Document Summary

This is an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract between the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Jones-Ayres Joint Venture, comprising J.A. Jones Environmental Services Company (North Carolina corporation) and Owen Ayres & Associates, Inc. (Wisconsin corporation). The contract was executed in June 1999 for petroleum contamination site cleanup services. Contract Manager Rebecca S. Lockenbach represents the Department, and David K. Kemp represents the contractor. The contract is designated GC582 and allows for task assignment authorization of five years with a potential renewal period not to exceed the original five-year term. No minimum work amount is guaranteed under the contract.

Services are provided on a task assignment basis with compensation structured as a combination of fixed price and cost reimbursement plus fixed fee arrangements. The contract includes comprehensive rate schedules for labor categories (organized by occupational groups from management through technical and clerical), equipment rental, and laboratory analytical services through subcontractors Environmental Conservation Laboratories, Inc.; PC & B Environmental Laboratories, Inc.; and PPB Environmental Laboratories, Inc. The Department retains retainage of up to 15 percent pending satisfactory completion of task assignments. Contractor overhead, indirect costs, and general/administrative costs are applied as multipliers to direct labor, with rates specified for Jones at 29.92 percent payroll taxes and fringe costs, 55.23 percent indirect costs, and 6.56 percent general and administrative costs, and for Ayres at 71.03 percent total fringe benefits and 78.54 percent general and administrative costs. The contract stipulates a 42 percent small and minority business utilization requirement and mandates equipment purchases over $500 become Department property upon acquisition.