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Question and Answer Document 36C25726Q0544 - STX - Replace Domestic Hot Water Skid

1. What are the site access, staging, and crane placement limitations at the medical campus?

a. Answer: Access will be via Engineering Canopy, there will be no project specific staging areas, and the crane is limited to the medical helicopter pad near the site.

2. Is this project tax exempt?

a. Answer: Yes

3. Are there any known hazardous materials (asbestos, lead, mold) in the work area?

a. Answer: There are no hazardous asbestos, lead or mold related to replacing the hot water skids and pumps

4. Can the VA provide existing as-built drawings for the domestic hot water skids, piping, controls, and BAS integration points?

a. Answer: Please see the attached drawing 14_110_Domestic HW_Drawings_2015Apr21_MEP_4.pdf

5. Can the VA provide the complete manufacturer and model information for the existing skids?

a. Answer: Spirax Sarco S9A-IG10-16

6. Is the contractor required to use the VA's existing controls vendor for integration?

a. Answer: Yes. The Vendor is Entech

7. What Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA) classification will apply to this project?

a. Answer: This will be an IRCA Class 2

8. Who is the controls contractor at the facility?

a. Answer: VA M&O maintains the controls

9. Please confirm whether the scope is correctly described as domestic hot water skid replacement. The RFQ title uses STX - Replace Domestic Hot Water Skid, while the SOW heading says Replace Domestic Hot Work Skids.

a. Answer: A portion of this project is intended to replace three (3) domestic hot water skids type Spirax Sarco S9A-IG10-16

10. Please confirm whether VAAR 852.219-75 should be completed under Services, General Construction, or Special Trade Construction. The solicitation NAICS is 238220 and the work appears to be mechanical/special trade construction, but the Services box is checked in the certification.

a. Answer: It will be under Services

11. Please provide any available drawings, mechanical plans, equipment schedules, controls diagrams, shutdown diagrams, details, or specifications for the existing and replacement domestic hot water skid work.

a. Answer: Please see the attached Drawing 14_110_Domestic HW_Drawings_2015Apr21_MEP.pdf

12. Please identify any required basis-of-design manufacturer, approved equal criteria, submittal review criteria, or minimum feature requirements for the new domestic hot water package skids.

a. Answer: Spirax EasiHeat™ DHW

13. Please confirm required utility shutdown notice periods, allowable shutdown windows, VA coordination requirements, and whether written utility shutdown plans are required before work.

a. Answer: Shutdown period that will impact patient care 2 weeks, Coordination with the COR and VA M&O, Utility shutdown plans is required for energized work.

14. Please provide required BAS integration points, monitoring points, control points, graphics, alarms, trends, naming conventions, network requirements, and whether VA requires use of a specific Andover Controls vendor.

a. Answer: please get with the VA’s Current Vendor Entech

15. Please confirm whether the contractor must replace, modify, or reuse existing electrical feeds, disconnects, breakers, starters, VFDs, conduit, wiring, controls power, or motor controls for the new booster and return pumps and skid controls.

a. Answer: The Contractor will be allowed to reuse existing electrical feeds

16. Please clarify the required one-year maintenance scope, including visit frequency, emergency response requirements, included parts/consumables, reporting requirements, manufacturer maintenance plan requirements, and whether maintenance begins at substantial completion, final acceptance, or after commissioning.

a. Answer: Maintenance period will start after Substantial completion and must follow the manufacture’s recommended maintenance plan for the first year.

17. Please clarify whether each skid must be commissioned and accepted before moving to the next skid, or whether all three skids are commissioned only after final inspection. The SOW appears to contain both requirements.

18. Answer: Each Skid must be commissioned and accepted before moving to the next

19. skid.

20. Please confirm whether domestic water flushing, disinfection, bacteriological testing, temperature verification, legionella-related procedures, or water quality testing are required before placing each skid into service.

a. Answer: Please install equipment base on AWWA standards

21. Please identify the three entry points requiring 6 mil reinforced fire-retardant poly ICRA barriers and provide any project-specific ICRA permit, barrier, negative air, HEPA filtration, or infection control requirements.

a. Answer: The work area will not need ICRA barrier while working in the Pump Room.

22. Please confirm staging, loading dock, parking, elevator, crane/rigging access, after-hours access, material delivery procedures, and removal path for existing skids.

23. Answer: Access to the site is limited to the Engineering Canopy

24. Please clarify the 40-hour training requirement, including required attendees, class size, training schedule, curriculum, documentation, video/recording requirements, and whether training may be split between classroom and hands-on instruction.

a. Answer: All worker on site much have OSHA safety training. Also site specific safety and Infection prevention training must be done at the facility.

25. Will the VA's existing BAS contractor be involved in the integration, or is the awarded contractor solely responsible for all programming, integration, and verification with the Andover Controls system?

a. Answer: The contractor will be required to hire the VA’s preferred control contractor to connect the system into Andover Controls.