(a) Any Materials and Construction Plant necessary for the Works must be purchased on a Best For Project basis.
(b) If a NOP acquires Materials, it must ensure that:
(1) the benefit of any express warranty attaching to the Materials is assigned to the Project Owner;
(2) the Project Owner obtains unencumbered title to those Materials upon payment for those Materials by the Project Owner through the Reimbursable Cost reimbursement principle set out in clause 16.1; and
(3) it maintains an up to date register of all assets including a register of all express and implied warranties pertaining to those Materials as provided by the relevant supplier or prescribed by a Statutory Requirement.
(c) Any surplus Materials and all Construction Plant that have been paid for by the Project Owner as a Reimbursable Cost must be disposed of at the direction of the Project Owner and the Project Owner is entitled to the proceeds of that disposal and the AOC must be reduced by the sum of the proceeds from that disposal.