Additional_Amendment_One_Details.pdf

Amendment One - Additional Detail

AG-2B46-S-16-0014

Special Bid Instructions:

Contractor pre-qualifications: Contractors must demonstrate qualifications to perform the work, as defined in the Contract Documents. The information below shall be submitted in a typewritten format accompanying the bid as scheduled. Failure to meet these qualifications will result in rejection of the bid.

- At least one the Contractor’s on site personnel (Site Superintendent, Foreman, Equipment Operator Consultant) shall have completed a minimum of four (4) weeks training in Natural Stream Restoration, Natural Channel Design, or Fluvial Geomorphology as approved by North Carolina NRCS. Conferences shall not count towards this four weeks.

- At least one of the Contractor’s employees directly involved with the project shall have completed a minimum of six (6) weeks training in Natural Stream Restoration, Natural Channel Design, or Fluvial Geomorphology as approved by North Carolina NRCS. Conferences shall not count towards this six weeks.

- Company must have completed 20,000 linear feet of stream restoration utilizing in-stream natural channel stabilization structures (i.e. cross vanes, j-hooks, log vanes, root wads, bioengineering).

- Contractor must have completed at least one significant stream restoration project exceeding $1,000,000 in contract price.

- Experience with plant materials and transplanted vegetation (i.e. native seed mix, bare root seedlings, live stakes, container and balled burlap trees).

- Contractor shall provide verifiable evidence of staff familiarity with construction of stream channels based on principles of natural channel design.

- Contractor shall have an equipment operator on site at all times with at least 2 years of experience constructing streams and in-streams based on natural channel design principles.

- Contractor shall have an operator on site at all times who has completed at least one project of at least 5,000 linear feet in length.