Attachment 01 S05 - Tech Questions Tracker.xlsx

Table 1

Immediately after the bonds are provided to the Government, the contractor shall immediately start working with the identified COR at the site to commence the VA PIV process for all known contractor personnel that will be working the project. All contractors must have a PIV Card in order to work on site.

Nurse Call: Rauland Responder V

Division 28:

PACS: JCI/Software House iSTAR w/ C-Cure 9000 software.

SSTV: Vicon Valerus (VMS) Fire Alarm: Siemens Desigo

Reference Drawings for tie in locations.

In ICRA areas that require Category B Level 1 or 2, can we use zip-walls or plastic sheeting as containment?

Please provide contact name and phone number for who services the current Nurse Call System,

Please provide contact name and phone number for who services the current Fire Alarm System.

Please provide contact name and phone number for who services the current CCTV System?

Please provide contact name and phone number for who services the current Telecommunications System?

If so please provide the manufacturer and contact name and phone number for who services the current RTLS System?

The Contractor assumes substantial liability for the adequacy and performance of the retaining wall design despite the absence of sufficient design information at the time bids are due. Please clarify if the contractor is required to obtain Errors and Omissions insurance for the design?

Offerors cannot reasonably or accurately estimate the cost of the retaining wall prior to completion and approval of the design, resulting in widely varying assumptions and pricing methodologies. Therefore the lack of a defined design basis undermines the Government's ability to obtain comparable bids and the principles underlying sealed bidding procedures. The solicitation effectively transfers significant design risk to bidders without providing the information necessary to quantify that risk, forcing offerors either to include substantial contingencies or to underprice an unknown scope. Please provide the Government's justification for assigning retaining wall design responsibility to the Contractor while simultaneously requiring firm pricing prior to completion and approval of the design?

Assumed depth of all piers? Design loads for each pier?

Allowable bearing values and geotechnical design criteria? Soil borings showing ground water conditions?

Any information from the Geotechnical Engineer as to whether or not casings will be required?

If this information is not available, please explain how offerors are expected to develop accurate and comparable bid pricing for the drilled bell piers when the primary cost- driving factors have not been defined in the project documents. Assumed depth of all piers? As per the Geotec Report, the minimum embedment of the drilled shaft shall be 3-ft into competent unweathered Yazoo "blue" clay. The approximate elevation to top of competent unweathered Yazoo "blue" clay varies, ranges from about Elev. 312 ft to Elev. 307 ft. Design loads for each pier? the factored vertical (kip), shear (kip) and moment (kip-ft) loads for CP3, CP4, and CP5 are 120, 8,9 and 200,11,35 and 290,13, 50, respectively.

Allowable bearing values and geotechnical design criteria? See Geotec Report. Soil borings showing ground water conditions? See Geotec Report.

Any information from the Geotechnical Engineer as to whether or not casings will be required? See Geotec Report.

(G-006). This is not shown on the Legend on the attached sheet.

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