answErs 2025/2026
1. Under the current Specifications for Lump Sum Projects, the Project
Administrator will approve and pay the Final Estimate? - ANSWER False
2. Surge protection devices are under? - ANSWER Grounding and lighting
protection, Section 620 of the Specifications.
3. As items in the feild are completed,within 30 days, you will need to have the
supporting documentation available to support the pay item in the? -
ANSWER Plan Summary Boxes
4. Using the current Specifications and the attached Summary Tables, what is
the pay quantity for this steel test pile? ( 60' Authorized pipe length) -
ANSWER 60'
5. The contractor has to request to work during the holiday in order to receive a
Holiday extension if the holiday falls within his normal workweek schedule?
- ANSWER False
6. Determine the pay area (SY) and pay adjustment (SY) for Superpave
Asphalt Base (Pay Item 285) based on the information provided below. The
maximum pay is not to exceed 105%? - ANSWER Planned Qty 40,000
Thickness 6" - two layers 3" each
, spread rate 43.3 x 2.540 x 6= 600lbs SY = 300 LBS/SYper layer
avg weighted Gmm = 2580
Actual Tonnage = 13607.4
Answer = pay area= 40,595 SY Pay Adjustment +595 SY
7. If a contractor does not request to work during a holiday, he automatically
qualifies for Holiday Extension if that holiday falls within a normal
workweek schedule? - ANSWER True
8. Which one of the following resources can be used for determining payment
for conventional contracts? - ANSWER
A)Standard Specifications
B) Basis of Estimates Manual
C) Construction Project Administration Manual
ALL OF THE ABOVE
9. What is the correct way to fill in the Plan Sumary Boxes? - ANSWER A) If
no change, use a red check mark, if there are changes, strike through the plan
quantity and fill out the final quantity.
Earthwork Survey/ Cross Sections Waiver form is used on the following projects? -
ANSWER A) Milling and resurfacing projects where shoulder elevation does not
change.
B) Projects that involve only earthwork around box culvert extensions.
C) Projects that involve restoring eroded sections.