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Facility Planning Control 1. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO DESIGNERS RESPONSIBILITY FOR DESIGN 1. The designer is responsible for the design of the project. Quality Control of the design and design documentation is the responsibility of the Designer. The Designer is not to rely on or expect Facility Planning Control to review his documentation with the intent of detecting design or technical errors or to verify coordination among the disciplines. Review of the documentation by FPC, if any, will strictly be for compliance with programmatic requirements, design standards, State Building Code requirements and to verify that the Designer is fulfilling the terms of his Contract. If any failure on the part of the Designer to provide quality control for his documents results in additional costs to the Owner, the Designer will be held responsible. 2. The Designer shall provide an interdisciplinary coordination review of all documents. The Designer shall provide documentation that this review has been performed. Marked-up documents from this review or certification from a firm specializing in this work will satisfy this requirement. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS 3. The Designer shall be responsible for taking minutes of all meetings, during design and construction. 4. If at any time the Designer is called upon by the User or the Umbrella Agency to include work, the quality or quantity of which will raise the cost above the A.F.C., the Designer shall notify Facility Planning and Control (the Owner) in writing. 5. This department will not advertise a project for bids until the Construction Document Phase has been satisfactorily completed, in accordance with the Procedure Manual and these instructions. Letters of Approval from designated regulatory agencies are required before advertising for bids. 6. All submissions shall be made to the Owner. Each completed phase shall be made using the Design Phases Transmittal and Certification of Phase Completion Form, a copy of which is