Program of Work Required before Prosecuting Public Works.
Section 9
SEC. 9. Program of Work Required before Prosecuting Public Works.—Before prosecuting any public works, the district, city or project engineer concerned shall prepare a program of work including among other things the total cost of materials and labor required, the anticipated duration of the work in men-days, the margin of contingencies, above his estimates if the work is to be undertaken by administration, and in addition, an estimate of what he deems as a reasonable profit for the contractor if the work is to be undertaken by contract. In no case, however, shall this margin of contingencies be more than ten per cent of the cost of the work if undertaken by administration, or more than fifteen per cent if undertaken by contract. He shall, however, be allowed to submit a revised program of work before the completion of the project if, due to unforeseen fluctuation in price of labor and materials or to other such circumstances, it becomes evident that he cannot successfully accomplish his original program. With the exception of projects the estimated cost of which is four thousand pesos or less, under no circumstance shall the district or city engineer start work without first obtaining approval of said program from the Head of the Bureau concerned or his representative not lower in rank than that of a Division Engineer, and no program of work for individual projects requiring site investigation and survey and the preparation of special construction plans based thereon shall be approved unless such plans are made the basis of the program. The Auditor General or his authorized representative shall have access to the program of work or data required in this section.