009010 Competency of Specialist for Facade.pdf

Robert C Weaver Federal Building, Granite Façade Repairs, Phase 2 Washington, DC Project Number # VDC00213

SECTION 009010 - COMPETENCY OF FAÇADE STONE RESTORATION AND CLEANING

SPECIALIST

PART I-GENERAL

1.1 DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENTS

A. The types of requirements specified in this section relate to GSA's ability to determine the competency of the Subcontractor Specialist for Stone Restoration and Cleaning to perform the specialized work in this contract. This project involves the following specific skills:

1. Cleaning existing stone masonry

2. Removing stone masonry panels from building façade

3. Repair and restoration of stone panels

4. Installation and resetting stone masonry panels

5. Repointing mortar joints

6. Work on historic structures complying with the Secretary of Interior’s Standards for

Treatment of Historic for Treatment of Historic Properties

B. A Subcontractor specialist will be deemed competent and qualified only when the specialist provides the information requested on the Technical Qualifications Data Forms included in this section in sufficient detail and quantity so a determination can be made that the specialist has fulfilled the minimum requirements as stated in the forms.

C. Failure on the part of the General Contractor to provide thoroughly completed Technical Qualifications Data forms and the accompanying photographs requested herein as a submittal will result in rejection and submittal resubmission for approval. Until the submittal is approved on this person, the work cannot proceed.

1.2 RELATED SECTIONS:

A. The following Sections contain requirements that relate to this Section:

1. None

1.3 INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING THE TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS DATA FORMS

AA-DD

A. The Subcontractor performing the specialty work defined in 1.01.A shall meet the competency qualifications defined hereafter on Forms AA through DD, provided in this section of the specifications. Provide sufficient detail to substantiate your qualifications. It is important to follow the format provided.

1. Guidelines for each form follow.

2. Remember: Provide original signature on Form DD.

B. Form AA: Façade Stone Restoration and Cleaning Specialist Background

1. Fill out firm name, address, telephone number, date, authorized official, title and corresponding telephone number. Authorized official must have authority to direct the laborers for the subcontractor.

2. Provide information regarding your plant/facilities and equipment that pertain to your ability to perform this work.

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3. Summarize your firm’s technical skills.

a. Minimum Requirement: must indicate experience performing all of the tasks listed in section 1.1 A. Indicate relevant technical expertise to demonstrate your experience.

4. Provide a narrative describing in your own words how you will proceed through the contract requirements to complete the project.

C. Form BB: Façade Stone Restoration and Cleaning Specialist Examples of Completed Projects

1. Project examples: Provide at least two (2) project examples for each of the listed skills.

See the form for a detailed description of the project requirements, skills, and their qualitative standards.

2. Fill out firm name, project name, project address, and date completed. Describe your work and indicate how your restoration skills were relevant to each project. Give a thorough description of the work performed, explaining the materials and methods used to perform the work in sufficient detail so a determination as to size and complexity can be made.

a. Pay attention to project submission requirements on the form. Projects completed outside the required time frame, or failing to illustrate the skills listed for this contract will be disqualified.

3. Describe the photo views and provide close-up color photographs. .Photos must be provided for each project listed as an example of the firm's work. Use good judgment regarding the proper distances to demonstrate the required skills.

a. Provide photographs of sufficient number and clarity to demonstrate each of the required skills. Project submissions without photographs illustration these specific skills will not be considered.

b. Provide numbered labels, for each photograph, indicating the name of the project, the date the photo was taken, and the work shown in the photo. Mark the image to show the precise location and extent of your work.

c. Coordinate the written data with the photographs. Use corresponding numbers for citations in the project description and the photograph label numbers.

4. References: Fill out the client's name for each project represented, including address, contact person for the client, his/her title, telephone number and address. Clients may be contacted and must provide a satisfactory rating as to quality, schedule and price for each project.

D. Form CC: Façade Stone Restoration and Cleaning Specialist Technicians

For each Technician, provide the following:

1. General Information

a. Name

b. Training (state formal academic training and on-the-job training)

c. Experience record (special commendations, unusual projects involved with)

d. Years with your firm

e. Total years performing this specialty work

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2. Project Information

a. Provide a list of previous projects of similar size and complexity to this project which the individual has worked on for your firm. Include the year(s) work was performed and identify which of the specific types of restoration skills listed on the form were performed on that project.

b. For proposed technicians who did not participate in approved Form BB projects, submit equivalent evidence of comparable, successful experience, citing specific projects and providing, in addition to Form CC, the same documentation requirements as Form BB for project cited.

3. Minimum technicians permitted: For each type of restoration skill listed, you must have at least two technicians found competent to perform the tasks requiring that skill.

a. List all individuals who might be employed under this contract. No other individuals will be allowed to work on the site for this work. Only individuals reviewed and determined to be competent under this competency clause may perform this work on this contract.

E. Form DD: Certification of Façade Stone Restoration and Cleaning Specialist’s Qualifications

1. Provide all of the information and an original signature.

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FORM AA: FAÇADE STONE RESTORATION AND CLEANING SPECIALIST BACKGROUND

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS DATA

(Page 1 of 2)

1. FIRM NAME:___________________________________________________________

FIRM ADDRESS: ________________________________________________________

FIRM TELEPHONE NUMBER: ____________________________________________

AUTHORIZED OFFICIAL: _________________________________________________

(Note: Authorized official must have authority to negotiate and contractually bind the company.)

2. Short narrative describing the firm's location, facilities, and equipment:

3. Summarize your firm’s technical skills relevant to this project:

Minimum Requirement: Indicate that your firm possesses the appropriate experience to perform all of the tasks listed in 1.1.A (cleaning existing facade stone masonry, repair and restoration of existing façade stone masonry, dismantling and resetting existing stone masonry façade panels, repointing mortar joints, and work on Historic Structures).

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FORM AA: STONE RESTORATION AND CLEANING SPECIALIST BACKGROUND

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4. Narrative describing your firm's proposed approach to perform the Stone Masonry Restoration and Cleaning required for this project. Minimum Requirement: must have a plan that meets the

Design-Build Scope of Work.

FORM AA-REVIEW (DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE)

Bldg._________________________ Project Review________________________ No.______

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___Approved ___Not Approved, because ___________________________________________

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FORM BB: FAÇADE STONE RESTORATION AND CLEANING SPECIALIST

EXAMPLES OF COMPLETED PROJECTS

(Page 1 of 4)

DUPLICATE ALL PAGES OF BLANK FORM BB.

SUBMIT A SEPARATE FORM BB FOR EACH COMPLETED PROJECT.

A. Minimum requirements: Projects must satisfy requirements below. Project completion dates must be met. The Restoration Skills Specialist must provide photographs and project descriptions sufficiently detailed to enable the Government to evaluate this project's similarity and the specialist's skills and provide an informed response on the submittal.

B. Project selection

1. General Requirements: for each skills 2-5 below, provide the following information:

a. Two projects that you have completed commendably within the last ten years, at least one completed in the last five years.

b. Projects selected shall be similar in complexity to your work for this contract.

c. Projects selected may have been performed on properties of any age.

2. For Restoration of Stone Façade Panels

a. Demonstrate your workmanship in Restoration of Stone Façade Panels. Each project provided for establishing competency must have demonstrated, through the photographs and description, the following qualitative standards:

(1) Matched texture, gloss and other visual characteristics of existing stone.

(2) Produced no damage to existing stones.

3. For Dismantling and Resetting:

a. Demonstrate your workmanship in Dismantling and Resetting Stone Façade Panels. Each project provided for establishing competency must have demonstrated, through the photographs and description, the following qualitative standards:

(1) Careful removal to salvage existing stone.

(2) No damage to sound adjoining stone.

(3) Installation of new stone supports

(4) Reset stones aligned with existing units.

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FORM BB: STONE RESTORATION AND CLEANING SPECIALIST

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4. For Repointing:

a. Demonstrate your workmanship in Repointing. Each project provided for establishing competency must have demonstrated, through the photographs and description, the following qualitative standards:

(1) Careful removal of existing mortar joint.

(2) No damage to sound adjoining masonry.

(3) Repoint joints to match existing joint material and profile.

C. Projects involving multiple skills: The same project may be submitted to demonstrate your experience in more than one skill only if photographs, descriptions, and the project requirements listed above for each skill are met.

D. Client contacts must provide a satisfactory rating for each project skill with regard to quality, schedule and price.

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1. FIRM AME: ____________________________________________________________

PROJECT NAME: ________________________________________________________

PROJECT ADDRESS: _____________________________________________________

DATE COMPLETED: _____________________________________________________

2. WHICH OF THE SKILL(S) DOES THIS PROJECT DEMONSTRATE?

3. WHICH OF THE QUALITATIVE STANDARDS DOES IT DEMONSTRATE?

4. DESCRIPTION OF MATERIALS AND METHODS USED:

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EXAMPLES OF COMPLETED PROJECTS (page 4 of 4)

DESCRIPTION OF PHOTO VIEW #1:_____________________________________________

DESCRIPTION OF PHOTO VIEW #2:_____________________________________________

DESCRIPTION OF PHOTO VIEW #3:_____________________________________________

DESCRIPTION OF PHOTO VIEW #4:_____________________________________________

CLIENT NAME: _______________________________________________________________

CLIENT ADDRESS: ____________________________________________________________

CONTACT PERSON: ___________________________________________________________

TITLE: ___________________________ TELEPHONE: _______________________________

FORM BB REVIEW (DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE)

Bldg._______________________ Project Review______________________ No.__________

FORM BB SUBMISSION: ___COMPLETE-Project approved ___INCOMPLETE-Resubmit ___REJECTED-See below Completion date-met? ___Yes ___No Historic status? ___Yes ___No ___N/A

Comparable work? ___Yes ___No, because______________________________________________

Successful? ___Yes ___No, because____________________________________________________

Photos provided? ___Yes ___No Photos show required skills? ___Yes ___No

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Specialist needs to submit:

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FORM CC: STONE RESTORATION AND CLEANING SPECIALIST TECHNICIANS

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DUPLICATE ALL PAGES OF BLANK FORM CC.

SUBMIT A SEPARATE FORM CC FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL WHO MIGHT BE EMPLOYED IN THIS

CONTRACT.

ONLY INDIVIDUALS REVIEWED UNDER THIS COMPETENCY CLAUSE MAY PERFORM WORK IN

THIS CONTRACT.

A. Minimum Requirements: Each Façade Stone Restoration-and Cleaning Specialist technician named on Form CC must have performed the same job on the submitted projects as the job they will be performing on the proposed project.

B. Technicians must satisfy the skills and experience requirements defined on Forms BB and CC to perform specialty work in this contract. Any technicians who did not participate in approved Form BB projects must submit equivalent evidence of comparable, successful experience by providing all Form BB documentation on a new Form BB for the projects the individual cites on Form CC.

C. For each of the restoration skills required, you must have at least two technicians found competent in each skill. Therefore, a minimum of two technicians, if they each perform all of the required skills successfully, may be qualified under this competency clause for performance of FAÇADE STONE

RESTORATION AND CLEANING.

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FORM CC: STONE RESTORATION AND CLEANING SPECIALIST TECHNICIANS

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1. TECHNICIAN'S NAME: _____________________________________________________

TRAINING: (cite academic and on-the-job):_______________________________________

EXPERIENCE RECORD: _____________________________________________________

YEARS WITH YOUR FIRM: ____________TOTAL YEARS EXPERIENCE: __________

2. PREVIOUS PROJECTS WORKED ON:

NAME OF PROJECT: ______________________________________________________

DATES YOUR WORK WAS PERFORMED: _____________________________________

TASKS YOU PERFORMED: __________________________________________________

EMPLOYER AND PHONE: ___________________________________________________

NAME OF PROJECT: ______________________________________________________

DATES YOUR WORK WAS PERFORMED: _____________________________________

TASKS YOU PERFORMED: __________________________________________________

EMPLOYER AND PHONE: ___________________________________________________

FORM CC REVIEW (DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE)

Bldg.___________________________ Project Review___________________________ No.________

FORM CC SUBMISSION: ___COMPLETE-Technician-approved ___INCOMPLETE-Resubmit ___REJECTED-poor workmanship/performance ___Technician did not perform specialty work in approved Form BB projects:

Submit Form BB data & photos for _____ projects showing technicians work Other:

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FORM DD: STONE RESTORATION AND CLEANING SPECIALIST

CERTIFICATION OF QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirement: Furnish all information required below, including original signatures.

I. I hereby certify that this firm has performed work of similar size and complexity to the work required for this contract in the following restoration skills specialty category:

II. I hereby certify that this firm has performed the work acknowledged on all the Forms BB submitted under this firm's name, included herewith for the following projects:

1.______________________________________________________________________

2.______________________________________________________________________

3.______________________________________________________________________

4.______________________________________________________________________

5.______________________________________________________________________

III. I hereby certify that the specialist technicians who would perform work on this contract are the same as those listed herein, and that their experience records documented on these forms are accurate and complete. Only technicians listed herein will perform the corresponding specialty work for this contract.

SPECIALTY SUBCONTRACTOR: DISCIPLINE AND NAME OF FIRM

SIGNATURE OF AUTHORIZED OFFICIAL FOR SUBCONTRACTOR DATE

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REVIEWER'S SUMMARY EVALUATION - FORMS AA-DD

STONE RESTORATION AND CLEANING SPECIALIST

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS DATA

SUBMIT THIS PAGE WITH EACH SET OF FORMS AA-DD. A COPY OF THIS SUMMARY

EVALUATION WILL BE SENT TO YOU AFTER YOUR SUBMISSION HAS BEEN REVIEWED.

SUMMARY EVALUATION (DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE)

Bldg.___________________ Project___________________ Contract____________________

SUBMISSION NO.:__________ ___COMPLETE-Specialist approved ___INCOMPLETE-Resubmit ___REJECTED-Project submission indicates not competent in this specialty

FORM AA: Firm info. Complete? ___Yes ___No Submit_____________________________

FORM BB: Project info. Complete? ___Yes ___No

Provide missing data for:

Project ______________________________________________________________________

Project ______________________________________________________________________

Project ______________________________________________________________________

Submit photos for: ___Project 1 ___Project 2 ___Project 3

Submit both forms & photos for _____ more projects

FORM CC: Enough technicians competent? ___Yes ___No Submit_____________________

FORM DD: Original signatures? ___Yes ___No

Other information required_______________________________________________________________

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