Draft Statement of Need - FSH Materials.pdf

Statement of Need

Purchase and Delivery of Materials used for Burials and Grounds Maintenance

General Scope: Contractor shall be responsible for all labor, supervision, materials, and equipment to deliver the following materials to Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery: Sand, Topsoil, Crushed Rock, Crushed Limestone, Mulch, Road Base, Texas Blend Rock, and Decomposed Granite.

Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery 1520 Harry Wurzbach Rd San Antonio TX, 78209

Order and Delivery Time Frame: Materials must be delivered within five (5) business days of receipt of order unless an alternate time frame is agreed upon in writing with the COR.

Delivery Instructions: Deliveries of Topsoil MUST be made with a 10CY Tandem Dump Truck or smaller due to low height requirements at the enter point into the cemetery and exit via San Antonio Blvd to the Maintenance Material Storage Bins. All other materials may be delivered by Tractor Trailer End Dump / Live Bottom or similar equipment via Cougar Way off of Rittiman Road to the Material Storage yard located along the East Perimeter Cemetery Boundary.

Submittals: For the screened planting topsoil, the topsoil provider's specification sheet shall be submitted prior to each delivery. The information shall include the date of analysis, soil texture, soil pH, soluble salts, CEC, and percent soil organic matter.

Description and Specification of Required Items:

1. Screened Fill Sand (priced per yard)

a. The screened fill sand shall be composed of fragments of durable rock screened free from undesirable quantities of soft or flaky particles, loam, and organic or other deleterious material.

2. Screened Planting Topsoil

a. The planting topsoil shall be a loam, sandy loam, clay loam, silt loam, sandy clay loam, and/or loamy sand conforming to ASTM D 5268 Topsoil, with pH range of 5.5 to 8.5, a minimum of 4 percent organic material content and a maximum of 20% organic material content; free of weed seeds, noxious weeds, invasive plants, stones 1 inch or larger in any dimension, foreign matter and other extraneous materials harmful to plant growth, including, but not limited to roots, plants, sod, stones, and clay lumps.

b. Topsoil shall not be infested with nematodes, grubs, other pests, pest eggs, or other undesirable organisms and disease-causing plant pathogens.

c. Topsoil shall be friable and with sufficient structure to give good tilth and aeration.

Continuous, air-filled, pore-space content on a volume/volume basis shall be at least 15 percent when moisture is present at field capacity. Soil shall have a field capacity of at least 15 percent on a dry weight basis.

3. Crushed Rock, General:

a. Crushed Rock shall be composed of limestone, granite, dolomite, or any other hard, sound rock that is produced by blasting and then crushing.

b. Crushed Rock shall be clean, hard, tough, and durable fragments (excluding) schist, shale or slate) of uniform quality throughout and free of any detrimental quantities of soft, friable, thin, elongated or laminated pieces, disintegrated material, dirt, organic matter, oil, alkali, or other deleterious substance.

c. Crushed Rock shall consist of hard durable fragments of particles of rock, free of stripping dirt, vegetation, and other foreign substances. Hardness: Resistant to breaking, crushing or crumbling

d. Shape: Sharp and angular (Do not use rounded pea gravel.)

e. Gravel or Crushed Gravel mixed with filler, sand, crushed rock, or crushed stone is NOT an acceptable substitutes

f. The gradation of crushed rock shall comply with ASTM D-448. Sampling and sieve analysis shall be performed in accordance with ASTM D-75 and ASTM C-136.

4. 1/2” Crushed Rock Base

a. In addition to the specifications for Crushed Rock listed above in a. through e., this ½” crushed rock shall consist of the product obtained by crushing rock or stone so that is meets the following gradation requirements:

Sieve Size % of Passing 1/2 inch 100 3/8 inch 70 – 90 No. 4 50 – 72 No. 8 35 – 55 No. 40 14 – 32 No. 200 4 – 10

5. 3/4” to Dust Crushed Limestone Base (TXDOT Item #247, Grade 3, Type A Flexible

Base)

a. In addition to the specifications for Crushed Rock listed in para 3a. through e., this flexible base shall consist of the product obtained by crushing rock or stone so that is meets the following gradation requirements:

Sieve Size % Retained, Cumulative 1-3/4 inch 0 3/4 inch 1 – 5 1/2 inch 5 – 20 3/8 inch 20 – 40 No. 4 45 – 75

No. 40 50 – 85

b. The portion of any component or of the completed course passing the No. 40 sieve shall be either non-plastic or have a liquid limit not greater than 40 and a plasticity index not greater than 12.

c. The material type shall be Type A: Crushed stone produced and graded from oversize quarried aggregate that originates from a single, naturally occurring source. Do not use gravel or multiple sources.

6. Mulch – Texas Native Hardwood Mulch

a. Color

b. Particle size and consistency: ground and screened (medium coarseness)

c. No contamination with plastic; glass; metal; rock nor paper (none visible: less than 0.5 percent by weight or volume

7. Road Base Limestone - (1 ½ to minus)

a. In addition to the specifications for Crushed Rock listed in para 3a. through e., this flexible base shall consist of the product obtained by crushing rock or stone so that is meets the following gradation requirements:

Sieve Size % Retained, Cumulative 1-1/2 inch 5 - 10 3/4 inch 10 - 15 1/2 inch 15 – 20 3/8 inch 20 – 40 No. 4 45 – 75 No. 40 65– 85

b. The portion of any component or of the completed course passing the No. 40 sieve shall be either non-plastic or have a liquid limit not greater than 40 and a plasticity index not greater than 12.

c. The material type shall be Type A: Crushed stone produced and graded from oversize quarried aggregate that originates from a single, naturally occurring source. Do not use gravel or multiple sources.

8. Texas Blend Rock - (2”to 3”)

a. Natural River stone harvested from river bottoms locally

b. Multi-colored with browns, tans, whites, reds, and neutral colors

c. Stone sizes range from 2” to 3”. Large stones in the 4” plus is unacceptable.

9. Decomposed Granite - (1/4” to minus)

a. Decomposed granite is derived from the crushing and screening of naturally friable granite. The blending of course sand with rock dust is not an equal product. The granite is screened to include stone particles of ½” minus. The particles that pass the 200-screen mesh as determined by ATSM methodology shall not exceed 18 percent.

Sieve Size % Passing ½” 100 3/8” 90 - 100 No. 4 50 - 100 No. 30 25 - 55 No. 100 10 - 20 No. 200 5 - 18

Base Year:

CLIN

No.

Description:

Material/Product:

Est. Qty Frequency/

Unit Unit Cost Est. Total Cost

0001 Sand 1,000 CY $_________ $___________

0002 Top Soil 2,000 CY $_________ $___________

0003 Crushed Rock (Grade 4) 1,250 Ton $_________ $___________

0004 Crushed limestone (Grade 3) 500 CY $_________ $___________

0005 Mulch 400 YDS $_________ $___________

0006 Road Base Limestone (1 ½” to minus)

750 Ton $_________ $___________

Texas Blend Rock (2” to 3”) 100 Ton $_________ $___________

Decomposed Granite (1/4” to minus) 450 Ton $_________ $___________

Total Estimated Cost: $___________

Option Year 1:

No.

Description:

Material/Product:

Est. Qty Frequency/

Unit Unit Cost Est. Total Cost

1001 Sand 1,000 CY $_________ $___________

1002 Top Soil 2,000 CY $_________ $___________

1003 Crushed Rock (Grade 4) 1,250 Ton $_________ $___________

1004 Crushed limestone (Grade 3) 500 CY $_________ $___________

1005 Mulch 400 YDS $_________ $___________

Road Base Limestone (1 ½” to minus) 750 Ton $_________ $___________

Texas Blend Rock (2” to 3”) 100 Ton $_________ $___________

1008 Decomposed Granite (1/4”

Option Year 2:

No.

Description:

Material/Product:

Est. Qty Frequency/

Unit Unit Cost Est. Total Cost

2001 Sand 1,000 CY $_________ $___________

2002 Top Soil 2,000 CY $_________ $___________

2003 Crushed Rock (Grade 4) 1,250 Ton $_________ $___________

2004 Crushed limestone (Grade 3) 500 CY $_________ $___________

2005 Mulch 400 YDS $_________ $___________

Road Base Limestone (1 ½” to minus) 750 Ton $_________ $___________

2007 Texas Blend Rock (2” to 3”) 100 Ton $_________ $___________

2008 Decomposed Granite (1/4”

Option Year 3:

No.

Description:

Material/Product:

Est. Qty Frequency/

Unit Unit Cost Est. Total Cost

3001 Sand 1,000 CY $_________ $___________

3002 Top Soil 2,000 CY $_________ $___________

3003 Crushed Rock (Grade 4) 1,250 Ton $_________ $___________

3004 Crushed limestone (Grade 3) 500 CY $_________ $___________

3005 Mulch 400 YDS $_________ $___________

3006 Road Base Limestone (1 ½” to minus) 750 Ton $_________ $___________

3007 Texas Blend Rock (2” to 3”) 100 Ton $_________ $___________

3008 Decomposed Granite (1/4”

Option Year 4:

No.

Description:

Material/Product:

Est. Qty Frequency/

Unit Unit Cost Est. Total Cost

4001 Sand 1,000 CY $_________ $___________

4002 Top Soil 2,000 CY $_________ $___________

4003 Crushed Rock (Grade 4) 1,250 Ton $_________ $___________

4004 Crushed limestone (Grade 3) 500 CY $_________ $___________

4005 Mulch 400 YDS $_________ $___________

4006 Road Base Limestone (1 ½” to minus) 750 Ton $_________ $___________

4007 Texas Blend Rock (2” to 3”) 100 Ton $_________ $___________

4008 Decomposed Granite (1/4”

PRICE SUMMARY TOTALS

Total Cost

Base Year $_______________________

Option Year 1: $ ______________________ Option Year 2: $ ______________________ Option Year 3: $ ______________________ Option Year 4: $ ______________________

Grand Total (Base + all Option Years): $ ______________________