Document Summary

This is Amendment No. 3 to DEP Contract No. GC582, a state and local indefinite delivery contract executed between the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and two contractors: J.A. Jones Environmental Services Company and Owen Ayers & Associates, Inc. The contract, originally dated June 16, 1999, was previously amended on November 22, 2000, and February 22, 2002, with this third amendment executed on June 25, 2003. The contract is managed by FDEP Contract Manager Rebecca Lockenbach and is classified as a petroleum contamination cleanup service under OLO 37 with contract number GC582 (A3). The contract end date is June 15, 2004.

This indefinite delivery contract provides environmental remediation and petroleum storage systems cleanup services on a per-task assignment basis. Amendment No. 3 substantively revises contract provisions governing retainage, liquidated damages, payment procedures, and deliverable requirements. The amendment establishes a retainage mechanism of up to 15 percent of each payment pending satisfactory task completion and approval, with liquidated damages assessed at 0.5 percent per week for each week deliverables are late. The amendment introduces a Liquidated Damages Assessment Form (Attachment K) and revises task assignment notification procedures, change order processes, contractor affidavit requirements, and verbal authorization procedures for scope changes. Pricing is structured per task assignment under both fixed-price and cost-plus arrangements, with compensation and retainage amounts specified within individual task assignment notifications.