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Questions & Answers

1. According to Solicitation Contract Form the bid to be itemized. Both item No 0003 and Item No

0004 list the “ELECTRIC POWER AND LIGHTING” AND “SELECTIVE BUILDING

DEMOLITION” at the same FFP Interior Space renovation location. Is this a typo? If not please clarify for each item the extent of the specified works.

a. Item No 0003 is associated with all work related to renovating the interior space. Item

No 0004 refers to all work necessary to renovate/upgrade HVAC systems.

2. According to the SLAB KEY NOTES on the drawing S-102-D the slab reinforcement shall be #4

@12” EW, top and bottom. At the same time the Typical Slab on Grade Detail 2/S-502-D calls out only a single layer reinforcement.

a. Provide single layer of reinforcement per Detail 2/S-502-D.

3. The ramp width is 5’-3”, but the SD-101-D drawing is calling out for only 5’-0” wide slab removal. Besides the SD-101-D drawing doesn’t reflect the slab removal for the new slab edge per the detail 2/S-506-D, also doesn’t reflect the additional saw-cutting required to create a safety slope to excavate and build the new footings and foundations shown on the S-505-D and S-506-D drawings.

a. Width of demolition to be as needed for installation of ramp and foundation components.

Slab removal for the new slab edge per detail 2/S-506-D to be for a minimum width of

2’-6”. Provide additional saw-cutting of slab as required to create a safety slope to excavate and building the new footing and foundations as shown.

4. The 8” masonry wall’s reinforcement is missing

a. Reinforcement to be per Sections 1 & 2 of the General Notes for Reinforced Masonry on sheet S-002-D.

5. The detail 2/S-504-D is calling out for the Fire Stop system around steel beam. Please be more specific regarding the required products and basis of design.

a. Refer to detail B3/A-521 of the architectural drawings.

6. The specification section 10 14 00.10 “Exterior Signage” calling out for the new signs, but the exterior wall elevations don’t reference any exterior signs except: “Install Salvaged BLDG

Number”. Please confirm that the exterior sign works are limited to the reinstallation of the existing Building Number.

a. Confirmed. Exterior signage scope of work is limited to salvage and reinstallation of existing building numbers.

7. Neither the specification section 10 26 00 “Wall and Door Protection” or drawings provides the corner guard sizes. Are the 2”x2”x8’0”H corner guard sizes acceptable?

a. Confirmed, this is acceptable.

8. The Epoxy floor specification is missing, please provide the requirements or the basis of design.

a. Please refer to attached spec 09 67 23.13.

9. Per the detail 6/CS500 the Temporary Fence to be the Post driven into ground fence, which is a very expensive permanent type fence. Since the National Guard Base is an enclosed and a fully secured area suggesting to use the 6’-0” Temporary fence on the stands. In this case no core drilling or patching would be required. To get an idea for your convenience attaching the data sheet and a few temporary fence pictures.

a. Agree that on pavement surfaces the stands as illustrated above are acceptable. In pervious areas, the post shall be direct driven into the ground as illustrated in detail 6 on

CS500.

10. At the walkthrough had noticed that the spaces to be renovated are full with the owner’s furniture and equipment. Please confirm that prior construction the owner will be remove all furniture and equipment, the construction areas will be vacant and empty?

a. There are certain areas throughout the project that will still have furniture and equipment. Some of these areas include the built-in rolling storage racks within the Aircrew Flight Equipment Area

(Room 109), Intel (Rooms 128 and 155) and Command Post/CAT (Rooms 150, 151, 154 and 152) will remain occupied with minimal personnel and existing furnishings. Most of the other furniture and equipment will be removed, and people will be relocated. Lockers in Area 1 are the

Contractor’s responsibility to remove. Some furniture in Area 3 will remain off to the side. Every effort will be made to completely empty furniture and personnel that can be removed.

11. Could a list be provided of who the on-site vendors are for fire alarm, telecommunications, PA system, and security?

a. Contractor shall visit the site and become familiar with and confirm existing conditions as shown in Existing Conditions Note 1 on Drawing E-004. Coordinate all manufacturers with BCE.

b. Fire Alarm: Refer to Drawings FD101 and FA601. Notifier FACP with Monaco transceiver. VOIP system is AVAYA, although this may change in the near future.

c. Telecommunications: Coordinate with Base Communications Group.

d. Public Address: Refer to Drawings TN102, TN104, and TN401. Valcomm.

e. Security: Refer to Drawings TN002 and TN103. Advantor.

12. General note 4 on drawing TN002 states to use 1” rigid conduit from each data outlet to the cable tray. Also, the typical conduit to cable tray detail on drawing TN501 also indicates rigid conduit. However, section 2-5.3.2 in the unified facilities criteria for telecommunications interior infrastructure calls for EMT conduit from each outlet to the cable tray. Additionally, general note

47 on drawing E-004 states to use rigid conduit where exposed and EMT conduit where concealed. Please clarify the type of conduit to be used for telecommunications.

a. Provide EMT conduit where concealed, RGS where exposed.

13. The room finish schedule on the drawing A-701-D:

a. No floor base materials are specified for the rooms the left ROOM FINISH SCHEDULE is listed, the column is blank.

i. The wall base for these rooms will be ETR (Existing to Remain).

b. Per the finish schedule the room 108 COMM shall receive a new VCT floor, but the demolition drawings do not call out in this room for any existing floor removals.

i. New floor, wall, and wall base finishes are not required for room 108A COMM.

Demo work associated with this room is per Interior Demolition Scope Notes for

AREA-3.

c. The rooms 111, 114, 115A, 115B, and 115C are listed in the ROOM FINISH

SCHEDULE, but couldn’t be found on the floor plans

i. Please ignore these rooms as they have been removed from the scope of work.

14. There are several areas that indicate to remove, reinstall, clean and re-lamp light fixtures. Can quantities and fixture types be provided for these fixtures? It will be difficult to know how to re-lamp these fixtures without a quantity of fixtures and lamp types.

a. Contractor shall visit the site and become familiar with and confirm existing conditions as shown in Existing Conditions Note 1 on Drawing E-004. Existing lighting consists predominantly of 2’x4’, 3-lamp, recessed, prismatic, T8 fluorescent lighting fixtures.

Approximate quantity is 320. Contractor to field verify.

15. The specification section 25 10 10 “Utility Monitoring and Control System (UMCS) Front End and Integration” calling out for Supervisory Monitoring and Supervisory Control of base-wide building control systems and utility control systems

a. The bid documents don’t include the drawings related to the Utility Monitoring and

Control System (UMCS). Also, there is no a specific scope of work related to Utility

Monitoring and Control System (UMCS). Who is the current on-site Utility Monitoring and Control System (UMCS) vendors?

i. New field control hardware to be integrated into existing UMCS. Please remove sections 2.3 Computer Hardware, 2.4 Computer Software and 2.5 Uninterruptible

Power Supply from scope of work. Existing UMCS is Johnson Controls Metasys.

16. Please provide specifications for the Epoxy Flooring EF-1 as shown on Finish Schedule A-701 for rooms #165, 190, 191, and 192.

a. Please reference answer to question 8.

17. Please confirm the materials for VCT as shown on Finish Schedule on A-701. Finish legend only shows RF-1.

a. Material for rooms noted with VCT to be RF-1.

18. Please confirm if any room will have exposed concrete floors that will need to be sealed, as indicated in the finish notes.

a. Confirmed, there are no rooms that required sealed concrete floor.

19. Please confirm the paint materials for the exposed metal roof deck and metal roof joists for the new addition. Is it PE-2 Epoxy Paint for the metal roof deck and PA-1 Acrylic Latex Paint for the roof joists and any exposed structural steel, as indicated in note #8 on A-701?

a. Provide MPI paint system EXT 5.3K-G5 for exposed metal roof deck and provide MPI paint system INT 5.1R-G5 for exposed metal roof joists as shown in specification 09 90

00 – 3.13.1.

20. Please provide specifications for the wood doors.

a. Please refer to attached spec 08 14 00.

21. Please confirm the Government's expectations as far as the start of construction. RFP gives an estimated NTP for October 15, 2021. Is the Government expecting/requiring the start of the construction of the addition and site work during the winter months? How about the interior renovations - is the timing for temporary personnel relocation a factor on the schedule? We are looking to work with NYANG to provide the best value proposal, both for our general conditions, as well as your schedule. Please advise.

a. The Period of Performance for the construction phase shall be twelve months. The

Contractor shall work with the Base Civil Engineering squadron and the Base

Contracting Officer to outline/phase the project so as to provide the most inexpensive bid.

Sequencing of work is the sole responsibility of the Contractor.

22. According to the finish schedule a-701 Rooms# 111, 114, 115a, 115b, 115c are to receive carpet cpt-1. These rooms do not appear to be in the floor plan. Please advise.

a. Please reference answer to question 13c above.

23. Please clarify the existing conditions of the existing roof, where the new ballasts are to be installed - A-015 - According to CLIN #0005. Also, will there be any membrane roof scope required for this CLIN?

a. The roof is in fair condition. There is no membrane scope associated with this project, only to provide ballast. Refer to photos from August 2017.

24. Please confirm that the interior finish of the new addition (Rooms #191, 192) will be painted

CMU block, with no drywall.

a. Confirmed.

25. Please confirm the requirement on the CMU block type for the new walls at addition. A-101-D shows the wall on Col. Ln. 1.A, and the divider wall between rooms 191 and 192 each tagged

M3EA which is Ground Face CMU. The other walls for the addition are only labeled as 10”

CMU on A-311. Please confirm if the intent is to have Ground Face CMU on all interior faces of the 10" CMUs for the addition, at entire walls, top to bottom.

a. Ground Face CMU is not required for the interior faces of CMU. The interior CMU faces are to be finish painted.

26. REFERENCE: Block 10 of the SF1442 states that “A Bid Bond must be submitted with the proposal or the proposal will be rejected.” Further, Paragraph 11 on page 10 of 102 states, in part, “The bid bond is due on the date as stated on the SF1442 block 13,” which is dated 13 May

2021. QUESTION: Given that the proposal is to be submitted electronically via DOD SAFE, please clarify when / how the bid bond should be delivered.

a. Bid Bond will be submitted electronically via DoD SAFE. Please refer to Class Deviation

2020-O0016 for updated guidance with regards to signatures/notary. Submit all required documentation by 03Jun2021.

27. REFERENCE: Exhibit A, Technical Evaluation – Subfactor 1 Worksheet – Part 2, Experience

Narrative. We note that the Key Point list (Items #1 through #11) in this Exhibit A do not match the Key Point list that is provided in the Solicitation, Paragraph 2.5.2.2.1. Please advise whether we should revise the Exhibit to match the Solicitation, or whether you would prefer to issue a revised form.

a. Revise Exhibit A to match the solicitation. An updated/revised copy will be provided.

28. References tying into the existing Johnson Controls Metasys Front End. What is the current version of the Front End Metasys software? New Metasys Gen 4 Supervisory Engines require the

Front End Server software to be at Release 10.1 or newer. In an effort to provide the latest available hardware and supervisory controllers for this project we would like to confirm the current software version.

a. The current version on base is Release 8. We have an existing network controller located in the boiler room that has capacity to handle this project, and an upgrade in software is not necessary to make this project function as designed.

29. If the current server software is not at release 10.1 or newer we could discuss getting the software updated, or provide older hardware if desired by the customer. Optional: FIPS 140-2 is a U.S.

government cyber security standard that is used to approve cryptographic modules and algorithms used for encryption. At Release 11.0, we are introducing FIPS 140-2 as licensed add-on feature to the Metasys Server software products, including ADS, ADX, and OAS. This addition assures end customers that Metasys uses strong cyber security techniques to prevent unauthorized access to systems and data.

a. Software upgrade is not included within the scope of this project.

30. Will the building be vacant prior to the start of work – i.e. will we be able to work on the addition as well as Areas 1(A), 2(B) & 3(C) at the same time or will the construction be phased?

a. Please reference answer to Question 21.

31. Will sewer by-pass pumping be required when installing the sanitary sewer?

a. Yes

32. Please consider postponing the bid for at least a week.

a. Bid has been extended until 03June2021.

33. Existing electrical panel “OC”, existing electrical panel “OP-3” and existing electrical panel

“ODP” have new breakers going into them. Please provide the nameplate info for these panels

(Manufacturer / model). This info will be required to have the correct breakers quoted.

a. Contractor shall visit the site and become familiar with and confirm existing conditions as shown in Existing Conditions Note 1 on Drawing E-004.

b. Panel board OC: GE, #AQF3422MBX

c. Panel board OP-3: Eaton, Type PRL1A.

d. Panel board ODP: No nameplate. GE circuit breakers.

34. The specification for Fluid Applied Air /Vapor Barrier is missing. Please provide the Basis of

Design.

a. Please refer to attached spec 07 27 26.

35. Please provide the existing ceiling heights for the rooms not labeled with a ceiling height on

Work Area 3 on A-151. According to A-151 General Note #4 the new ceiling heights should match the existing. Namely, Rooms #154, 145, 152, 151, 150, 148, 144, 127A, 127B, 120A, 126, 125, 123, 123A, 119, 142, 140, 138, 137, 136, 135, 117A, 115, 108A, 196, 110, 109, and 197.

Also, finished ceiling heights in areas 170, 171, 175, 176, 177, and the bulkhead at Corridor 172.

a. Please refer to revised drawing A-151 Rev E.

36. Can you provide specifications for the wood doors?

a. Please refer to the answer to question 20.

37. Please clarify the required scope of work associated with drawing F-010 - Ground Floor Life

Safety Plan. Please confirm if the highlighted partitions labeled as "1 HR FIRE BARRIER" are already 1 HR Fire Barriers, and we need to maintain that level of protection with any penetrations, or if we need to upgrade those partitions to become 1 HR Fire Barriers. If so, please clarify the existing wall composition.

a. The wall partition is existing 1hr fire barrier that needs to be maintained if any new penetrations are made through the wall.

38. On the drawing A-151 there is a boilerplate note 14 regarding using a Moisture Resistant

Gypboard in Bathroom, Shower and Locker room. Neither of these rooms the floor plans show, does this note applies to the Room 173 “Helmet Cubes”?

a. No, this note does not apply to Room 173. This note applies at existing Toilet, Shower, and Locker rooms and any other wet areas that may require ceiling reconstruction in order to install new work.

39. Is the attaching walls where the masonry infill is to be installed fully grouted solid? What size is the reinforcing bars with in that masonry infill wall?

a. All cells with reinforcement to be grouted. Reinforcement to be as shown in Sections 1 and 2 of the General Notes for Reinforced Masonry on sheet S-002-D.

40. On the demolition drawings the key notes DA 07 and DA17 calling out for a Removal of Portion of Masonry Walls for the new openings. These removals would also require shoring, lintels and masonry toothing. I think these additional statements needed to be added to the key note descriptions, otherwise it could lead to the ambivalent interpretations and request for the change order.

a. The notes identified above will not be amended to provide additional statements. Refer to drawing S-504-D for details regarding new lintels at existing wall(s). Respondent is responsible for means and methods to achieve new openings in existing wall(s).

41. On drawing A-102 there is a door that is removed from the wall at 189A that does not have a wall type called out. See AD102 keynote D01 where a door is removed at Open Office #189. See A-

102 Room #189A - infill shown but no detail or wall type. Please confirm the wall type.

a. The wall partition is existing gypsum board wall with 5/8” gypsum board each side of 3-

5/8” metal studs.

42. We interpret Volume 2, Part 2 to be the Exhibit B & C Questionnaire that is being sent directly to you by the 3 project references we have chosen. Are there any additional documents to be submitted with this part?

a. No additional documentation required, but per the last paragraph in Exhibit B and C attachment one may provide additional remarks.

43. Please clarify which trees should be removed and/or protected during the demolition site work.

a. There is 1 existing apple tree, 1 maple tree, and 3 spruce trees. Pricing should include removal of all 5 trees. The apple tree may be protected and preserved, if possible, after area is marked out. Coordination with the COR will occur to make this determination.

44. At the new addition the floor plan A101 identified the partition and the column line 1A wall as a wall type M3EA- which is 10” ground face masonry wall. At the same time the floor plan does not identify the wall type for the other exterior walls (column line BB, 2A and AA), besides the wall legends for these exterior walls differ than the M3EA wall legends. Please provide the missing wall type (s) for the walls along column line BB, 2A and AA.

a. Refer to Wall sections 1, 2, and 3 on A-311 for exterior wall makeup along column lines

2A, 1A and BB.