Vendor Questions and Answers.pdf

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# QUESTION

Applicable to which section?

(Solicitation Page Number and Paragraph)

DEPARTMENT's RESPONSE/ANSWER

What is the actual SQ Ft of each floor that would need painting for Orlando CSP Service Center – Phase 2 because I was given the BID paper work just need to know exact blue prints to help with biding

3.1, pg. 6 The Child Support Service Center North Tower

1st Floor 4,520 Sq Ft, and North Tower 9th Floor 7,372 Sq Ft, for a total of 11,892 Sq Ft.

2 Am I able to schedule an appointment to visit prior to the to the open bid day? I would like the opportunity to bid. 4.2.6.1, pg. 9

The site visit is a Mandatory Responsive Requirement. Vendors are not able to reschedule the site visit.

How I may obtain a FDOR Bidder Acknowledgment Form?

pg. 1 The bidder acknowledgement form is page 1 of the ITB.

4 What is the start date of the project? 2.5, pg 5

The term of the services shall be from the date of issuance of a Purchase Order. Contractor will complete all tasks within 5 weeks from

Order start date.

If the project is during holidays such as Thanksgiving or Christmas which both fall on work week days, will there be access to work on those days?

3.2, pg. 6

Service Times: Services under this Contract must be provided Monday through Sunday from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Depending upon staff availability, eastern standard time, excluding state holidays.

Completion is 5 weeks, Monday to friday 8-5pm BUT if holiday is during that five weeks does that day? or two? get added to end of job, such as Christimas day which is a Monday, so we lose the one work day, do we get that extra day on the end of job so 5 weeks and one day?

3.2, pg. 6 Please refer to answer to question 5.

Can we do the back ground checks on employees AFTER we win the project vs spending money on all the background checks and not winning the project?

3.5, pg 6

All staff must complete the background check through the Department of Management

Services prior to beginning work.

8 Are we to fill all nail holes? 3.1, pg.6

Repair all drywall/wall damage. Fill and sand nail holes, complete construction repairs to unsightly bulges in walls, and adhesives removal, for painting. This will include all walls in main areas and offices

Are we are to remove any screws left in wall and fill those holes also OR do we leave the screws as something is going back right in that exact same place?

3.1, pg. 6 Please refer to answer to question 8. This includes screws.

10 Are the square footages in the bid true wall square footages for painting correct? NOT the floor square footage? 3.1, pg. 6 The square footage listed in 3.1 is the floor square footage

Will your I.T. team disconnect the computers/equipment from the machines so we can slide the furniture away from the walls and the reconnect them?

Yes. Our IT Team will not allow anyone else to handle the Department of Revenue IT equipment.

Do we remove the switch plates and put them back on? Are you getting new plates to put on at end of job? If new plates will we put them on or you?

3.1, pg 6

Remove all furniture and wall fixtures for painting access and replace all furniture and wall fixtures after painting is complete.

13 Will all the metal file cabinets be empty so we can pull from the wall and then push back against the wall. The filing cabinets will not be emptied.

Will all the boxes still be in the rooms? Or are they getting removed prior to starting? Will we have to move them and move them back if they are staying?

If this question is in reference copy paper, the paper temporarily stored in the North Tower 1st floor room has been used. Painters will remove all furniture and wall fixtures for painting access and replace all furniture and wall fixtures after painting is complete- not boxes

All walls are wallpaper, so any finishing, repairs, holes filled, bottom of walls where it has already been removed, will not match, correct?

3.1, pg 6

Please refer to section 3.1. All metal window casings,door trim to metal doorways, and all walls in hallways are to be painted. Everything will be the same color after the job is complete.

16 Will we be responsible for the old paint on the trim we are not painting? 3.1, and 3.4, pg 6

Please refer to section 3.1. All the door trim and window casings are to be painted. Please refer to 3.4, the paint specified is the same color.

Will we take the blinds out and back in, or will those be removed prior by someone else? Are the same blinds going back up, or new ones?

The vendor removed the blinds on the first phase of this painting project. We would ask the vendor to do the same for phase two as well.

Some of the panels with wallpaper have bubbles of the paper away from the panel in the middle of the wallpaper/panel, not on the sides. There is no way to put glue behind that wallpaper, as it is in the middle of the panel and all the sides are still glued down, how do we repair that?

Repair all drywall/wall damage. Fill and sand nail holes, complete construction repairs to unsightly bulges in walls, and adhesives removal, for painting. This will include all walls in main areas and offices

ON the bottom of some walls the wallpaper was cut/removed near the cover trim. Do we use mud and and spray texture? The wallpaper has a textured surface and so there is no way to match that where it has been cut/removed around the bottom of some walls.

3.1, pg. 6

Repair all drywall/wall damage. Fill and sand nail holes, complete construction repairs to unsightly bulges in walls, and adhesives removal, for painting. This will include all walls in main areas and offices

Are we painting the aluminum trim in the middle of some of the panels that connects to some trim around the ceiling, which connects to the ceiling grid.

3.1, pg 6

Repair all drywall/wall damage. Fill and sand nail holes, complete construction repairs to unsightly bulges in walls, and adhesives removal, for painting. This will include all walls in main areas and offices

Are we using mud to patch where there are scratches/tears in the wallpaper about desk height? The wallpaper has a textured surface so there is no way to match/patch that 100% without removing the whole panel of wallpaper and putting up new wallpaper.

3.1, pg 6

Repair all drywall/wall damage. Fill and sand nail holes, complete construction repairs to unsightly bulges in walls, and adhesives removal, for painting. This will include all walls in main areas and offices

22 Does the tv rack stay in place, get removed and put back up?

The TV rack could remain in place if Painters would make use of a paint cloth and/or painter's tape to cover and protect the rack from paint spatter.

23 Is it possible to schedule a site visit?

Section 1, pg. 4;

and 4.2; 4.2.6.1,

pg. 9

Section 1 gives the definition of Mandatory Responsiveness Requirements. The site visit was one of the mandatory responsiveness requirements. If your company did not participate in the site visit you will be unable to bid on the project.

24 Is the painting only the interior of the 1st and 9th floor ? 3.1, pg. 6 1st Floor 4,520 Sq Ft, and North Tower 9th Floor 7,372 Sq Ft, for a total of 11,892 Sq Ft