Conditions for adopting force account
List of the situation where you can utilise force account is mentioned below:
- Works are small or in remote locations where mobilisation costs for the contractors would be unreasonably high and they would quote unreasonably high rates.
- Works cannot be carried out without disrupting the progress of on-going operations.
- To bear risks of unavoidable interruptions (a contractor or supplier cannot sometime quantify the losses).
- Emergencies needing proper attention, such as repairs or restoring of railway track washed away by floods to restart rail communication.
- Items of work that cannot be measured, such as dressing of roads, watering of plants and so on.