be substantially responsive to the bidding documents and who has offered the lowest Evaluated Bid Price pursuant to Clause 27, provided that such bidder has been determined to be qualified in accordance with the provisions of the bidding documents.29. Employer39。s The Employer reserves the right to accept or reject any Right to Accept any bid, and to annul the bidding process and reject Bid and to Reject all bids, at any time prior to award of contract, without any or all Bids thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder orbidders or any obligation to inform the affected bidder or bidders of the grounds for the Employer39。s action.30. Notification Prior to expiration of the period of bid validity of Award prescribed by the Employer, the Employer will notify the successful bidder in writing that its bid has been accepted. This letter (hereinafter and in the Conditions of Contract called the Letter of Acceptance) shall specify the sum which the Employer will pay the Contractor in consideration of the execution and pletion of the Works and the remedying of any defects therein by the Contractor as prescribed by the contract (hereinafter and in the Conditions of Contract called the Contract Price). The notification of award will constitute the formation of the contract.31. Signing of At the same time that the Employer notifies the successfulAgreement bidder that its bid has been accepted, the Employer will send the bidder the Agreement in the form provided in the bidding documents, incorporating such modification as may be necessary. Within 28 days of receipt of the Agreement, the successful bidder shall sign the Agreement and return it to the Employer, together with the required performance security. Upon fulfillment of SubClause , the Employer willpromptly notify the other bidders that their bids have been unsuccessful and their bid security will be returned as promptly as possible.32. Performance Within 28 days of receipt of the Letter of Acceptance Security from the Employer, the successful bidder shall furnish to the Employer a performance security acceptable to the Employer in the form stipulated in the Bidding Documents. The performance security is to be provided by the successful bidder in the form of a bank guarantee, and shall be i