Request for apprentice waiver

This procurement is a Request for Apprentice Waiver submitted to the Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration, Office of the State Architect, related to Project Number 2019-097M21, titled "Refurbish Ash Conveyor System, Heat Plant, Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo Ph2." The procuring agency is the Colorado Department of Human Services, with the general contractor being DC Power Industrial Projects LLC and the subcontractor A-Var Electric Inc, located at 30 Greenhorn Drive, Pueblo, Colorado 81004. The services being procured involve electrician trade work required for the ash conveyor system and heat plant refurbishment project. The waiver was submitted on December 3, 2024, by Stanford Lee, State Buildings Program Delegate, and subsequently approved by Kathleen Miller at the Office of the State Architect on that same date. This waiver must be submitted to the Office of the State Architect prior to contract execution, with the posting date of February 6, 2025. The waiver was approved based on two qualifying justifications: the absence of responsive, eligible subcontractors who bid on the project for the listed electrical trades, and the lack of a responsive, eligible apprenticeship program within a 50-mile one-way radius of the project location in Pueblo.

The waiver request specifically addresses Colorado's apprenticeship requirements and provides an exemption from standard apprenticeship compliance mandates for this particular project. The approval of both waiver justifications confirms that the project may proceed without meeting the standard Colorado apprenticeship requirements that would otherwise apply to this electrician trade work. No specific budget range or award value is documented in the waiver request materials. The document does not indicate any set-aside designations, disadvantaged enterprise restrictions, incumbent vendors, or specific technological integration requirements. The waiver serves as authorization for the contractor and subcontractor to move forward with project execution while acknowledging the documented unavailability of qualified apprenticeship resources in the specified geographic area and the lack of responsive eligible bidders for the apprenticeship requirements.