Statement of Work.pdf

STATEMENT OF WORK

PROJECT NO.

296TH PURGING

BROOKHAVEN, MS

Special Provisions and General Project Information:

1. This is a non-personnel service contract to provide tank purge and inspection services. The contractor shall purge twenty (20) 5000 gallon fuel tankers, shell and piping.

2. Project Title: 296TH TC PURGING

3. Period of Performance: The performance period is two-weeks, and all work shall be complete no later than 19 May 2024.

4. Place of Performance: Contractor’s place of performance. The contractor shall be within a fifty (50) mile radius of Brookhaven, MS. The Government will deliver and pick-up tankers to contractor’s place of performance for purging.

5. Purging (20) M967 Tankers IAW ATP 4-43.

6. The Contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to perform operations necessary for providing purging services that meet Army Technical Publication 4-43, Petroleum Supply Operations. The requestor, 296th TC, is responsible for delivery and pick up of tankers to the contractor’s location. The 296th is responsible for providing the contractor a copy of ATP 4-43 if requested.

7. The Contractor shall comply with the latest editions of appropriate standards. Including the internal cleaning of tanks to fulfil several requirements: To remove hazardous products for safe to reduce the risk of personnel during internal modification work. To aid invasive inspection procedures (e.g. non-destructive wall thickness checks) for determining the condition of the tank to ensure no cross contamination of product (F-24) provide certification of all M967 purged vehicles.

8. The Contractor shall clean fuel equipment and tanks that are being prepared for deployment or maintenance and must be vapor free.

9. The Contractor shall be fully responsible for safety measures relating to cleaning process. This includes, but not limited to the provision of adequate ventilation arrangements in confined spaces to deal with any hazardous atmospheres created by the process, the earthing and bonding of equipment and the provision of the correct personal respiratory protective equipment for the working environment.

10. The Contractor shall externally inspect tank roofs for potential corrosion problems and then by a minimum of two persons. Provision of breathing apparatus should be considered based on the tank contents and location of vents.

An inertia reel lifeline is required when areas to be inspected are not surrounded by handrails. The tank surrounds should be inspected to ascertain access possibilities, firefighting, and potential sources of ignition.

11. The Contractor must ensure purging solution is not left in the shell, piping, manifolds, valves, or other parts of the system IAW Ground Precautionary message, TACOM 94-02, Maintenance Advisory” For purging All Fuel Tankers Using a Biodegradable Purging Solution.. The unit will provide the contractor a copy of TACOM 94-02 prior the contractor beginning any work.

12. The Contractor shall ensure tanks should be emptied to the maximum extent by using normal piping system.

Where tanks cannot be emptied completely using the conventional system special measures should be considered temporary connections to low drains, the introduction to raise the product level or vacuum pumping. After the tank has been emptied all connecting pipes shall be emptied and flushed with water.

13. The Contractor shall comply will all applicable sections of 29 CFR 1910.146.

14. Clean up after Servicing: The Contractor shall ensure that all tankers are restored back into its normal configuration, operational with the earthing and bonding system reinstated, all electrical cables reconnected and tested, all instruments have been reconnected and tested, free of debris inside tank, and roof, drains and pumps clear of debris, any relief valves reconnected and tested, all apertures have been gasketed and bolted closed. Lastly all drain valves are closed with piping reconnected.

15. The Contractor will provide the unit a Certificate of Purging for each tanker as proof of work complete. The unit shall validate all work is complete prior to removing tankers from the Contractor premises.