Unalakleet River Scope of Work - FY2024.pdf

SPECIFICATIONS FOR UNALAKLEET RIVER ENTRANCE BUOYS FOR FY 2024

June 1, 2024 through June 1, 2025

SPECIFICATIONS FOR UNALAKLEET RIVER ENTRANCE BUOYS

1. Provide all labor and materials to prepare, moor, maintain on station, remove, store for the winter, and turn over to the next contractor on or about

15 April 2025, six Coast Guard furnished buoys at the entrance to the Unalakleet

River in accordance with these specifications. Set the buoys on 1 June 2024 or as soon thereafter as ice conditions permit and remove them on 1 November 2024 or earlier if ice conditions require. The buoys shall be installed by a competent person who has local knowledge of the location of the most desirable channel for the largest vessels that transit the area. Moor the buoys in positions that best mark that channel.

2. Moor the buoys with a contractor supplied mooring system of sufficient size and strength to insure that the buoy remains in position and allows for the maximum tide and swell combination.

3. Use Coast Guard furnished plastic/foam buoys. Clean all buoys as necessary before installation. Number and mark with Coast Guard furnished numerals end retro-reflective tape, as shown on the enclosed drawing "Markings for Coast

Guard Furnished Buoys".

a. Use three red nun buoys to mark the right hand side of the channel entering from seaward. Number them 2, 4 and 6, with numbers increasing from seaward.

Mark with red retro-reflective tape.

b. Use three green can buoys to mark the left hand side of the channel entering from seaward. Number them 1, 3 and 5, with numbers increasing from seaward. Mark with green retro-reflective tape.

4. Replace on station within 72 hours of discovery, any buoy that is destroyed, lost, dragged, or otherwise removed from its established position. If the buoy cannot be replaced within the 72 hours specified, notify the Seventeenth Coast

Guard District Office of Waterways Management at (907) 463-2262 during normal working hours, or call the 24 hour Duty Officer in Juneau at (907) 463-2000.

When the buoy is restored to its proper position, promptly notify the Coast

Guard again.

5. Partial payments for the contract will made as follows:

a. 30% for preparing and installing the buoys at the beginning of the navigation season, and making notification.

b. 50% for maintaining and removing the buoys at the end of the navigation season, and making notification.

c. 20% for storing and turning over the buoys to the next year's contractor on or about 15 April 2024, and making notification.

6. When the buoys are installed at the beginning of the season the contractor will perform the following tasks:

a. Ascertain each buoy’s mooring (anchor to sea floor, chain/line at short stay)

GPS position once installed by any available means. (Electronic Chart Display, hand-held GPS, smart phone, etc…)

b. Within 24 hours, notify the Seventeenth Coast Guard District Office of

Waterways Management by telephone at (907) 463-2262 or the 24 hour Duty Officer in Juneau at (907) 463-2000 of buoy(s) installment and GPS mooring positions obtained.

b. Mark the locations of the buoys on the Coast Guard furnished charts of the area and post one copy in a suitable public place in Unalakleet.

c. Send a copy of the marked chart to:

Commanding Officer

D17 Waterways Branch Management (dpw)

907 West 8th St. Rm645A

Juneau, AK 99802

ATTN: BMC Richard Sargent

d. Request payment of the contract price by sending each original invoice to the

Coast Guard Finance Center at the following address or by submitting electronically at https://www.fincen.uscg.mil/webinvoices/webinv_start.htm :

Commercial Invoices

USCG Finance Center

1430A Kristina Way

Chesapeake, Virginia, 23326

e. Send a copy of your invoice and a copy of the chart showing the location of the buoys to the Seventeenth Coast Guard District Office of Waterways Management at the following address:

Commander (dpw)

Seventeenth Coast Guard District

PO Box 25517

Juneau, AK 99802-5517

Attn: CATON

7. When the buoys are removed the contractor will perform the following tasks:

a. Within 24 hours, notify the Seventeenth Coast Guard District Office of

Waterways Management by telephone at (907) 463-2262 or the 24 hour Duty Officer in Juneau at (907) 463-2000.

b. Request your second payment of 50% of the contract price by sending the original invoice to the Coast Guard Finance Center at the address listed in paragraph 6.d. above.

https://www.fincen.uscg.mil/webinvoices/webinv_start.htm

c. Send a letter to the Seventeenth Coast Guard District Office of Waterways

Management advising the Coast Guard the condition of the buoys and other government furnished equipment. Include a copy of your invoice with your letter. Send this letter to the address given in paragraph 6.e. above.

8. When the 2024 contract has been awarded, on or about 15 April 2024, the contractor will perform the following tasks:

a. Request your final payment for previous years contract of 20% of the contract price by sending the original invoice to the Coast Guard Finance Center at the address listed in paragraph 6.d. above.

b. Notify the Seventeenth Coast Guard District Office of Waterways Management in writing that the buoys have been stored for the winter and, if there is a different contractor, that the buoys and equipment have been transferred to the new contractor. Include a copy of your invoice with your letter. Send this letter to the address given in paragraph 6.e. above.

Encl: (1) Drawing "Markings for Coast Guard Furnished Buoys"