S208--Atrium Botanical Maintenance

Questions and Answers for RFQ 36C25023Q0002

Question: Do you have an approximation on the amount of hours your current provider spends per week in the atriums?

Answer: No.

Question: What is currently being used to treat pests and how frequently is it being performed?

Answer: The contractor would only be allowed to service the atrium planting areas. Contractor would provide Chief of Environmental Management Services all Pest Controller licenses and updated training record annually, and they must maintain a pest control treatment log in the EMS office in the lower level. Anytime the contractor wants to add a chemical they have to submit the label to the EMS office for review and the department needs two weeks to respond. The contractor must submit an updated chemical inventory list anytime they remove or add chemicals and validate that inventory annually. Also, the contractor shall not store any pesticides on station.

Question: Do you require the technician who would be servicing / anyone from our team who would be doing work on site to be fully vaccinated?

Answer: See Statement of Work, VHA Supplemental Contract Requirements for Ensuring Adequate COVID-19 Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors (Amended October 25, 2021)

Question: We noticed on the inventory that Bromeliads were listed (last line), but we didn't recall seeing any on site. Just wondering if we missed those plants somewhere, or if we should disregard?

Answer: Please disregard that particular plant.

Question: Would our team be allowed to perform any pest treatment? If so, to what extent and what types of products are/are not allowed?

Answer:

DETROIT VA PEST PRODUCTS

Product Name

Active Ingredients

EPA Reg Number

Cy-kick

Cyfluthrin 0.1%

EPA: 499-470

Onslaught Fastcap

Esfenvalerate 6.4% Piperonyl butoxide 8% Prallethrin 1.6%

EPA: 1021-2574

Gourmet ant bait

Boron sodium oxide (B8Na2O13), tetrahydrate (12280-03-4) 6%

EPA: 73766-1

Advion Ant Bait

Indoxacarb 0.05%

EPA: 100-1498

Alpine Roach Gel

Dinotefuran 0.5%

EPA: 499-507

Detex Rodent Bait

Not Toxic

N/A

Glue Board

N/A

N/A

Sleep Tight bedbug spray

Gerinol 1%

N/A

Maxforce Complete

Hydramethylnon 1%

EPA: 432-1255

Taurus

Fipronil 9.1%

EPA: 53883-279

Tempo

beta-Cyfluthrin 11.8%

EPA: 432-1363

Invade Bio Bullet

Microbes

N/A

Gentrol

(S)-Hydroprene 0.36%

EPA: 2724-484

Gentrol Point Source

(S)-Hydroprene 90.6%

EPA: 2724-469

Cimexa Dust

Silicon dioxide 92.1%

EPA: 73079-12

Tempo Dust

Cyfluthrin 1%

EPA: 432-1373

Invite fruit fly lure

N/A

N/A

Intice Ant Bait

Borax (B4Na2O7.10H2O) 5%

EPA: 73079-9

Maxforce FC

Fipronil 0.001%

EPA: 432-1264

Gentrol concentrate

(S)-Hydroprene 9%

EPA: 2724-351

Alpine fly bait

Dinotefuran 1%

EPA:499-568

Maxforce Quantum

Imidacloprid 0.03%

EPA:432-1506

Contrac rodent bait block

Bromadiolone 0.005%

EPA:12455-79

Crossfire Aerosol

Clothianidin 0.40%, Metofluthrin 0.01%, Piperonyl Butoxide 1.00%

EPA:1021-2788

Nibor-D

Boron sodium oxide (B8Na2O13), tetrahydrate (12280-03-4) 98%

EPA:64405-8

Sensci Bedbug Monitor

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HERBICIDES

Tri state foliage wonder

Polyethylene glycol monolauryloxy 4%

Tru-green

Shaw's turf food and crabgrass control barricade

Barricade®, Prodiamine 0.20-.050% by weight

EPA: 8378-38,-39,-40,-56

Tru Power 3

Triisopropanolamine salt, Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid 47.77%

EPA: 228-551

Dimethylamine salt ofr-2-propionic acid 7.74%

Dicamba Acid 3.20%

Barricade Herbicide

Prodiamine 40.7%

EPA:100-1139