AMENDMENT 2.pdf

SAP

State of South Carolina

Invitation for Bid

AMENDMENT

Solicitation:

Date Issued:

Procurement Officer:

Phone:

E-Mail Address:

5400021667 08/24/2021

KELLY COBIAN

803.898.3483 cobiankl@dhec.sc.gov

DESCRIPTION: High Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC) Assessment Investigations at Underground Storage Tank Facilities USING GOVERNMENTAL UNIT: SC Department of Health & Environmental Control

SUBMIT YOUR OFFER ON-LINE AT THE FOLLOWING URL: http://www.procurement.sc.gov SUBMIT OFFER BY (Opening Date/Time): 08/24/2021 2:30 PM ET 08/31/2021 2:30 PM (See "Deadline For Submission Of Offer" provision) QUESTIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY: 08/05/2021 5:00 PM ET The time for questions has passed (See "Questions From Offerors" provision) NUMBER OF COPIES TO BE SUBMITTED: 1 (online preferred) CONFERENCE TYPE: Non- Mandatory Pre-Bid

DATE & TIME: 08/05/2021 10:00:00 AM ET

(As appropriate, see "Conferences - Pre-Bid/Proposal" & "Site Visit" provisions)

LOCATION: Via Teleconference- Email Kelly Cobian to request call-in information, no later than Monday 08/02/2021, 4:00 PM ET cobiankl@dhec.sc.gov

AWARD &

AMENDMENTS

Award will be posted on 09/01/2021 09/10/2021 The award, this solicitation, any amendments, and any related notices will be posted at the following web address: http://www.procurement.sc.gov

You must submit a signed copy of this form with Your Offer. By signing, You agree to be bound by the terms of the Solicitation. You agree to hold Your Offer open for a minimum of thirty (30) calendar days after the Opening Date. (See "Signing Your Offer" provision.)

NAME OF OFFEROR

(full legal name of business submitting the offer)

Any award issued will be issued to, and the contract will be formed with, the entity identified as the Offeror. The entity named as the offeror must be a single and distinct legal entity. Do not use the name of a branch office or a division of a larger entity if the branch or division is not a separate legal entity, i.e., a separate corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, etc.

AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE

(Person must be authorized to submit binding offer to contract on behalf of Offeror.)

DATE SIGNED

TITLE

(business title of person signing above)

STATE VENDOR NO.

(Register to Obtain S.C. Vendor No. at www.procurement.sc.gov )

PRINTED NAME

(printed name of person signing above)

STATE OF INCORPORATION

(If you are a corporation, identify the state of incorporation.)

OFFEROR'S TYPE OF ENTITY: (Check one) (See "Signing Your Offer" provision.)

___ Sole Proprietorship ___ Partnership ___ Other_____________________________

___ Corporate entity (not tax-exempt) ___ Corporation (tax-exempt) ___ Government entity (federal, state, or local)

COVER PAGE - ON-LINE ONLY (MAR. 2015)

mailto:cobiankl@dhec.sc.gov http://www.procurement.sc.gov/ mailto:cobiankl@dhec.sc.gov http://www.procurement.sc.gov/ http://www.procurement.sc.gov/

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(Return Page Two with Your Offer)

HOME OFFICE ADDRESS (Address for offeror's home office / principal place of business)

NOTICE ADDRESS (Address to which all procurement and contract related notices should be sent.) (See "Notice" clause)

_________________________________________________ Area Code - Number - Extension Facsimile

_________________________________________________ E-mail Address

PAYMENT ADDRESS (Address to which payments will be sent.)

(See "Payment" clause)

____Payment Address same as Home Office Address ____Payment Address same as Notice Address (check only one)

ORDER ADDRESS (Address to which purchase orders will be sent) (See "Purchase Orders and "Contract Documents" clauses)

____Order Address same as Home Office Address ____Order Address same as Notice Address (check only one)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF AMENDMENTS

Offerors acknowledges receipt of amendments by indicating amendment number and its date of issue. (See "Amendments to Solicitation" Provision) Amendment No. Amendment Issue

Date Amendment No. Amendment Issue

Date Amendment No. Amendment Issue

Date Amendment No. Amendment Issue

Date

DISCOUNT FOR

PROMPT PAYMENT

(See "Discount for Prompt

Payment" clause)

10 Calendar Days (%) 20 Calendar Days (%) 30 Calendar Days (%) _____Calendar Days (%)

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR OFFERORS SUBMITTING BIDS ON LINE

All Offerors desiring to respond to this solicitation should register and submit your response online. To respond online, Offeror must follow the new South Carolina Enterprise Information System (SCEIS) vendor registration instructions found at the South Carolina Procurement Information Center website address of: https://procurement.sc.gov/. If Offeror is registered in the old procurement system, Offerors must register or update their information in the new SCEIS system. Once the registration process is complete, the system will generate a SCEIS vendor user ID and password. The Offeror must keep this information current, or the Offeror will not be able to submit future bids.

Offerors will need to follow these instructions carefully when responding to the solicitation online.

1. The original solicitation response should be submitted online, and it will be the official response.

2. All Offerors must attach all additional requested documents to their response in the online system. These documents can be attached under the “Notes and Attachments” tab of the online solicitation either on the main page or under the necessary line item.

OFFERORS ENCOUNTERING REGISTRATION ISSUES OR IS NEEDING ASSISTANCE IN SUBMITTNG AN

ONLINE BID SHOULD CONTACT:

SCEIS Help Desk (803) 896-0001 Select Option 1 then Option 2

Monday – Friday 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM ET

Offeror instructions can be found at:

https://procurement.sc.gov/vendor/submitting-offers

NOTICE

• To submit bids vendors must use Internet Explorer 8, 9 or 10, which is compatible with SAP. Other browsers such as Internet Explorer 11, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox will not function properly and may prohibit bid submissions.

• It will be the responsibility of each bidder to ensure that their response was submitted properly. The Response Status must indicate 'Submitted'. If the response is in a 'HELD' or 'SAVED' status, you MUST go back in the system and submit the response before it can be 'ACCEPTED' by the State.

• Bidders are encouraged to review the 'Simulation for Bid Creation' before trying to submit their response.

• Electronic bid submission (SRM Login) – https://vendorportal.sc.gov/irj/portal

• Submitting Confidential Data - https://procurement.sc.gov/legal/general-info

INSTRUCTIONS FOR OFFERORS SUBMITTING HARD COPY BIDS

Mailing Address: Opening/Physical Address:

SC DHEC – Division of Procurement Services SCDHEC – Division of Procurement Services Bureau of Business Management Bureau of Business Management Columbia Mills Building Columbia Mills Building – 4th Floor 301 Gervais Street 301 Gervais Street Columbia, S.C. 29201 Columbia, S.C. 29201 See Section II.A. – Public Opening Information – DHEC Clause

1. Offerors shall submit their bid in a sealed package.

2. The solicitation number and opening date must appear on the package exterior

3. Offerors shall submit one (1) copy.

PLEASE NOTE THAT IF TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE OBJECTED OR QUALIFIED OR OFFEROR

INCLUDES ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS TO BE CONSIDERED, THE OFFER WILL BE

DEEMED NON-RESPONSIVE AND WILL BE ELIMINATED FROM FURTHER CONSIDERATION.

IF YOU QUALIFY YOUR OFFER WITH A STATEMENT SUCH AS, “THIS IS NOT AN OFFER”, THE OFFER

WILL BE DEEMED “NON-RESPONSIVE” AND REMOVED FROM FURTHER CONSIDERATION.

https://procurement.sc.gov/ https://procurement.sc.gov/vendor/submitting-offers https://vendorportal.sc.gov/irj/portal https://procurement.sc.gov/legal/general-info

OFFEROR BID SUBMISSION VALIDATION

After submitting an online response to a solicitation, Offerors may validate their submission with the following steps:

STEP 1: Go back to the initial ‘RFx and Auctions’ screen

STEP 2: Select the ‘Refresh’ button to update the screen.

STEP 3: Make sure the RFx you responded to, has your specific bid response number ‘55xxxxxxxx’ displayed in the Response Number column and the Response Status column has a status of ‘Submitted’, before you log off.

NOTE: You also have the ability to print out a copy of your submission by selecting the ‘Print Preview’ button after your offer has been submitted.

AMENDMENT TWO (2)

Solicitation No. 5400021667

DESCRIPTION: High Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC) Assessment Investigations at Underground Storage Tank Facilities

AMENDMENTS TO SOLICITATION (JAN 2004)

(a) The Solicitation may be amended at any time prior to opening. All actual and prospective Offerors should monitor the following web site for the issuance of Amendments: www.procurement.sc.gov (b) Offerors shall acknowledge receipt of any amendment to this solicitation (1) by signing and returning the amendment, (2) by identifying the amendment number and date in the space provided for this purpose on Page Two, (3) by letter, or

(4) by submitting a bid that indicates in some way that the bidder received the amendment. (c) If this solicitation is amended, then all terms and conditions which are not modified remain unchanged. [02-2A005-1]

QUESTIONS FROM OFFERORS – AMENDMENT (JUN 2017)

THE SOLICITATION IS AMENDED AS PROVIDED HEREIN. INFORMATION OR CHANGES

RESULTING FROM QUESTIONS WILL BE SHOWN IN A QUESTION-AND-ANSWER FORMAT. ALL

QUESTIONS RECEIVED HAVE BEEN REPRINTED BELOW. THE “STATE’S RESPONSE” SHOULD BE

READ WITHOUT REFERENCE TO THE QUESTIONS. THE QUESTIONS ARE INCLUDED SOLELY TO

PROVIDE A CROSS-REFERENCE TO THE POTENTIAL OFFEROR THAT SUBMITTED THE QUESTION.

QUESTIONS DO NOT FORM A PART OF THE CONTRACT; THE “STATE’S RESPONSE” DOES. ANY

RESTATEMENT OF PART OR ALL OF AN EXISTING PROVISION OF THE SOLICITATION IN AN

ANSWER DOES NOT MODIFY THE ORIGINAL PROVISION EXCEPT AS FOLLOWS:

UNDERLINE TEXT IS ADDED TO THE ORIGINAL PROVISION, STRICKEN TEXT IS DELETED. [02-2A097- 1]

The following are changes to the Scope of Work, Section III, of the original solicitation. Due to the late nature of this Amendment, if appropriate, Offerors are cautioned to modify current bids to reflect the changes. The bidding period has been extended until bid opening, which will now take place on 8/31/2021 at 2:30 PM, to accommodate any changes Offerors may wish to make. After the time of bid opening, no changes will be allowed or accepted.

CHANGES

Item E. Soil Borings (hand auger)*: This rate is not for the advancement of HRSC technologies. For the evaluation of contamination via collection of soil samples and groundwater samples the cost for analysis will be under the "Laboratory Analysis" items included in this Solicitation. For the purposes of this contract, soil and groundwater samples collected for verification points, as described in Solicitation Section III.3.4.G.2, must be sent to for laboratory analysis; meaning analysis in the field is not sufficient for this rate. This rate is on a per foot of final boring or screening point depth basis. The per foot screening rate shall include all personnel costs, equipment and materials associated with the advancement of temporary borings/wells in accordance with the SC Well Standards and Regulations (R.61-71) by using a hand auger, cost of determining the depth to water (according to Solicitation section III.3.4.G.3), collection and analyses of samples for soil, water, vapor, or gas, completion of geologists logs and DHEC Form 1903, and abandonment of the field screening points under the direct supervision of a South Carolina Licensed Well Driller. If the registered professional supervising the screening uses multiple methods or technologies, then a single cost per foot will be charged regardless of the number of method(s) or technologies employed. The selected technology must be identified in the ACQAP and further identified in the SSWP. A cost for each screening method and use of a down-hole camera will be provided in the “Assessment Component Competitive Pricing Proposal” in Section VIII., BIDDING SCHEDULE/PRICE- BUSINESS PROPOSAL. No separate cost for abandonment will be allowed. One personnel mobilization to collect samples for verification (soil, water, etc.) may be allowed provided it is conducted independently of other components and verification requires sample collection.

Item F. Soil Borings (requiring equipment, push technology, etc) or Field Screening (including sample collection water sampling and analysis) * 1. Standard: This rate is not for the advancement of HRSC technologies nor the collection of continuous soil coring samples. For the evaluation of contamination via collection of soil samples and groundwater samples the cost for analysis will be under the "Laboratory Analysis" items included in this Solicitation. For the purposes of this contract, soil and groundwater samples collected for verification points, as described in Solicitation Section III.3.4.G.2, must be sent to for laboratory analysis; meaning analysis in the field is not sufficient for this rate. The per foot screening rate shall include all personnel costs, equipment and materials associated with the advancement of temporary borings/wells in accordance with the SC Well Standards and Regulations (R.61-71), cost of determining the depth to water (according to Solicitation section III.3.4.G.3), collection and analyses of samples for soil, water, vapor, or gas, completion of geologists logs and DHEC Form 1903, and abandonment of the field screening points under the direct supervision of a South Carolina Licensed Well Driller. If the registered professional supervising the screening uses multiple methods or technologies, then a single cost per foot will be charged regardless of the number of method(s) or technologies employed. The selected technology must be identified in the ACQAP and further identified in the SSWP. A cost for each screening method and use of a down-hole camera will be provided in the “Assessment Component Competitive Pricing Proposal” in Section VIII., BIDDING SCHEDULE/PRICE- BUSINESS PROPOSAL. No separate cost for abandonment will be allowed. One personnel mobilization to collect samples for verification (soil, water, etc.) may be allowed provided it is conducted independently of other components and verification requires sample collection.

Item F. Soil Borings (requiring equipment, push technology, etc) or Field Screening (including water sampling and analysis sample collection) 1-R Rock Coring: includes all personnel, equipment, and material costs associated with the advancement of temporary borings/wells to collect oriented cores that requires rock drilling under the direct supervision of a Certified Well Driller holding a current SC License, logging of the core, reporting the percent of core recovered, location and orientation of fractures, and correlation of these fractures to adjacent cores if requested, describe the soil lithology, screen for volatile organic chemicals in the field, determine the depth to groundwater and free product (according to Solicitation section III.3.4.G.3), containerize all generated drill cuttings, complete a DHEC Form 1903, and complete a geologist’s log, and if requested collect a sample for lab analysis which will be analyzed under the “Laboratory Analysis items included in this solicitation. A single per-foot rate will be charged for each core drilled (e.g., a core drilled 20 feet in saprolite and 20 feet in bedrock will be considered 40 feet of rock coring with only one equipment mobilization). A completed DHEC Form 1903, or similar form, shall indicate the method (e.g., hollow stem auger. etc.) and other pertinent information. If bedrock is encountered during soil coring, the contractor will propose to DHEC installation of a casing from the surface to the top of the bedrock and drilling into the bedrock and extracting an oriented core. The core will be used to determine the location and orientation of fractures in the rock. To reduce the possibility of cross contamination, tests to determine the size of fractures and flow velocities should be conducted as soon as practical.

The coring cost will include logging of the core, reporting the percent of core recovered, location and orientation of fractures, and correlation of these fractures to adjacent cores if requested.

Item F. Soil Borings (requiring equipment, push technology, etc) or Field Screening (including water sampling and analysis sample collection)* 2-R Soil Coring: includes all personnel, equipment, and material costs associated with the advancement of temporary borings to collect continuous cores that does not require rock drilling (see Item F. Soil Borings (requiring equipment, push technology, etc) or Field Screening (including water sampling and analysis) 1-R Rock Coring), logging of the core, reporting the percent of core recovered, describing the soil lithology, screening the soil for volatile organic chemicals in the field with screening occurring every foot at the minimum, determine the depth to groundwater and free product (according to Solicitation section III.3.4.G.3), containerizing all generated drill cuttings, completing a DHEC Form 1903, and completing a geologist’s log, and if requested collect a sample for lab analysis which will be analyzed under the "Laboratory Analysis" items included in this Solicitation. A single per-foot rate will be charged for each core drilled (e.g., a core drilled 20 feet in saprolite and 20 feet in bedrock will be considered 40 feet of rock coring (see Item Item F.

Soil Borings (requiring equipment, push technology, etc.) or Field Screening (including water sampling and analysis) 1-R Rock Coring) with only one equipment mobilization). The geologist's log should contain detailed lithologic information including a stratigraphic, depositional system evaluation or lateral unit correlations throughout the site that is verified by sieve analysis by a professional geologist. A completed DHEC Form 1903, or similar form, shall indicate the method (e.g., hollow stem auger. etc.) and other pertinent information. This rate should be representative of the cost of collecting continuous samples with minimal disruption of the soil column or for the collection of undisturbed soil samples using drilling technologies that are more precise than borings collected by Item F. Soil Borings (requiring equipment, push technology, etc.) or Field Screening (including water sampling and analysis) * 1. Standard. One personnel mobilization may be added to this component if additional personnel is needed.