Draft_PWS_.pdf

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS)

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard

Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) field evaluation services

Part 1

General Information

1. GENERAL: This is a non-personnel services contract to provide National Recognized Testing

Laboratory (NRTL) field evaluation services. The Government shall not exercise any supervision or control over the contract service providers performing the services herein. Such contract service providers shall be accountable solely to the Contractor who, in turn is responsible to the Government.

1.1 Description of Services/Introduction: The contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform NRTL field evaluation services as defined in this Performance Work Statement except for those items specified as government furnished property and services. The contractor shall perform to the standards in this contract.

1.2 Background: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (PSNS) and Bangor Trident Refit Facility (TRF) procures several million dollars of Industrial Plant Equipment (IPE) each Fiscal Year (FY). For nearly all IPE assets procured each FY, the PSNS Environmental, Safety, and Health Office, Code 106, requires the owning organization to obtain NRTL field evaluation services to verify that the installed IPE and its component parts are in compliance with OSHA regulations concerning electrical and machine guarding safety. This contracting effort will provide a means to obtain NRTL field evaluation services for IPE procurements where NRTL field evaluation services are not a requirement of the equipment procurement contract.

1.3 Objectives: The objective of this service contract is to obtain NRTL field evaluation services for the purpose of verifying that installed IPE and its component parts are in compliance with OSHA regulations concerning electrical and machine guarding safety.

1.4 Scope: The contractor shall provide third party evaluation of Government owned IPE to certify compliance with the applicable Occupational Safety Health Administration (OSHA) regulations in accordance with CFR Title 29, Chapter XVII, Part 1910, and to ensure the Government owned IPE has been installed in accordance with NEC/NFPA requirements. The Government owned equipment that satisfies the applicable OSHA, NEC, and/or NFPA requirements shall be labeled with a NRTL registered certification mark that identifies that the Government owned equipment is in conformance with the applicable safety and technical standards. A NRTL field evaluation report shall be provided to the

Government indicating all deficiencies and implemented resolution(s). The NRTL field evaluation report shall indicate whether the Government owned equipment has been labeled or not, and if it has been labeled, the field evaluation report shall indicate that the Government owned equipment is in conformance with the applicable safety and technical standards.

1.5. Specific Tasks:

1.6. NRTL Field Evaluation Services. The contractor shall provide Occupational Safety and Health

Administration (OSHA) recognized NRTL field evaluation services to verify that Government owned IPE, its installation if applicable, and component parts is in compliance with the requirements of 29 CFR 1910, NFPA 70, and NFPA 79. Compliance and/or approval shall be specified under the “Approval” and

“Acceptance” criteria in the OSHA regulations Subpart “O”, Machinery and Machine Guarding paragraph

1910.212, and Subpart “S”, Electrical paragraph 1910.303 and paragraph1910.399.

Contract will be required to deliver as a result of every task the following:

DELIVERABLES SCHEDULE

Deliverable Frequency # of Copies Medium/Format Submit To

NRTL Field

Evaluation Report, PWS paragraph

1.6.1.

One NRTL Field

Evaluation Report shall be provided for all equipment evaluated on a given

NRTL evaluation visit. The NRTL

Field Evaluation

Report shall be provided within 45 calendar days of the evaluation visit.

Electronic copy

MS Word format

Attn:

Kyle Krogstad kyle.krogstad@navy

.mil

(360)627-4789

1.6.1. OSHA Approved Certification. The Government owned IPE, and its installation if applicable, shall be inspected, approved as defined in 29 CFR 1910.399, and labeled by a Nationally Recognized Testing

Laboratory as defined in 29 CFR 1910.7. A NRTL Field Evaluation Report shall be provided to the

Government showing all deficiencies and methods of resolution of those deficiencies.

1.7. Period of Performance: The period of performance shall be for one (1) Base Year of 12 months and four (4) 12-month option years. The Period of Performance reads as follows:

Base Year

Option Year I

Option Year II

Option Year III

Option Year IV

1.8. General Information

1.8.1. Quality Assurance: The government shall evaluate the contractor’s performance under this contract in accordance with the Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan. This plan is primarily focused on what the

Government must do to ensure that the contractor has performed in accordance with the performance standards. It defines how the performance standards will be applied, the frequency of surveillance, and the minimum acceptable defect rate(s).

1.8.2. Recognized Holidays: The contractor shall not perform services on any of the recognized Federal

Holidays listed herein.

New Year’s Day Labor Day

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday Columbus Day

President’s Day Veteran’s Day mailto:kyle.krogstad@navy.mil mailto:kyle.krogstad@navy.mil

Memorial Day Thanksgiving Day

Independence Day Christmas Day

1.8.3. Hours of Operation: The contractor is responsible for conducting business, between the hours of

7:20a.m. and 4:02p.m. Monday thru Friday except Federal holidays or when the Government facility is closed due to local or national emergencies, administrative closings, or similar Government directed facility closings. For other than firm fixed price contracts, the contractor will not be reimbursed when the government facility is closed for the above reasons. The Contractor must at all times maintain an adequate workforce for the uninterrupted performance of all tasks defined within this PWS when the Government facility is not closed for the above reasons. When hiring personnel, the Contractor shall keep in mind that the stability and continuity of the workforce are essential.

1.8.4. Place of Performance: The work to be performed under this contract will be performed at Puget

Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton site, inside of the Controlled Industrial Area with all associated security requirements described herein.

1.8.5. Type of Contract: The government will award a firm-fixed-price commercial service blanket purchase agreement (BPA)

1.8.6. Special Qualifications: The contract personnel performing third party evaluation of Government owned IPE to certify compliance with the applicable Occupational Safety and Health Administration

(OSHA) regulations in accordance with CFR Title 29, Chapter XVII, Part 1910 and ensuring the

Government owned IPE has been installed in accordance with NEC/NFPA requirements shall be a trained and qualified employee of an OSHA recognized Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory who is authorized to certify and label the Government owned equipment with a registered certification mark to designate that the equipment is in conformance with the applicable safety and technical standards. The contractor will be required to conform to all Federal NTRL requirements (such as but not limited to OSHA, NFPA, FCC, etc.).

1.8.7. Post Award Conference/Periodic Progress Meetings: The Contractor agrees to attend any post award conference convened by the contracting activity or contract administration office in accordance with

Federal Acquisition Regulation Subpart 42.5. The contracting officer, Contracting Officers Representative

(COR), and other Government personnel, as appropriate, may meet periodically with the contractor to review the contractor's performance. At these meetings the contracting officer will apprise the contractor of how the government views the contractor's performance and the contractor will apprise the Government of problems, if any, being experienced. Appropriate action shall be taken to resolve outstanding issues.

These meetings shall be at no additional cost to the government.

1.8.8. Contracting Officer Representative (COR): The (COR) will be identified by separate letter. The

COR monitors all technical aspects of the contract and assists in contract administration The COR is authorized to perform the following functions: assure that the Contractor performs the technical requirements of the contract: perform inspections necessary in connection with contract performance:

maintain written and oral communications with the Contractor concerning technical aspects of the contract:

issue written interpretations of technical requirements, including Government drawings, designs, specifications: monitor Contractor's performance and notifies both the Contracting Officer and Contractor of any deficiencies; coordinate availability of government furnished property, and provide site entry of

Contractor personnel. A letter of designation issued to the COR, a copy of which is sent to the Contractor, states the responsibilities and limitations of the COR, especially with regard to changes in cost or price, estimates or changes in delivery dates. The COR is not authorized to change any of the terms and conditions of the resulting order.

1.8.9. Key Personnel: The follow personnel are considered key personnel by the government: The contractor shall provide a contract manager who shall be responsible for the performance of the work. The name of this person and an alternate who shall act for the contractor when the manager is absent shall be designated in writing to the contracting officer. The contract manager or alternate shall have full authority to act for the contractor on all contract matters relating to daily operation of this contract. The contract manager or alternate shall be available between 8:00 a.m. to 4:30p.m., Monday thru Friday except Federal holidays or when the government facility is closed for administrative reasons.

1.8.10. Identification of Contractor Employees: All contract personnel attending meetings, answering

Government telephones, and working in other situations where their contractor status is not obvious to third parties are required to identify themselves as such to avoid creating an impression in the minds of members of the public that they are Government officials. They must also ensure that all documents or reports produced by contractors are suitably marked as contractor products or that contractor participation is appropriately disclosed. All contract personnel shall wear the security access badge provided by the

Government at all times while conducting the services specified herein on Government property.

1.8.11. Data Rights: The Government has unlimited rights to all documents/material produced under this contract. All documents and materials produced under this contract shall be Government owned and are the property of the Government with all rights and privileges of ownership/copyright belonging exclusively to the Government. These documents and materials may not be used or sold by the contractor without written permission from the Contracting Officer. All materials supplied to the Government shall be the sole property of the Government and may not be used for any other purpose. This right does not abrogate any other Government rights.

1.8.12. Organizational Conflict of Interest: Contractor and subcontractor personnel performing work under this contract may receive, have access to or participate in the development of proprietary or source selection information (e.g., cost or pricing information, budget information or analyses, specifications or work statements, etc.) or perform evaluation services which may create a current or subsequent

Organizational Conflict of Interests (OCI) as defined in FAR Subpart 9.5. The Contractor shall notify the

Contracting Officer immediately whenever it becomes aware that such access or participation may result in any actual or potential OCI and shall promptly submit a plan to the Contracting Officer to avoid or mitigate any such OCI. The Contractor’s mitigation plan will be determined to be acceptable solely at the discretion of the Contracting Officer and in the event the Contracting Officer unilaterally determines that any such

OCI cannot be satisfactorily avoided or mitigated, the Contracting Officer may effect other remedies as he or she deems necessary, including prohibiting the Contractor from participation in subsequent contracted requirements which may be affected by the OCI.