Contract Summary

This is an indefinite delivery contract (GC709) between the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Lee County Board of County Commissioners, Lee County Division of Natural Resources, for the administration of a Storage Tank System Compliance Verification Program in Lee County. The contract was executed on June 26, 2007, with an effective date of July 1, 2007, and a termination date of June 30, 2017. The contractor, Lee County Board of County Commissioners, is identified by FEID No. 59-6000702 and maintains offices at P.O. Box 398, Fort Myers, Florida 33902, with primary contact Tony Pellicer (239-479-8129). The DEP contract manager is Marshall Mott-Smith, located at the Bureau of Petroleum Storage Systems in Tallahassee, Florida.

The contract requires the contractor to perform compliance inspections of storage tank systems within Lee County, including discharge inspections, closure inspections, installation inspections, routine compliance inspections, re-inspections, complaint investigations, and Level 1 enforcement actions. The contractor must complete all inspections using the Florida Inspection Reporting for Storage Tanks (FIRST) database and maintain qualified personnel including individuals at the Environmental Specialist I or higher level. Compensation is provided on a fixed-price basis through executed Task Assignment Notification Forms, with monthly invoicing not to exceed specified amounts per task assignment. The contract includes performance standards requiring 33 percent of inspections completed after four months, 66 percent after eight months, and 100 percent completion within twelve months, with penalties of 8.3 percent of the task assignment amount assessed for performance shortfalls. The contractor must maintain separate accounting for Inland Protection Trust Fund expenditures, submit annual financial statements within forty-five days of invoice payment, and maintain fund balances within ten percent of current-year task assignment amounts, with surplus funds returned to DEP.