Petro ATC - North Region

Master Agreement GC829, administered by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, provides comprehensive petroleum contamination site response action services for the state's Petroleum Restoration Program. The contract encompasses a full spectrum of environmental remediation activities addressing approximately 12,000 open discharges of petroleum or petroleum products from stationary petroleum storage systems at approximately 10,000 confirmed contaminated sites eligible for cleanup funding assistance from the Inland Protection Trust Fund. Services are organized into four major phases: site assessment, remedial options and design, remedial action implementation, and site closure. Specific services include site characterization, drilling and boring operations, monitoring well installation and abandonment, sample collection and laboratory analysis, soil excavation and removal, petroleum storage tank removal, in-situ injection, remediation system design and installation, system operation and maintenance, debris and waste disposal, pilot testing, and comprehensive reporting. Compensation is structured on a combination of fee schedules, fixed price, and cost reimbursement bases, with detailed rate schedules governing labor, equipment rental, drilling services, and analytical work, subject to a 6 percent handling fee applied to all cost-reimbursable items.

Universal Solutions, Inc., headquartered in Tampa, Florida, serves as the prime contractor under this indefinite delivery vehicle administered by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The contract was initially executed on February 27, 2014, with a five-year initial term subsequently extended through June 30, 2025, through multiple amendments. The contract operates as an Agency Term Contract (ATC) providing services throughout Florida's North Region with no minimum work guaranteed. Contractor rates are frozen for twenty-four months from the effective date, with annual increase requests thereafter limited to a maximum of 5 percent per year subject to departmental approval. The contract incorporates detailed technical specifications, quality assurance requirements, liquidated damages provisions of 0.5 percent per week for late deliverables, and retainage provisions of up to 25 percent pending satisfactory completion of work assignments. Work is assigned through Task Assignment Notification Forms, Task Assignment Change Order Forms, or MyFloridaMarketPlace purchase orders.