A02.Riprap Supply Contract SOW - Rev 1 - 25MAR2025.pdf

SCOPE OF WORK

REVISED MARCH 25, 2025

SCHEDULE OF PRICES

ITEM

NO.

DESCRIPTION QUANTITY UNIT UNIT PRICE TOTAL AMOUNT

BASE

0001 General Purpose Riprap 25,000 Tons $ $

OPTIONS

0002 Option 1: General Purpose Riprap

15,000

Tons

0003 Option 2: General Purpose Riprap

10,000

0004 Option 3: General Purpose Riprap

5,000

0005 Option 4: General Purpose Riprap

5,000

TOTAL BASE $

TOTAL OPTIONS $

TOTAL BASE + OPTIONS $

1. Description of Work:

Supply and load 25,000 tons of general-purpose riprap with options for an additional 35,000 tons. Riprap will be placed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) personnel and floating plant assets. The contractor will be responsible for delivering and loading riprap onto the deck of USACE barges. The loading of riprap shall take place between River Miles 432 - 454 of the Upper Mississippi River, roughly between Muscatine Iowa and New Boston Illinois.

2. List of Attachments:

Attachment A (ILDOT RR-5 Coarse Alternative Riprap Gradation Curve & Tally Chart)

3. Scope of Work

a. Specifications: A total of 25,000 tons of general-purpose riprap, in accordance with paragraph k, shall be delivered according to the Scope of Work. The Contractor shall ensure riprap is delivered as follows:

b. Minimum rate of delivery – 1,500 tons per 10 hour workday (7:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.); working an 11-3 work schedule (11 days on – 3 days off, Monday through following Thursday).

Base: 25,000 tons of general-purpose riprap.

Option – 1: 15,000 tons general purpose riprap. The Government reserves the right to exercise Option-1 no later than 15 September 2025. The delivery start date is to be NLT two (2) weeks after exercising Option-1.

Option – 2: 10,000 tons general purpose riprap. The Government reserves the right to exercise Option-2 no later than 15 September 2025. The delivery start date is to be NLT two (2) weeks after exercising Option-2.

Option – 3: 5,000 tons general purpose riprap. The Government reserves the right to exercise Option- 3 no later than 15 September 2025. The delivery start date is to be NLT two (2) weeks after exercising Option-3.

Option – 4: 5,000 tons general purpose riprap. The Government reserves the right to exercise Option- 4 no later than 15 September 2025. The delivery start date is to be NLT two (2) weeks after exercising Option-4.

c. Transportation: All offerors must coordinate all required approvals and/or costs associated with necessary agreements, permits etc. required for transportation of rip rap from the quarry to the load sites, whether required by local city municipalities and/or privately owned businesses prior to submission of offer to USACE Rock Island District Contracting Office.

d. All offerors must be acquainted with proposed route from quarry to load site to include road conditions, hazards, and state and federal laws and permits regarding transportation of riprap to the load site.

e. Loading Locations: The loading of riprap shall take place between River Miles 432 - 454 of the Upper

Mississippi River. The Contractor shall provide the USACE Contracting Officer with the proposed loading site and method of loading of barges as a part of bid submission which will be reviewed prior to contract award. Proposed load site may be in Illinois or Iowa. Site must have adequate river depths which will allow access for USACE fleet and allow for safe mooring of government barges. At no time shall the load site selected by the contractor impede or otherwise interfere with the normal navigation of commercial barge traffic.

f. All costs incurred with the deliveries are at the contractor’s expense.

g. Barge Loading: Rock fill will be required to be placed on Government barges by a method that does not allow rock fill to fall greater than four feet onto the barge deck surface. This will minimize damage to Government barges due to rock fill impact. Regardless of the delivery method, rock fill must be uniformly distributed on Government barges to load at approximately 400-700 tons per barge load. Loaded barges must maintain a 2’ minimum walkway around the perimeter to allow deckhands to safely tie off lines on the deck. It will not be acceptable to simply dump rock fill directly on the barge surface without a method of full and even distribution. It is recommended that the Contractor utilize a long reach excavator or material handler to safety load and arrange rock onto barges.

Contractor will provide at least two (2) pieces of heavy equipment (ie. Bulldozers, wheel loaders, etc.) to serve as anchoring points for (1) USACE barge to be loaded at a time if mooring cells or davits are not available at load site. USACE towing vessels will bring and retrieve (1) barge at a time to/from loading site. Equipment should be fully operational and capable of adjusting the position of barges, as needed.

Contractor must provide the bank wires or lines to secure barges.

Specifications of the Government barges are 35 feet wide by 150 feet long. Average draft empty: 2 feet & average draft full: 6 to 7 feet. Load amounts of rock fill per barge may vary between 400 – 700 tons depending on the loading arrangement, placement site water depth, and/or ramp configuration.

The Contractor shall provide the USACE Contracting Officer with the method of securing and loading of barges as a part of bid submission which will be reviewed prior to contract award.

h. Delays: Delays by the Government to ensure a safe work environment may occur due to equipment maintenance, breakdowns, water levels, or any number of river or weather conditions that may arise during the course of deliveries. Additionally, the government may need to temporary halt the receiving of rock in order to conduct channel maintenance. In the event that a delay occurs, the Government Point of Contact (POC) will immediately notify the Contractor and the Contracting Officer (KO) of the cause and the anticipated duration of the delay. The KO will then negotiate an extension to the contract completion date once the delay has been resolved. The POC will notify the Contractor (within 24 hours) when deliveries can resume. Depending on the length of the delay, additional time (days) may be added to the duration of the contract.

i. Delivery start date: Delivery shall be available no later than 05-May-2025. Project start date may vary due to unforeseen delays mentioned above.

j. Delivery completion date: Based on contract award/start date and minimum Rate of Delivery = 1,500 tons/day, the entire Base quantity shall be delivered no later than eight (8) weeks after first delivery.

k. Work Schedule: Contractor will be required to deliver rock following an 11-3 work schedule. The 11-day work week will begin on a Monday where the contractor will begin placing rock onto USACE secured barges at the load site. This first Monday of the 11-day work week will be a travel day for USACE personal. USACE will then begin cycling loaded/unloaded barges the following Tuesday and through the remainder of the 10 working days. The Second Thursday of the work week USACE personal will shut down operations at noon and prepare to travel home for the weekend. One empty barge will be left at the load site for the contractor to load on the Thursday of shutdown.

l. Quality Control: The Contractor Quality Control and the Government POC will verify rock receipts and running totals daily. A once per week update of totals shall be provided by the Contractor to the Contracting Officer and POC, by close of business Wednesday of each week that deliveries are in progress.

m. Riprap Specifications:

i. These specifications cover the furnishing of all material, labor, equipment, and all appurtenant facilities required to furnish, deliver and unload stone materials in conformity with these specifications. The stone shall be furnished “freight on board” (f.o.b.) Government barges.

ii. Riprap stone shall be of a suitable quality to ensure permanence in the structure and in the climate in which it is to be used. It shall be free from cracks, seams, and other defects that would tend to increase unduly its deterioration from natural causes. The inclusion of objectionable quantities of dirt, sand, clay, and rock fines, as determined by the Government POC, will not be permitted. Stone shall be reasonably well graded over the entire range of sizes conforming to the limitations specified to follow and further delineated on the chart included as Attachment A titled (ILDOT RR-5 Coarse Alternative Riprap Gradation Curve & Tally Chart).

Riprap Percent Finer Limits of Stone By Weight (SSD) Weight in Pounds 100 400-250 50 175-90 15 50-15

iii. Neither the breadth nor the thickness of any piece shall be less than one-third of its length. All stone shall be processed to remove fine particles by loading over a vibrating screen with not less than 6 inch bar spacing or by other approved methods and equipment that will result in satisfactory removal of fine particles. No individual piece shall exceed the maximum gradation size by more than ten percent, i.e.

440 pounds, and the total combined weight of all over-sized pieces for each gradation shall not exceed ten percent of the total sample size.

iv. Measurement: All stone for riprap will be measured for payment by weighing on state certified scales.

Scales shall have been certified by the state or calibrated by a company licensed by the state using certified weights, within 30 days prior to start of delivery of riprap. Scale certification documents must be presented to the COR during the first riprap gradation, prior to first riprap delivery.

v. Riprap Sources:

http://www.mvr.usace.army.mil/About/Offices/Engineering-and-Construction/Geotechnical-Branch/ http://www.mvr.usace.army.mil/About/Offices/Engineering-and-Construction/Geotechnical-Branch/

Riprap meeting the requirements of these specifications can be produced from the USACE approved sources listed in the LINK above.

Riprap for stone protection shall be furnished from the above listed sources.

After the award of the contract, the Contractor shall designate in writing only one listed source or combination of listed sources from which it proposes to furnish riprap.

Listing of a source of stone is not to be construed as approval of all material from that source. The right is reserved to reject materials from certain localized areas, zones, strata, or channels, when such materials are unsuitable for riprap as determined by the Contracting Officer or COR.

Materials produced from a listed source shall meet all requirements of these specifications.

vi. Quality Control: The Contractor shall establish and maintain quality control for the stone protection material and its operations to assure compliance with contract requirements and maintain records of its quality control for all operations including but not limited to the following:

Gradation of riprap - To assure compliance with the requirements of paragraph 4.b. (2), the Contractor shall determine the weight of pieces of each gradation of riprap as an approximate percent of the total weight before commencing placement of the riprap.

The government reserves the right to direct the location and select the material for samples to be tested.

A sample ILDOT RR-5 Coarse Alternative Riprap Gradation Curve & Tally Chart is included as Attachment A.

vii. Rock gradation (sample testing) shall be conducted by the contractor in coordination with USACE geologist and COR prior to the first rock delivery. The Contractor shall make as many additional tests under the Contractor's quality control program as are needed to ensure gradation requirements are met.

If materials fail to meet requirements, the Contractor shall adjust its operation and verify with tests that acceptable materials are being produced. Failure to meet requirements will result in removal of materials already in place which the failed test represents. A copy of these records and tests, as well as the records of corrective action taken, shall be furnished to the Government.

4. Security **NOTE: To protect the privacy of the Contractor, all Contractor employees, and all sub-contractor employees, background checks, OPSEC SOPs, E-verify, and I-9 forms shall be submitted with a coversheet stating the contract number (e.g. W912EK-15-C-XXXX), title of project, and the company's point of contact information, in a sealed envelope/container and mail:

Security Office U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rock Island District 1500 Rock Island Drive Rock Island, IL 61201

Security Clause 1.

AT Level 1 Training. All Contractor and sub-contractor employees requiring access to non-public or private Government property must complete Anti-Terrorism (AT) Level 1 Training within 30 calendar days after notice to proceed date. AT Level 1 Training is available at the following website: https://jkodirect.jten.mil/Atlas2/faces/page/login/Login.seam. The required training is under the heading “JS-US007-14: Level 1 Antiterrorism Awareness Training.”

Contractor employees who have a Common Access Card (CAC) may log in with their CAC.

Contractor employees without a CAC shall log into the “Non-CAC users” link and need to complete the training all at once, as no record of training shall be maintained aside from the certificate that is printed upon completion. All AT Level 1 Training certificates must be submitted to the Contracting Officer within 5 calendar days of completion.

Security Clause 2(b).

For Access and General Protection Policy and Procedures. All Contractors and sub-contractor employees shall comply with installation and facility access guidelines and rules as stated herein. Contractor workforce must comply with all personal identity verification requirements as directed by Department of Defense, Department of the Army Headquarters, Rock Island District and/or local policy. In addition to the changes otherwise authorized by the Changes clause of this contract, should the Force Protection Condition (FPCON) at any installation or facility change, the Government may require changes in Contractor security matters or processes.

In support of Rock Island District evaluation of personnel authorized for access to federal facilities, the Contractor shall submit background checks that have been conducted by a bonded third party within the last 6 months of Notice to Proceed date and authorize reports to be provided to the Rock Island District Security and Law Enforcement Office by the third party.

The background check will cover, at a minimum, the ten years covering states the employee has lived in, national criminal records check which includes felony and misdemeanor offenses, Department of Motor Vehicles records, and a national sex offender registry check, submitted 14 days prior to accessing the project site.

Identification Badges: The Contractor shall be responsible for furnishing a photo identification badge/card to each employee prior to the employee's work on-site, and for requiring each employee engaged on the work to display identification. At a minimum, the badge shall have the following items shown, the employee’s picture, employee’s name, and company name working for. The badge will be prominently displayed unless restricted for safety concerns, in which case it will be available for immediate display upon request (carried on person).

https://jkodirect.jten.mil/Atlas2/faces/page/login/Login.seam

As employees are added or deleted from the submitted and approved Access Control List (ACL), this information will be reported immediately to the Contracting Officer (KO). Added employees will not be permitted on-site until requirements of this paragraph are completed, submitted, and approved.

Disqualifying factors include, but are not limited to:

(1) Criminal conduct, in particular violent crime and sex offenders;

(2) Habitual use of intoxicating beverages to excess as evidenced by Driving under the influence or public intoxication records; or

(3) Any illegal activity or other disqualification which makes the individual unfit for service (e.g.

drug trafficking or procurement fraud).

In addition to the submitted background checks, supplemental agency checks may be performed at the discretion of the Rock Island District security personnel. The Contractor agrees to cooperate and ensure that Contractor personnel provide any documentation required to complete these checks. Any person lacking proper identification credentials or deemed a security threat may be denied access to the project. Such action in no way relieves the Contractor from performance of the Contract. The Rock Island District retains the right to deny any Contractor and sub-contractor employee from working on a contract awarded by the Rock Island District based on final background investigation results. All information received as a result of a background check will be handled according to Privacy Act regulation.

In the event that an unexpected change in personnel is required, due to sudden absence of a critical path employee, the Contractor shall immediately contact the Contracting Officer to coordinate obtaining written approval from the Security Office for new/additional personnel to be brought on site prior to background check acceptance. Contractor shall submit Personnel Change Request Form and will receive written authorization from the Security Office prior to bringing new personnel on site, and ensure a background check is sent to the Rock Island District Security Office no later than ten days from written notice of approval. The Rock Island District reserves the right to terminate access of the employee upon completion of the Government’s review of the background check and the Contractor shall be notified immediately of any such Government decision.

In the event of an unforeseen change in work site conditions which may require a contract modification, and the contractor is required to immediately add personnel, a Personnel Change Request Form will be submitted to and approved by the Security Office prior to bringing new personnel on site, and ensure a background check is sent to the Rock Island District Security Office no later than ten days from written notice of approval. The Rock Island District reserves the right to terminate access of the employee upon completion of the Government’s review of the background check and the Contractor shall be notified immediately of any such Government decision.

Subcontractor personnel not expected to be on the worksite for more than 15 days may be allowed on site with the following conditions:

1) Employee will be on site a total of 15 days or less, for the duration of the project.

2) Employee is added to the ACL as a short term employee.

3) Employee is escorted while on site. This is defined as being in the line of sight of an identified contractor employee who has a background check on file with the Rock Island District (as noted on the ACL).

4) Each contractor employee can sponsor only five short term employees at a time.

Foreign National employees: Due to a difference in background check procedures for long term foreign national employees, all such employees must provide a photocopy of their passport to the Rock Island District Security Office NLT 30 days prior to arrival on site. Short term foreign national employees (e.g. specialists with a two week period of performance) may work on site with the following conditions:

1) Foreign national employee will be on site a total of 15 days or less, for the duration of the project.

2) Foreign national employee will comply with E-verify requirements E-verify paragraph).

3) Approved and identified contractor employee shall escort the foreign national employee at ALL times while on site.

4) Each contractor employee can sponsor only one short term foreign national at a time.

Personnel Change Request Form

Contract #_______________ Date___________

We, _____________________, respectfully request to add/replace (circle one) personnel to the jobsite due to the following situation:

Personnel to be conditionally added to the ACL (escorted by):

Background checks (if required for a long term employee) shall be submitted by close of business on (insert proposed date): ________________

(Insert signature block)

Security Clause 15.

Pre-screen candidates using E-Verify Program. The Contractor must pre-screen Candidates using the E-verify Program website (http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify) to meet the established employment eligibility requirements. The Contractor must ensure that the Candidate has two valid forms of Government issued identification prior to enrollment to ensure the correct information is entered into the E-verify system. Documentation of company enrollment in E-verify, via a print screen of the company profile within the E-verify system, must be submitted to the Security Office no later than 3 business days after the initial Notice to Proceed.

*When contracts are with individuals, the individuals will be required to complete a Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification must be given/coordinated with the designated Government representative. This Form will be provided to the Security Office after Notice to Proceed is given.

http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify