CN-370000-SW232-T14.pdf

DEP Contract No. SW 232, Task Assignment 14 Attachment A, Scope of Services

ATTACHMENT A

INDUSTRIAL DIVERS CORP. INC.

TASK ASSIGNMENT SW 232-14

SCOPE OF SERVICES

OSBORNE REEF WASTE TIRE ABATEMENT

The present scope of services is to implement abatement of 6,000 tires from the Osborne Reef and offload the abated waste tires into transport containers ready for pick up by the waste tire processor. The goal of the abatement is to protect the Osborne Reef, ultimately by removing those tires that are currently endangering the Reef, and also to prevent further endangerment to the living Reef and its surrounding habitat.

ABATEMENT AND SITE WORK

A. Support Vessel, Tow Vessel, and Crew

1) The Contractor shall provide a support vessel with current certificates of inspection capable of handling wind, weather, and sea conditions that are typical for southeast Florida during the late spring through fall for all work offshore. The support vessel shall be equipped with a real-time Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) able to navigate to a specific site. The support vessel shall be capable of anchoring for work in 70 ft depth. However, anchoring on hard bottom is prohibited. The support vessel and the crew shall be licensed and approved by the U.S. Coast Guard for the scope of work required.

2) The Contractor shall provide all of the supervision, labor, and equipment necessary for raising tires from the sea floor and to load onto the vessel. Tires will remain on tire slings or cargo nets until they are offloaded into storage containers at the designated container offload location.

3) The support vessel will be anchored or spudded in the sand between the middle and outer reef tracts offshore Broward County in the vicinity of the tire field. Buoys will be used to mark the eastern edge of the middle reef (minimum of three) and the western edge of the outer reef (minimum of three). Anchoring method will be such that any vessel movement would not cause the support vessel to drift over the reef tracts to the east or west of the operations.

4) The support vessel will have a crane to lift tire bundles from the water.

5) At the designated tire removal area, divers will thread tires by hand onto slings made of polypro or polydac or into cargo nets. Once a sufficient number of tires are threaded, determined by the length of the slings or nets and capacity of the crane/hoist, both ends of the rope will be brought together and shackled to an appropriate size lift bag. Once secured, the lift bag will be inflated by a diver and sent to the surface. A tow vessel will then attach a line and tow the lift bag/tire bundle to the anchored support vessel, if needed.

6) To reduce any turbidity plume and sedimentation onto hard bottom, the tow vessel will secure the lift bag and bundle in as short a time as possible. Bundles should not be allowed to drift east or west past the reef edge marker buoys.

7) When the tow vessel and bundle reach the support vessel, the crane/hoist will be attached to the tire bundle, the tow rope released and the bundle lifted onboard. The slings or nets will be removed from the tires and all salvage equipment removed from the container.

8) The primary landing site for offloading of tires into containers will be Port Everglades.

9) If necessary the Contractor will coordinate with Port Everglades (Port) Harbor Master’s office for port transit, required dockage, access to Ro-Ro docks for offloading tires into containers and all other required activities. In order to maintain a satisfactory relationship with the Port, the Contractor must comply with all provisions of the Port Harbor Master and any special or unforeseen requests by the Port that may arise as a result of the salvage activities.

10) Contractor will coordinate as needed with the transportation/processing contractor for the coordination of the availablility of the containers.

11) Contractor will secure the work area so that intrusion into the entire work area by anyone other than the contractor approved personnel is not possible.

B. Navigation and Obstruction of Channels

1) The Contractor shall operate in full compliance with pertinent U.S. Coast Guard regulations and conduct the work in such a manner as to minimize any obstruction to navigation.

C. Commercial Diving and Underwater Operations

1) The Contractor shall operate in full compliance with pertinent U.S Coast Guard and Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations regarding commercial diving operations

D. Acceptance and Payment for Removal of Tires

1) The Department shall pay the Contractor for the number of tires removed from the salvage area according to the unit prices indicated on the rate schedule.(Attachment B) E. Misplaced Materials

1) Should the Contractor, during the progress of the work, lose, dump, throw overboard, sink, or misplace any material or machinery, which in the opinion of the Department Contract Manager should be removed, the Contractor shall recover and remove the same with utmost dispatch. The Contractor shall give immediate notice, with description and location of such obstruction(s), to the Department Contract Manager. Should the Department Contract Manager discover such obstruction(s), the Department Contract Manager shall mark or buoy the obstruction(s) and notify the Contractor of its location. Removal of the obstruction(s) shall be the responsibility of the Contractor and the cost of the removal shall be the responsibility of the Contractor. Should the Contractor refuse, neglect, or delay compliance with the above requirements, such obstruction(s) may be removed by the Department and the cost of such removal shall be deducted from any money due or to become due to the Contractor.

F. Final Clean-Up

1) Final clean-up shall include the removal of the Contractor’s equipment and any material brought in to the salvage area.

G. Statutes, Laws and Regulations

1) The Contractor hereby agrees and shall be solely responsible for ensuring that the Contractor and any subcontractors make themselves fully aware of the requirements of any applicable ordinances, statutes, laws or Federal regulations, including but not limited to safety regulations, minimum wage regulations, and others. The Contractor further agrees the Department shall not be held responsible for ensuring compliance or notification on any changes or modifications to any such applicable ordinances, laws, statutes, rules, or regulations.

H. Weather Conditions

1) The project area may be affected by tropical storms and hurricanes primarily from June through

November, and by windy and/or rainy weather, including severe electrical storms, during any time of the year. The Contractor shall be responsible for obtaining information concerning rain, wind and wave conditions that could influence deployment activities.

DEP Contract No. SW 232, Task Assignment 14

2) Local Climatological Data - Monthly Summary published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Asheville, NC. Subscription price and ordering information available from the National Climatic Data Center, Federal Building, Asheville, NC 22801. This publication gives hourly wind speed and direction observations. The Annual Summary gives a summary of the observations for the period of record.

3) United the Department’s Coast Pilot Atlantic Coast, Cape Henry to Key West published by NOAA, for sale by National Ocean Service and its agents.

4) Summary of Synoptic Meteorological Observations: North American Coastal Marine Areas Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. Produced by Naval Weather Service, U.S. Department of Commerce.

Distributed by National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce.

5) Wave Hindcast Data is available at the Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District Office, as "Wave Information Studies of U.S. Coastlines, Hindcast Wave Information for the U.S. Atlantic Coast" produced by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, Coastal Engineering Research Center. Data from Station 11 reflects twenty (20) years of computer modeled wave data, at a station located in 90 meters of water offshore of Ocean Ridge (26.50 N -

80.00 W). Data are available for the period January, 1956 to December, 1975. It is noted that these data do not include the effects of tropical storms and hurricanes (Ref, Hindcast Wave Information for U.S. Atlantic Coast, WIS Report 30, U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi).

I. Notifications

1) The Contractor shall notify the Department Contract Manager at least 24 (twenty four) hours prior to the desired time of departure of the support vessel to the salvage site. Deployment date shall be acceptable to and approved by Department Contract Manager.

J. Deliverables

1) Invoices shall submitted with supporting documentation per 1,000 tires recovered and offloaded into the storage containers for transport, K. Documentation

1) The Contractor shall submit weekly to the Department Contract Manager a report on salvage activities. This report shall include, but not be limited to, daily time of arrival of support vessel on site, DGPS location of support vessel after anchoring, time salvage operations began, time salvage operations ended, number of tires removed, and tire storage containers offloaded into.

1) A progress report shall be submitted with each invoice and shall include, project status, report of any problems encountered, and recommendations for any modifications.

2) Contractor will provide any additional information as requested by the Department Contract Manager.

PRODUCTION AND QUALITY CONTROL

A. Production Control

1) The Contractor will assign a Project Manager to oversee the daily operations related to this assignment and to serve as a liaison for the site management Project Manager, if any, and DEP's Project Manager. All matters, correspondence, invoices and reports will be directed to DEP’s Project Manager for disposition. DEP will process the invoice within forty (40) days of receipt from the Contractor. DEP's Project Manager is Michell Mason Smith, (850) 245-8721.

2) The Contractor's Project Manager will retain records of abatement progress, all related barge and trailer movements, hours worked, any problems encountered and any time schedule changes anticipated.

3) Final reports will be made in writing and will specify amounts of materials retrieved, and transported on a daily basis, hours worked by Contractor, number of tires abated, number of transport containers and other equipment in operation during the week, problems encountered, and any time or schedule changes anticipated. This report are to be submitted with Contractor’s invoice.

B. Quality Control

1) The Contractor's Project Manager will assure that retrieval, transportation, and all other work to be done under this contract by the Contractor will meet the specifications and standards of DEP Contract #SW232, this Scope of Services, and any supplemental specifications provided by DEP.

2) The Contractor's Project Manager will maintain regular communication with DEP’s Project Manager to coordinate activities and update records.

3) The Contractor will guarantee that all of the material will be offloaded into to Wheelabrator Ridge Energy transport containers according to the Contractor's response in conformance with all applicable laws and regulations.

ATTACHMENT B

RATE SCHEDULE

The prices includes the cost of all things necessary for the contractor to provide the services described in Contract, SW232 including, but not limited to, personnel and labor costs, equipment, materials, travel and incidental expenses , insurance, fuel, MyFloridaMarketPlace transaction fee, the application of any multipliers (i.e., overhead, fringe benefits, etc.).

DESCRIPTION COST

RETRIEVAL COST PER TIRE $15.68