15-R-0006_(LJYC_10-6001)_Questions-Answers.docx

Questions & Answers

FA5685-15-R-0006

LJYC 10-6001; Construct EOD Facility 30 June 2015

1. Could you please kindly provide detailed information about furniture responsibility? Translation mistakes have been occurred in drawings on page A4 40 OF 176, note 1. Although note says in English furniture will be furnished and installed by government, Turkish translation says on the contrary.

Furniture shall be government furnished, government installed.

2. Could you please clarify applied insulation material on the interior walls? According to drawings, one of insulation material has been decided as rockwool(e.g. Sheet Number A10 General Note-1), whereas glasswool has been written on the Attachment 4 INC Form 1101 - Untabulated Cost Estimate

Rockwool insulation will be used.

3. Could you please clarify the thickness of CMU wall on the ground floor? 20 cm thickness CMU walls are shown on the drawings (e.g. Sheet Number A3). However there is no cost item at the Attachment 4 INC Form 1101 – Untabulated Cost Estimate

Please use cost item 1 at the attachment 4 INC Form 1101.

4. Do offerors have to submit any bank letter of assurance within the proposal?

Bank Letters of Guaranty will be required after contract award, but prior to contract performance.

5. Could you please clarify rooms which applied leveling concrete layer?

Levelling concrete layer shall be applied to all rooms except for Room No 102 and 103.

6. Could you please kindly provide information about differences between item 27: GRADING AND LANDSCAPING and item 34: LANDSCAPING ITEMS on the Attachment 4 INC Form 1101 – Untabulated Cost Estimate ?

Item 27 shall be grading and hardscaping, Item 34 shall be landscaping items.

7. Could you please kindly provide detailed information about interior wall gypsum board layer? According to Drawing A10 46 OF 176, General 1, Two layers of gypsum board will be applied to inner face of CMU exterior walls however SECTION AO/ A3,A4- A25 and SECTION AP/ A3,A4- A25 drawings on page A25 61 OF 176 show one layer of gypsum board panel will be applied.

One layer of gypsum board panel will be applied to 220 cm CMU walls on ground floor. Gypsum board walls on the first floor shall be two layers.

8. Due to intensive tender season and detailed technical proposal requirements, we kindly request 2 weeks of time extension for the submittal of this proposal.

The proposal due date will be changed to 22 July 2015, 1000 local time.

9. Could you please kindly provide unit of measure between 18 and 34 lines on the Attachment 4 INC Form 1101 – Untabulated Cost Estimate ?

See attachment.

10. Proposal closing date which stated in SF1442 as 17th of July is Turkish Ramadan Festival and national Holiday. We kindly request from you to extend the proposal due date from 17th of July to 24th of July Friday.

The proposal due date will be changed to 22 July 2015, 1000 local time.

11. IAW drawing sheet number 73; It is mentioned that soil bearing pressure indicated in design was 1.75 Kg. Is there any kind of soil investigation performed before design? If possible ,we would like to have one copy of design analysis including soil investigation report.

Yes there is soil investigation. Contractor has no responsibility to design the project. They are responsible for the CONSTRUCTION. So they don’t need any BOD data.

12. IAW Contract drawing A11 refers humididty resistant suspended ceiling.Could you please clarify resistance ratio of suspended ceiling (i.e %100 , %95 ?)

Min 95% RH is required.

13. IAW Contract drawing A4 note section refers ;All furnitures shall be goverment furnished,goverment installed ( GFGI) however on Turkish translation of related noted it refers Contructor furnished contractor installed (CFCI).Could you please clarify which statment will be considered ?

Please see answer 1.

14. IAW Contract drawing FP1 , Fire Suppression System notes #4 refer ; ‘’ all sprinkler pipe shall be black steel with threaded or grooved joint’’.Could you please clarify what type of pipe will be used ? ( i.e seamless black steel pipe or longitudially welded black steel pipe etc … )

Seamless black steel pipe shall be used.

15. IAW Contract drawings FP8 notes #2 refers ; Double check valve backflow preventer Watts, LF09 6’’ or equal however iaw contract drawing FP09 , Equipment list #5 refers ; Viking series 826YD or equal. Could you please clarify ;Which brand and model will be considered ?

Backflow Preventer shall be double check Watts LF709 (not LF09) 6’’ or approved equal.

16. Drawing FP8 and drawing P2 show ; differant water mains are used for fire pump room and mechanical room of the building. Backflow preventer for fire pump room considered however backflow preventer for domestic water system is not be considered.Will be new blackflow preventer considered for domestic water system main? If yes could you please specifiy size and model?

No backflow preventer will be installed on domestic water supply to building.

17. Sinages and wall partition types have not been indicated in the drawings

Signage is not part of project except warning plate of mezzanine load carrying capacity. Wall partition types are specified on sheets A4, A16, A17 and A18.

18. Proposal Submittal date, Jul 17 2015 (Friday), is the first day of Eid of Ramadan. We kindly request extension until Jul 21, 2017 Tuesday (second business day after Eid).

The proposal due date will be changed to 22 July 2015, 1000 local time.