15  General Inspections

15.1  The Service Provider shall ensure that all General Inspection Programmes include (as a minimum) the details (including the date, time and location) of the General Inspections to be undertaken by the Service Provider to all Structures, Bridges and Tunnels in the forthcoming two (2) Contract Years.

15.2  The Service Provider shall carry out all General Inspections in accordance with this Schedule 7, the Highways Structures Code and the General Inspection Programme for the relevant Contract Year.

15.3  No later than four (4) months prior to the commencement of each Contact Year following the first Contract Year, the Service Provider shall submit to the Authority a revised General Inspection Programme pursuant to the Review Procedure and a copy of any risk assessments used in the development of all revised General Inspection Programmes.

15.4  The Service Provider shall carry out a General Inspection on each Structure, Bridge and Tunnel once every two (2) years for the duration of the Contract Period unless a Principal Inspection in respect of such Structure, Bridge and/or Tunnel is due to occur in the same year in accordance with paragraph 16 (Principal Inspections), in which case the Service Provider shall not be obliged to undertake a General Inspection in that year.

15.5  The Service Provider shall ensure that all inspectors carrying out General Inspections pursuant to this paragraph 15 comply with the Highways Structures Code, the guidance set out in CSS Bridge Conditions Indicators Volume 2: Guidance Note on Bridge Inspection Reporting (1) and the Addendum to CSS Bridge Condition Indicator Volume (2) as such documents are amended, updated or replaced from time to time, during the Contract Period.

15.6  The Service Provider shall ensure that all General Inspections undertaken from the commencement of the nineteenth (19th) Contract Year (Year 19) until the Expiry Date shall include an assessment of whether the Structures, Bridges and Tunnels comply with the Expiry Condition Requirements and the Service Provider shall provide to the Authority a written report detailing such assessments.