Q_and _A from 30 Dec 2020 McChord.pdf

Q&A from 30 Dec 2020

1) The proposal only lists that the quotes are to be valid for 30 days after the submittal date (page 45, item (c)); however, there is no mention that I have found concerning the anticipated award date. Can you provide this information for bidders to adequately quote any travel related expenses?

Answer: The offerors can expect that award will be within the 30 days we are asking them to hold quotes for.

2) Can you clarify if both Tanks 42003-5 and J12185 will be out of service at the same time for a single mobilization or if a staggered timeline is required? It is understood that the period of performance is 270 days post award.

Answer: The tanks will be taken out of service at separate times, this will need to be coordinated by the KTR with the installation and USACE PM.

3) Where would the fuel be transferred and what is the approximate distance?

Answer: The initial transfer will be sent to the adjacent tank, approx. 100 ft away.

4) Will this transfer be done via vacuum truck or existing pumps and piping? Means and methods should be determined by the KTR.

Answer: The transfer will done both by use of the existing pump, and in the past pumped into one of our refueling units, which will be isolate and upon passing a QC sample returned to our operating stock, then finished with a vacuum truck.

5) Can you confirm where site personnel will set the pan legs in tanks 42003-5 and J12185 during initial draw down or will the setting need to be accomplished by the contractor during fuel transfer?

Answer: Both tanks: The legs are set at 6’.

6) How many shell manways are present and what size are they?

Answer:

J12185: There are 3 manways each 44”.

42003-5 that is a tank on our site. There are 2 shell manways they are 41” in diameter

7) Is electricity and water available on site for cleaning crew usage? If so, can you provide the utility rates?

Answer: Both water and electricity are available, I do not have the information for the utility rates, my apologies.

Tank 42003-5: There is electricity and water available, but you may have to string allot of extension cord to use it, possibly several hundred feet (Note; it is only household current). As for water there is a fire hydrant next to the tank containment you are probably talking a couple of hundred feet of hose from there. The next closest water from a standard facet (one that will accept a garden hose) is about 500’ away. If you use the fire hydrant you may have to get permission, we can’t get that permission for you would have to talk the QAE (Quality Assurance

Evaluator) He is the work oversight person for the government. We can pump the tank down to a point where it will break suction at that point there will be several thousand gallons of product left it is hard to determine the exact amount that will be left in there. In the past the Air Force provided a tank truck and defuled the remaining product. That would be up to them if they want to do that because it involves removing an asset they use for daily operations and commit it to sucking up what water, and dirt, rust that is left in there with the remaining fuel in the tank bottom. This is a fairly small tank, and the tank bottom had roughly 2 to 2.5K left it that had to be removed the last time this was done.