Performance Standards.pdf
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- Roadside Maintenance - Helena- Lewis & Clark Federal contract opportunity
- Solicitation number
- 1284LM25Q0048
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- Department of Agriculture Forest Service
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The Performance Standards document is an attachment detailing specific quality standards, acceptable quality levels, means of measurement, and potential penalties for road maintenance tasks in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. The document outlines seven critical task areas: Roadbed Moisture Content Determination, Ditch Cleaning and Shaping, Reshaping Road (Aggregate and Native Surfacing), Structure and Improvement Protection, Compaction, and Watershed Protection.
For each task, the standards specify precise technical requirements, such as maintaining specific moisture content ranges (6-8% for aggregate surfaces, 12-20% for native surfaces), ensuring proper road crowning and slope ratios (5-8% crown, 3-5% outslope), protecting existing structures, preventing sediment pollution, and meeting state-approved Best Management Practices. The document provides detailed penalties for non-compliance, including potential rework at contractor expense, poor performance ratings, partial or full compensation withholding, and potential contract termination for repeated deficiencies.
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PERFORMANCE STANDARDS ATTACHMENT 2 pg. 1
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
Contractor Performance Checklist
Tasks and Critical
Subtasks Quality Standards
Acceptable Quality
Level Means of Measurement Penalties
Roadbed Moisture Content (MC) Determination
Blade Roadbed when adequate
MC is present
Apply water or aerate as needed.
Optimum MC for aggregate surfaces is 6-8% + 2% depending on the amount of fines.
Optimum MC for native surfaces is
12-20% depending on amount and type of fines.
Optimum MC to insure mixing, processing, lay down and compaction.
Recognized
Industry Standards for blading aggregate surfaced and native surface roads.
Contractor maintained MC during blading so that processed materials are well mixed and finished surfaces are smooth and compacted.
Aggregate surfaces tight and non-raveling.
Recognized
Industry Quality workmanship.
Government may inspect during all operations to satisfy that adequate MC is present.
Contractor performance substantiates that optimum MC and recognized Industry
Standards are being met.
Contractor may be required to re-work, at their expense, the unacceptable section when the
MC returns to within acceptable range
Government may withhold full or partial compensation for that section
Contractor may receive poor performance rating
Contract may be terminated with repeated deficiencies.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS ATTACHMENT 2 pg. 2
Tasks and Critical
Subtasks Quality Standards
Acceptable Quality
Level Means of Measurement Penalties
Ditch Cleaning and Shaping Cleaning and reshaping ditches
Cleaning lead-out ditches
Original lines and grades are restored
Accepted industry quality workmanship.
Slough, debris, and deposition is removed
Water is able to flow freely with no significant constrictions
No avoidable standing water in ditch lines.
Back slopes have not been undercut.
Lead-out ditches drain to daylight
Shoulder ditch slope at a 3:1 ratio
(horz:vert)
Excess ditch material has been pulled onto and across roadway and deposited off road on fill slopes;
it has not been heeled onto backslope.
Visual verification.
Measurement with standard survey equipment such as level, rod, etc.
Contractor may be required to re-work, at their expense, the unacceptable portions of work
Contractor may receive poor performance rating
Contract may be terminated with
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS ATTACHMENT 2 pg. 3
Subtasks Quality Standards
Acceptable Quality
Level Means of Measurement Penalties
Reshaping Road – Aggregate Surfacing Cut, relay, and reshape to full surfaced width
(including turnouts) and to sufficient depth to remove rutting, potholing, washing, and wash boarding
Existing crown/out-slope preserved or enhanced
Aggregate surface is restored to uniform depth and free of ruts, potholes, washes and wash boarding
Road surface drains effectively.
Intersections properly blended with no abrupt edges.
Oversize material removed.
Sod is broken down and materials incorporated back into the roadway.
Accepted industry quality workmanship.
No berms or ridges along either shoulder of roadbed.
No oversize material greater than 2 inches.
Crown 5-8%
Aggregate has not been contaminated
Little or no lost material outside of roadbed.
Pot holes, ruts, washes, and wash boards have been cut to the bottom of the defect and the road material blended, re-laid, shaped and compacted along with the rest of the road surface.
Visual verification.
Measurement with standard survey equipment such as level, rod, etc.
Contractor may be required to re-work, at their expense, the unacceptable portions of work
Contractor may receive poor performance rating
Contract may be terminated with repeated deficiencies.
Contractor may be required to replace any aggregate lost that can not be recovered.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS ATTACHMENT 2 pg. 4
Subtasks Quality Standards
Acceptable Quality
Level Means of Measurement Penalties
Reshaping Road – Native Surfacing
Crowning/out-sloping
Material spread evenly over surface to form a
“pad”
Side cast oversize rocky material
Clean/reshape existing drain dips
Scarification and blending of materials
Road crowned or out-sloped
No material is wasted
No oversize material on road
No berms or ridges left along either shoulder
Oversize rocky material removed.
Road surface drains effectively
Sod is broken down and earthen materials incorporated back into roadway.
Accepted industry quality workmanship.
Road bed smooth and dressed to produce a uniform grade and cross section, with a surface free of hollows, depressions, and projections
No berms or ridges along either shoulder of roadbed.
Dips are smooth with good transitions
No oversize rocky material greater than 3 inches.
Crown 5-8%
Outslope 3-5 %
Visual verification.
Measurement with standard survey equipment such as level, rod, etc.
Contractor may be required to re-work, at their expense, the unacceptable portions of work
Contractor may receive poor performance rating
Contract may be terminated with
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS ATTACHMENT 2 pg. 5
Subtasks Quality Standards
Acceptable Quality
Level Means of Measurement Penalties
Structure and Improvement Protection Protecting existing structures and improvements.
Structures and improvements are protected from damage.
Structures and
Improvements are free from grading material
No damage to structures or improvements
Minimal material deposited on or in cattle guards, bridge decks, culverts, etc.
No pothole or depressions where structure meets roadway.
Visual verification.
Measurement with standard survey equipment such as level, rod, etc.
Contractor may be required to clean, repair, or replace, at their expense, any plugged or damaged structure or improvements.
Contractor may receive poor performance rating
Government may withhold full or partial compensation.
Contract may be terminated with
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS ATTACHMENT 2 pg. 6
Subtasks Quality Standards
Acceptable Quality
Level Means of Measurement Penalties
Compaction Compacting roadbed. Aggregate moisture content suitable for optimum compaction.
No visual displacement of aggregate.
Entire width of roadway uniformly compacted.
Entire roadbed holds together under normal use.
Entire roadway smooth.
Road template meets typicals shown on drawings
Visual verification.
Measurement with standard survey equipment such as level, rod, etc.
Contractor may be required to re-work, at their expense, the unacceptable portions of work.
Contractor may receive poor performance rating
Government may withhold full or partial compensation.
Contract may be terminated with
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS ATTACHMENT 2 pg. 7
Subtasks Quality Standards
Acceptable Quality
Level Means of Measurement Penalties
Watershed Protection
Prevention of sediment pollution in live drainages.
Meet State approved Best
Management
Practices.
No introduction of sediment into drainages and water ways due to contractor’s operations.
No hazardous waste deposited on ground.
No deposits left within 100 feet each side of live drainages.
Roadway drainage to occur 100 feet before and after waterways.
Clean dips, culverts and cross drains to prevent erosion and sediment delivery into waterways.
Eliminate edges that develop on road surfaces that direct non-intended water toward waterways.
Fuel and lubricant spills avoided..
Visual verification.
Measurement with standard survey equipment such as level, rod, etc.
Contractor may be required to re-work, at their expense, the unacceptable portions of work.
Government may withhold full or partial compensation for that section
Contractor may receive poor performance rating
Contract may be terminated with
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