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EJCDC® E‑560, Agreement between Engineer and Geotechnical Subconsultant for Professional Services, is intended to be used by an engineering firm (“Engineer”) to delegate (subcontract) the land surveying portion of its contractual obligations under a prime agreement with a Project owner to a land surveyor or surveying firm (“Land Surveyor”). The document is best suited to delegation in which the prime agreement between Engineer and Owner is based on EJCDC® E‑500, Agreement between Owner and Engineer for Professional Services, or on one of the other EJCDC Owner-Engineer agreement forms, but E-560 may also be used when the prime agreement is not an EJCDC-based document.

EJCDC® E-560, Agreement Between Engineer and Land Surveyor for Professional Services, 2024 Edition is a comprehensive update of the standard EJCDC professional services subagreement for land surveying services. The document has been substantially reorganized for consistency with EJCDC’s other professional services agreements and has been updated to include additional practice content and user guidance.

E-560 2024 is coordinated with EJCDC® E-500, Agreement Between Owner and Engineer for Professional Services, both in terms of substantive content and structure/organization. To aid the Engineer in managing its subconsultant team and minimize conflicts among the Engineer’s subagreements, E-560 2024 also closely follows EJCDC® E-570, Agreement Between Engineer and Subconsultant for Professional Services, 2020 Edition.

A new Main Agreement Article 9 “Special Land Surveying Provisions” has been created in E-560 to help users more easily address general agreement matters and terms that are unique and specific to the Land Surveyor – Engineer relationship. The “Special Land Surveying Provisions” identifies and modifies the Engineer’s standard subconsultant agreement clauses (from E-570) to apply specifically to the Land Surveyor. Article 9 also can include certain key technical requirements to assure those matters are covered when the parties are using a custom scope attachment rather than EJCDC’s Exhibit A Scope of Services.

In keeping with EJCDC’s other 2020 Series updates, E-560 2024 now uses the term “Subconsultant” rather than “Consultant” for engineering, land surveying and other professional firms retained by the Engineer.