CN-370000-GC859-A2.pdf

This document is Amendment No. 2 to DEP Contract No. GC859, a restated contract between the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and FRS Environmental Remediation, Inc. dba The FGS Group. The contract was originally entered into on February 19, 2014, and amended and restated on September 30, 2015. The amendment was executed on March 14, 2017, by the Interim Secretary of DEP and the ATC Contract Manager for FRS Environmental Remediation, Inc. The contractor is located at 120 East Martin Luther King Boulevard, Tampa, Florida 33603, with notices directed to the Department's Petroleum Restoration Program office in Tallahassee, Florida.

This amendment modifies multiple contract provisions including notice and communication requirements, public records management and compliance procedures, record keeping and audit standards, tax exemption status, disqualification criteria, employment verification requirements, scrutinized company provisions for contracts exceeding one million dollars, MyFloridaMarketPlace transaction fee assessments, and execution procedures allowing counterpart signatures via facsimile or PDF format. The amendment also updates the Scope of Services Appendix to delete Item No. 44 (Investigations Near Petroleum Storage Systems) and add Items 44.a and 44.b, which reference a restatement of a September 26, 2000 Amended Guidance Memorandum regarding contractor damage to petroleum storage systems and performance standards for state-funded investigations near petroleum storage systems and utilities effective December 16, 2016. All other terms and conditions of the restated contract remain unchanged.