OSR North Jetter Service's Open End

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Special Reclamation, is soliciting bids for an open-end, continuing contract to provide jetter truck services across eleven northern West Virginia counties, including Barbour County. The procurement seeks a sewer cleaning jetter truck operation with a qualified operator and one additional laborer to perform pipe cleaning and maintenance services on previously completed environmental reclamation projects. The required equipment must deliver fifty-five gallons per minute at two thousand pounds per square inch with a five thousand PSI burst pressure, equipped with a minimum five hundred feet of one-inch inside diameter hose, a one thousand gallon tank capacity, three different cleaning heads (standard, rotating, and vibration), a lifting arm, a fifty-foot handgun hose, and Department of Transportation-compliant safety equipment. The contractor must be available seven days per week and typically complete work within thirty days of receiving a Notice to Proceed through work directives issued by the Agency. Pipelines are considered complete when ninety-five percent of the volume has been restored, with all debris removed and disposed of in designated on-site areas. The contractor must include all equipment, labor, materials, mileage, and travel costs in the hourly rate bid with no separate reimbursement by the Agency, and must comply with all applicable local, state, and federal environmental and occupational health and safety regulations. The solicitation closed on September 23, 2020, at 10:30 a.m., with a technical questions deadline of September 14, 2020, and all bids were required to be submitted electronically through the wvOASIS Vendor Self Service system.

The procurement does not specify set-aside designations for disadvantaged enterprises in the available documentation, and no incumbent vendors or current contractors are identified. Bidders must hold a valid West Virginia contractor's license and submit the license number with their bid, maintain commercial general liability insurance with minimum limits of $1,000,000 for bodily injury and property damage per occurrence, and submit workers' compensation and employers' liability insurance documentation. All bids must be accompanied by a five percent solicitation bond, and contractors must submit a signed and notarized drug-free workplace affidavit and a procurement affidavit certifying compliance with delinquency and default requirements under West Virginia Code. Individual work directives may not exceed $25,000, with the initial contract term set for one calendar year and two optional successive one-year renewal periods available upon mutual written consent and approval by the Attorney General's office, with total contract payments capped at $500,000 including all renewals. The contract establishes firm pricing for the life of the agreement, and payment is made in arrears only after delivery and acceptance of services, with invoices required to be submitted within thirty days of work completion for each individual project.