Specifications for the MDH MALSR Painting at the Southern Illinois Airport in Carbondale IL.pdf

SPECIFICATION FAA-AJW2C15C-1509299

Paint Fiberglass LIR Poles & Support Towers

MDH MALSR Facility Southern Illinois Airport - Carbondale, IL

8/20/2020

The following specifications and advisements constitute the working portion of the contract between the Contractor and the Federal Aviation Administration, an Agency of the Federal Government. The Contracting Officer (CO) assigned to this contract shall be the only individual with authority to speak for and contractually bind the FAA. All communications, authorizations, approvals, changes, modifications, etc. involving this contract shall be with and through the CO. Any action not approved by the CO shall not bind the FAA.

Contracting Officers Representative (COR) - The Contracting Officer (CO) may assign a COR to oversee the work on the project and act as a technical point of contact. A letter dating the COR's responsibilities and authority will be issued when a COR is assigned.

Site Inspection - It is recommended that the Contractor perform a field inspection prior to bid submission in order to inform himself of the specific working conditions applicable at the site and to ascertain the correct types/amounts of work to be performed. If the bidder chooses not to visit the site, he will nevertheless be charged with knowledge of conditions that a reasonable inspection would have disclosed. Please contact facility personnel Ricky Carroll 618- 567-9774, or Niles Rigg 618-593-4543 to set up an inspection.

Submittals: Submittals (SDS, PDS, & MSDS for cleaner, primer, and paints) must be reviewed and approved previous to the start of work. Please send required submittals as outlined within this specification to the project engineer within 14 days of contract award at tim.johnson@faa.gov.

Work Hours – Work shall be performed during a scheduled work week of 40 hours. The Contractor shall furnish a statement of the number of hours, days, and times to be worked per week along with the number of persons on site.

The start and stop times shall typically be coordinated with the schedules of the FAA COR or facility personnel providing escort to minimize or prevent the need for overtime work by FAA personnel. Any work outside of this shift will be considered overtime work. The Contractor may work overtime provided the Contractor notifies the COR a minimum of 48 hours in advance of any weekend, holiday, or overtime work and the FAA has personnel and funding available to provide access to the site.

MDH MALSR

mailto:tim.johnson@faa.gov

Scheduled Outages – The work is to be planned so that the MALSR can be taken out of service for painting work on single, one day at a time, 8 hour maintenance outages. This will allow the contractor to complete work for the day and allow the MALSR system to be placed back into operation each night so that the ILS system will be available over the night or weekend if bad weather moves in. A longer-term multi-day outage may be possible if good weather is forecast, but the plan should be to anticipate the need for re-storing operation each night.

Work Sequence/Strategy - The MALSR is on the primary runway for all local traffic including an on-airport flight school that operates 7 days a week. The first 5 MALSR stations off the runway are in the Runway Safety Area (RSA) which requires that the runway be totally shut down from aircraft use anytime personnel/equipment are within the RSA working. Therefore the 5 stations inside the RSA will have to be painted quickly during short periods of low traffic volume when the FAA controllers and weather allow useage of the alternate or shorter parallel runways. The contractor and COR should contact the control tower previous to starting each day to assess if a short 2-3 hour shutdown may be possible during that days work. The contractor will focus primarily on completing the 7 stations outside the airport fence (outside the RSA) and be prepared to move quickly into the RSA to work on those poles as soon as the short term runway shutdown is approved, and then move out quickly when required. It is anticipated that with 2-3 personnel the contractor could tilt down poles at 3 or more stations at one time and complete all the prep-work in one days work period, and the possibly paint the same stations the following day. Blowing excess moisture from the structures after power washing would accelerate dry time as well to potentially allow prep and painting during the same day if the runway closure were long enough to allow adequate drying.

Site Location/Access – The site is located on and via the active operations area of the Southern Illinois Airport.

Access will be allowed only during approved work hours and along the approved access route on the maintenance access roads (no use of runways/taxisways) and per mutual agreement between the FAA COR/Air Traffic Control, Contractor, and local airport management. Per paragraph above, access inside the RSA for work will only be allowed during runway shutdown periods. Access thru the RSA on the airport (to the MALSR stations outside the fence) will only be with FAA escort and via radio communitcation approval from the Air Traffic Control Tower for each time entry is to be made into the RSA and thru the airport operations area. Specific procedures will be discussed during the pre-construction conference previous to the start of work.

Seasonal Access Issues – The work is anticipated to be scheduled for late summer or fall. If contract award is delayed, spring time scheduling may be impacted by seasonal flooding which covers most of the ground around the RAIL stations every year and often makes it inaccessible for a month or more, so actual notice to proceed likely would have to be delayed until May/June timeframe at the earliest.

Sanitary Facilities/Water - Sanitary facilities are not available at the site. The Contractor shall provide a temporary “Johnny on the Spot” – type sanitary facility for the duration of the contract to be kept outside the RSA/fence. The facility shall be kept clean, secured as necessary to keep it from blowing over, and shall be serviced weekly.

Contractor shall arrange for pick-up immediately following final approval of completed work.

Protection of Existing Property - The Contractor shall take all precautions necessary to protect the existing facilities, towers, runways/taxiways, access roads, equipment, cabling, etc. and prevent trash/debris from blowing onto the airfield or runway/taxiways during the contract. Any areas damaged by the Contractor, his employees, or any subcontractors shall be repaired by the Contractor at no additional cost to the Government. Repairs shall be approved by the COR and shall match the original. The Contractor shall provide all temporary covers, enclosures, etc..., required to protect the existing facilities.

Steel Tower Access/Lift Usage – The contractor shall submit an operations plan on how he will access the full height of each steel RAIL tower and its’ fiberglass mast to perform the required prep work and painting. The mast may be able to be painted while in the lowered position where it is inside the steel tower. If the contractor plans on using a lift to access the towers, an FAA Notice of Construction form 7460-1 form shall have to be submitted and be approved previous to start of work. Notify the CO of intent to use a lift immediately following award and height of planned lift and the FAA engineer will submit the form for approval which can take up to 60 days. If the Contractor intends to climb the towers he must submit a climbing plan for FAA approval showing proper training/certification and safety equipment and procedures for those individuals who will be climbing to perform prep work and painting.

Lead Paint – The contractor shall assume that the towers/poles contain lead based paint and shall follow all federal and state regulations for procedures and PPE for employees during prep work where old paint will be disturbed.

Drawings – The following drawings are included as part of the contract documents:

GL-D-945-13B-S1 MALSR Plan & Profile (See tower heights in table below.)

MVN-D-MALSR23-C004 MG-20 Tower Stations 2+00 thru 6+00 GL-D-945-13-2 MG-30/40 Tower Details Stations 8+00 thru 14+00 GL-D-945-13-4-S1 GP-1 Tower Details (Steel tower with telescoping fiberglass pole) Stations

16+00 thru 24+00

Tower List - The total number of each tower type are as follows:

Location (feet from end of runway)

Type Pole height (feet) Tower height

200 MG-20 9 n/a 400 MG-20 15 n/a 600 MG-20 20 n/a 800 MG-30 28 n/a 1000E MG-40 37 n/a 1000 Center MG-40 37 n/a 1000W MG-40 37 n/a 1200 MG-40 39 n/a 1400 MG-40 40 n/a Flasher #5 GP-1 Tower 20 20 Flasher #4 GP-1 Tower 20 18 Flasher #3 GP-1 Tower 20 20 Flasher #2 GP-1 Tower 20 21 Flasher #1 GP-1 Tower 20 21

Scope of Work - Work on this contract is for preparing and painting the MALSR fiberglass poles and steel towers at stations 2+00 thru 24+00 and includes the following:

1. Previous to any prep work or painting, cover/protect surfaces of different colors or that are not to be painted to prevent drippage/spillage.

2. Fiberglass masts/cross-bars and supports: Inspect all surfaces to be painted and sand/wire brush any areas of loose/chipping/flaking/chalking paint or rust down to solid surface. Spray all surfaces to be painted with low-pressure solution of PPG Prep 88 or approved equal water based alkaline cleaner diluted per manufacturer instructions per specific conditions. Thoroughly wet all surfaces and allow solution to dwell per manufacturer requirements based on surface temperature. Power wash surface to remove all traces of Prep 88 and allow to dry fully. Test surface to assure the surface pH has been neutralized (7.5 maximum). Use a leaf blower to remove excess water and accelerate drying time and then allow surface to dry minimum of 2 hours. Once surface is dry and ambient temperature is at least 5 deg.

F above the dew point (to prevent condensation on the newly painted surface), apply PPG Industries PSX 700 or approved equal Siloxane high gloss epoxy paint with brush or roller to the required surfaces. Mix 2-part components per manufacturer’s directions of 4 parts resin to 1 part cure. Color is aviation orange (P/N 90915003 - See LIR Paint Kit sheet at bottom of spec).

3. Steel RAIL Towers: Solvent clean surfaces to be painted per SSCP-SP1. Sand/wire brush all areas of rust, loose/scaled/peeling paint to remove any loose material down to solid surface.

Assume a minimum of 6 man hours of sanding prep time per steel tower. Spray/rinse off sanding residue with low-pressure solution of PPG Prep 88 (concurrent with the fiberglass mast as outlined in Item 2. above). Use a leaf blower to remove excess water and accelerate drying time and then allow surface to dry minimum of 2 hours. Once surface is dry, spot-prime any bare metal or rust with TowerPlex CC2925 or approved equal Rust Inhibitive Waterborne Primer. Allow primer to cure per manufacturer instructions and apply 2 coats of TowerPlex (or approved equal) Aviation Orange CC2920 and Aviation White CC2919 paint to match existing color bands. Paint shall be applied and allowed to dry between coats per manufacturer’s recommendations.

4. Clean and restore site to original condition.

Paint coverage estimation: According to the fiberglass pole manufacturer, each linear foot of pole length equals 1.6 SF of paintable area.

https://www.gmesupply.com/towerplex-acrylic-bonding-primer-1-gallon-pail

Photo’s:

MG-20 Tower (3)

MG-30/40 Tower w/ Stabilizers (6)

GP-1 Tower w/ retractable mast (5)

MG 20 Tower – Paint fiberglass mast, cross-bar and supports.

MG 30/40 Tower – Paint fiberglass mast, fiberglass stabilizer rods, cross-bar and supports.

Color Scheme (match existing pattern)

GP-1 Tower (5) – Paint fiberglass mast, steel platform handrails, & steel tower.