Contract Summary

This is Amendment No. 6 to DEP Contract No. HW510, an indefinite delivery vehicle executed between the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and Metcalf & Eddy, Inc. The amendment was executed on November 1, 2005, and modifies a master service agreement originally entered into on April 28, 2003, with subsequent amendments dated June 25, 2003, August 24, 2004, October 8, 2004, and November 17, 2004. The amendment revises the project management rate calculation and updates the rate schedule by replacing the previous Revised Rate Schedule (8/2005) with a new Revised Rate Schedule (9/2006).

The contract provides comprehensive environmental services including direct labor costs for office and construction personnel, laboratory analysis services (primary and secondary analyses), equipment rental and procurement, vehicle rental, personal protective equipment, and miscellaneous field supplies and expendables. Direct labor rates for office personnel range from $11.00 to $75.00 hourly, while construction personnel rates range from $12.00 to $75.00 hourly. Laboratory services include metals analysis, extractables testing, leach testing, and mixed analyte group analysis with fully loaded rates ranging from $6.00 to $865.00 per analysis. Project management is calculated at 12.5% of direct labor costs. The contract incorporates tiered subcontractor handling fees (10% for the first $50,000, 7% for the second $50,000, and 5% for amounts exceeding $100,000) with a $2,500 cap per subcontractor per subtask. Overhead and fringe benefits are applied as multipliers to direct labor costs, with completion fees set at 10% of total labor costs.