PWS - Buried Fiber Locate FSGA.pdf

Southeast Region - Network Enterprise Center Performance Work Statement

Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield Buried Fiber Locate/Repair

1. PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT: The Contractor provide cable locates as required for approximately 20 miles of 24-strand fiber cable buried between Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield (HAAF) along public right-of-way. This fiber cable extends DWDM/SONET backbone service between Fort Stewart and HAAF

2. GENERAL: This Locate Plan is provided for the 24 strand fiber optic cable that is placed along the public R/W between Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Air Field

This Locate Plan describes the work to be performed by contractor at Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Air Field.

3. CONTRACTOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

3.1 The contractor shall provide sufficient qualified staff, office and field, equipment, transportation and supplies sufficient to fulfill its duties under this Locate Plan.

3.2 The contractor shall receive and record Locate Requests from the Georgia Utility Protection Center (“UPC”) during business days and during the office hours of the UPC (7:00 am to 5:00 pm on business days).

3.3 The contractor shall designate the appropriate geographical grids with the UPC in order that all locate requests for the facility in the right-of-way will route to Subcontractor for field locations

3.4 The contractor shall clear each locate ticket request as mandated by UPC rules and state law and coding each ticket accordingly

3.5 The contractor shall retain and safeguard the Customer’s location maps and records. Records shall not be disclosed to or made available to any person not approved by the Customer, except as required by law.

3.6 The contractor shall maintain records appropriate to support the reporting requirements set forth below.

3.7 The contractor shall Investigate incidents of damage for accuracy of the locate(s) and submit to the Customer a written report of such investigations. Upon request, the Contractor shall give testimonial support in cases deemed necessary by the Customer.

When the plant is identifiable, but not locatable, the Contractor must contact the Customer and advise it of the situation. The Customer shall determine the course of action to be taken. If no course of action is successful, the Contractor shall notify the excavator of the presence of any identifiable, but not locatable, facilities of the Customer and caution the excavator that any location information supplied may not be within the definition of reasonable accuracy. ”Un-locatable facilities” are those under the river. The

Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield Buried Fiber Locate/Repair bore entry points at a river can be located, but Contractor may not be able to locate and “mark” the cable under water. If another utility was to bore the river, Contractor would identify to that other utility the location where the cable enters and leaves the river.

3.8 The contractor shall notify the excavator of the presence of any identifiable, but un-locatable, underground facilities of the Customer, and caution the excavator that any location information supplied may not be within the definition of reasonable accuracy.

3.9 The contractor shall notify the Customer of any discrepancies or omissions in the records or other information provided to the Contractor by the Customer to the extent such discrepancies and omissions can be determined by the Contractor.

3.10 The contractor shall repair all damage to facility that was not properly located and marked with Georgia UPC guidelines. Contractor shall respond within four (4) hours of notification of damaged facility.

3.11 The contractor shall represent the Government as the point of contact with the Georgia Department of Transportation (“DOT”) and mark location of facilities on DOT construction schematics as necessary.

3.12 Contractor shall provide written logs (in a format acceptable to Customer) on evidence of status of all tickets.

3.13 The Contractor shall maintain a copy of all written reports for a period of three (3) years.

4. Government Responsibilities:

• Shall provide to the vendor sufficient copies and updates of the maps and diagrams of the Customer’s Underground Facilities for all Excavation Sites, which maps and diagrams will reflect the most current information available to the Customer.

• Shall notify the vendor IMMEDIATELY (within 2-hours) of any damage where locating accuracy is in question, so that Contractor can conduct a thorough investigation. If not notified within 24 hours the Contractor is not responsible.

• Shall take steps necessary for the Georgia UPC to send all tickets directly to vendor and forward any direct requests for locates to UPC.

The contractor shall repair of damage to the cable by a third party is the responsibility of the South East Regional Network Enterprise Center (SE-RNEC). The Fort Stewart SE-RNEC may elect to repair the cable with any resource it may have available

Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield Buried Fiber Locate/Repair including directly engaging vendor to perform this work. Collection of compensation for damages from a third party is the responsibility of the NEC.

5. Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR): The KO will provide a COR Designation

Letter for this Contract/Task Order upon award. The Contractor shall acknowledge the COR Designation Letter in writing and return to the KO within 5 business days of receipt.

6. Inspection Of Work: Technical surveillance of workmanship and inspection of materials for work being performed under this contract will be the responsibility of the Fort Stewart NEC representative. The provision in no way authorizes anyone other than the Contracting Officer to commit the Government to changes in the terms of the contract. A Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) will be designated by letter to the individual selected with a copy furnished to the contractor.

7. Access to Protected Information. Protected information means all non-public information, including, but not limited to, trade secrets or proprietary information of other Contractors, Government source selection information, Privacy Act or personally identifiable information (PII), or any other information with distribution limited by the Government. If, during the performance of this requirement, Contractor personnel obtain access by any means to protected information, they shall not disclose, publish, divulge, release, or make known, in any manner or to any extent, the information except as necessary to carry out duties under this contract.

8. Accounting for Contractor Support. The Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army

(Manpower & Reserve Affairs) operates and maintains a secure Army data collection site where the contractor will report ALL contractor manpower (including subcontractor manpower) required for performance of this contract. The contractor is required to completely fill in all the information in the format using the following web address “https://contractormanpower.army.pentagon.mil. The required information includes: (1) Contracting Office, Contracting Officer, Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative;

(2) Contract number, including task and delivery order number; (3) Beginning and ending dates covered by reporting period; (4) Contractor name, address, phone number, e-mail address, identity of contractor employee entering data; (5) Estimated direct labor hours (including sub-contractor); (6) Estimated direct labor dollars paid this reporting period (including sub-contractor); (7) Total payments (including subcontractor); (8) Predominant Federal Service Code (FSC) reflecting services provided by contractor (and separate predominant FSC for each sub-contractor if different); (9) Organizational title associated with the Unit Identification Code (UIC) for the Army Requiring Activity (the Army Requiring Activity is responsible for providing the contractor with its UIC for the purposes of reporting this information); (10) Locations where contractor and sub-contractors perform the work (specified by zip code in the United States and nearest City, Country, when in an overseas location, using standardized nomenclature provided on website);

Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield Buried Fiber Locate/Repair

(12) Presence of deployment or contingency contract language, and, (13) Number of contractor and sub-contractor employees deployed in theater this reporting period (by country). As part of its submission, the contractor will also provide the estimated total cost (if any) incurred to comply with this reporting requirement. Reporting period will be the period of performance not to exceed 12 months ending September 30 of each government fiscal year and must be reported by 31 October of each calendar year.”