Summary

This is a Contract Renewal Renegotiation Summary Form and Amendment No. 3 for DEP Contract No. HW552, executed between the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), Bureau of Waste Cleanup, and Professional Service Industries, Inc. (PSI). The amendment was executed on March 26, 2014, and reflects a contract renegotiation conducted pursuant to Chapter 2010-151, Laws of Florida, which requires state agencies to review existing contract renewals with private providers to reduce contract payments.

The contract provides professional engineering and geological support services for the Waste Cleanup Program on a task assignment basis. The amendment increases the contract ceiling from $20,000,000.00 to $40,000,000.00 and increases the funding increment from $3,263,781.77 to $3,618,781.77. The current contract end date is December 9, 2015, with a five-year possible renewal period extending to December 9, 2020. To achieve cost reductions, the parties negotiated a 3% across-the-board reduction in equipment cost rates. The amendment achieves $10,000,000.00 in total savings. Attachment E-1 provides the revised rate schedule, including direct labor rates for various classifications, indirect rates with multipliers for overhead and project management, laboratory rates for primary and secondary analyses, equipment rates for air sampling/monitoring and soil/sediment equipment, vehicle rental rates, and personal protection equipment costs. An expendables rate of $32.50 per day is included for fieldwork activities. The funding is supported by a combination of Federal and State sources, with appropriation categories identified as 101492, 101494, 082474, 088502, and 080524, under budget entity 37450300.