A04_RFQ_SOW.pdf

STATEMENT OF WORK

Shiawassee Kiosk and Trail Interpretative Signs

Part 1 General Information

1. GENERAL: This is a non-personnel services contract to provide entrance sign bases, kiosk bases/signs and trail interpretive posts/signs. The Government shall not exercise any supervision or control over the contract service providers performing the services herein. Such contract service providers shall be accountable solely to the Contractor who, in turn is responsible to the Government.

1.1 Description of Services/Introduction: The contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform the production of kiosk frames, kiosk signs, narrow trail posts and trail signs that go on the posts as defined in this Performance Work Statement except for those items specified as government furnished property and services. The contractor shall perform to the standards in this contract.

1.2 Background: The USFWS – Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge requests design and cost proposal for facility identification sign frame structure kits used to retain identification sign panels. Installation to be done by refuge personnel.

1.3 Objectives: Vendor shall create frames and signs according to the details in this document on size and materials.

1.4 Scope: Print signs and appropriate basses for trails and kiosks. Services include production and shipping. The contractor shall accomplish production and shipping of all the following items:

• (2) Trail posts: 4”x6”x85” posts with 42” HAGL with direct embedment (1-sided) o (2) 4.75”x12”x1/8” sign o (1) 4.75”x18”x1/8” sign o Appropriate, hardware, connectors and stabilizers

• (7) Trail post 6”x6”x85” posts with 42” HAGL with direct embedment (3-sided) o (3) 4.75”x12”x1/8” sign o (1) 4.75”x18”x1/8” sign o Appropriate, hardware, connectors and stabilizers

• (3) Trail post 6”x6”x85” posts with 42” HAGL with direct embedment (4-sided) o (4) 4.75”x12”x1/8” sign o (1) 4.75”x18”x1/8” sign o Appropriate, hardware, connectors and stabilizers

• 2 Post kiosk 48”x36” (2-sided) o Brown Structure with Brown Roof o Includes: Lumber Kit, Baseplates, L-bolts, Brackets, Fasteners, Receiver Panels, L-Bolt Mounting o Template, Installation Instructions.

o HPL Graphic Panels (Production Only - Design by others) o (2) 32x24 x 1/8" HPL Graphic Panels o (2) 32x12 x 1/8" HPL Graphic Panels o (2) 16x36 x 1/8" HPL Graphic Panels o (16) Oval Retainers + Hardware o Wall Mount Assembly (32x24) o (1) 32x24 x 1/8" HPL Graphic Panel (Production Only - Design by others) o (1) 33.5x 25.5 x 3/4" HDPE Receiver Panel o (4) Universal Oval Retainer

• 5 post kiosk o 5-Post Classic Kiosk (Brown Structure with Brown Roof) 4 Viewing Areas

(48x36) Includes:

o Galvanized Steel Baseplates, Brackets and Fasteners, Structural HDPE

Lumber, (4) 49.5” x 37.5” x o HDPE Graphic Receiver Panels (4) 49.5” x 37.5” x 3/8” HDPE Finish Panels, L-Bolt Template, Assembly instructions

• (5) Entrance Sign bases- Brown structure for 4’x8’, 0.08 aluminum signs (4) 1-sided and (1) 2-sided

• Design hours for file set up

Shipping and Freight to: Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge, 6975 Mower Rd, Saginaw, MI 48601

Part 2

GOVERNMENT FURNISHED PROPERTY, EQUIPMENT, AND SERVICES

2. GOVERNMENT FURNISHED ITEMS AND SERVICES:

2.1. Services: The Government will provide sign designs for the kiosk and trails.

2.2 Facilities: The Government will provide designs in a Box portal with link to the vendor.

2.3 Equipment: The Government will provide a jump drive only if the online Box portal for file transfer is not working.

2.4 Materials: The Government will provide links to our handbooks and appropriate policies for this project.

PART 3

CONTRACTOR FURNISHED ITEMS AND SERVICES

3. CONTRACTOR FURNISHED ITEMS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

3.1. Materials: The Contractor shall provide

Sign frame materials:

• Assemblies should be made of structural materials

• No-off gassing or toxic chemical leaching (VOC free) in air or embedded materials.

• Structural materials to be UV stable

• Materials should not require routine maintenance or refinishing

• Frame material that meets or exceeds EPA certification of 93 percent reclaimed HDPE and structural core

Graphic panels:

High Pressure Laminate (HPL) High pressure laminate panels are fabricated in a VOC-free facility. In this process, layers of kraft sheets of phenotic, thermosetting resin-printed graphics are covered with a layer of melamine (front and back) and pressed at high temperature to create a durable, UV, and abrasion-resistant graphic panel.

General configuration:

• Double post assembly, with signs mounted horizontally with optional footer panel below

• Assembly should arrive as a kit form with all components ready to assemble.

• Kit to include all fasteners and metal hardware: baseplates, splines, and brackets

• Metal components to have weather resistant coatings (galvanized or powder coating)

• Sign panels to fit into structural frame with and secured on all four edges

• Structure should accommodate sign panels of multiple thicknesses

Mounting:

• Designs to include two approaches to mounting. This includes baseplate mounting with engineered concrete footing and alternate mounting by direct embedment.

• Three mounting heights (options for each built to size; above grade level options (HAGL) to be: 40”, 52”, and 64” from finished grade to bottom edge of sign frame).

• Easy assembly without field fitting or augmentation

3.2. Equipment. The Contractor shall have frames with a minimal engineered structural performance of 125 mph.

PART 6

APPLICABLE PUBLICATIONS

6. APPLICABLE PUBLICATIONS (CURRENT EDITIONS)

6.1. The Contractor must abide by all applicable regulations, publications, manuals, and local policies and procedures.

The sign frame be designed and manufactured using principals of sustainability. This assumes the sign frame complies with Executive Order 13693: Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Sign Handbook, Signage Policy and Guidance, 2019 https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/policy/files/USFWSSignHandbook2019.pdf