Document Summary

This is Amendment No. 7 to DEP Contract No. HW510, an indefinite delivery vehicle contract between the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and MetCalf and Eddy, Inc. The amendment was executed on August 1, 2007, and modifies a master contract originally entered into on April 28, 2003. The contract has been amended seven times through October 2006. This amendment increases the total funding authorization from $8,512,808.00 to $9,842,808.00, representing an increment of $1,330,000.00. The amendment replaces the previous rate schedule (Attachment E-3, Revised Rate Schedule dated 8/2006) with an updated Revised Rate Schedule (Attachment E-4, dated 7/2007).

The contract provides comprehensive environmental services including direct labor for office and field personnel, laboratory analyses for metals and other contaminants, equipment rental and sampling services, vehicle rental, personal protective equipment, and miscellaneous expendables. Direct labor rates for office environmental personnel range from $11.00 to $75.00 per hour depending on classification, while field construction personnel rates range from $11.00 to $75.00 per hour. Laboratory services include primary and secondary analyses for metals, purgeables, extractables, leach testing, and general chemical parameters with rates ranging from $6.00 to $665.00 per analysis. Equipment rental rates vary by item and duration (day, week, or month), and vehicle rental includes automobiles, equipment vans, and trucks at $68.00 to $97.00 per day. Quick turnaround services are available with surcharges of 100% for emergency (24 hours), 50% for 3-day service, and 15% for 1-week service. Indirect rates for office personnel include 133.6% overhead, 37% fringe benefits, 12.5% project management, and 10% completion fee applied to total labor costs.