Well abandonment

The South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control (DHEC) has issued a solicitation for well abandonment services targeting underground storage tank (UST) system facilities statewide, with specific focus on Richland County. This procurement seeks a contractor to perform monitoring well and bored water supply well abandonment services across various regulated UST sites. The contract is structured as an indefinite delivery contract with an initial one-year term and two potential one-year renewal periods, estimated to commence on July 23, 2021, and conclude on July 22, 2024. Eligible contractors must be South Carolina Certified UST Site Rehabilitation Contractors under the SUPERB Site Rehabilitation and Fund Access Regulation. The scope involves abandoning approximately 29 sites annually, encompassing 9,932 feet of one to two-inch monitoring wells, 314 feet of four to six-inch monitoring wells, and 680 feet of eight-inch bored water supply wells. Contractors must submit unit pricing for equipment mobilization, personnel mobilization, well abandonment, and pump removal services. A non-mandatory pre-bid conference will be held on May 27, 2021, at 10:00 AM ET via Microsoft Teams, with proposal submissions due online by June 15, 2021, at 2:30 PM ET. Award will be made to the lowest responsible bidder based on comprehensive unit pricing.

The solicitation is exclusively open to South Carolina Certified UST Site Rehabilitation Contractors, with no specific set-aside designations for disadvantaged enterprises mentioned. Contractors must maintain an approved Annual Contractor Quality Assurance Plan and comply with DHEC's Quality Assurance Program Plan Revision 4.0. The contract requires contractors to accept a minimum of five abandonment requests per month and complete each abandonment within 60 days of acceptance. Performance is subject to a three-strike notification process, with potential contract termination and one-year debarment from UST-related solicitations for repeated failures. While no explicit budget range is provided, the previous contract period suggests substantial annual work volume. Contractors must ensure all work adheres to South Carolina Well Standards and be overseen by a currently licensed South Carolina Certified Well Driller. Payment will be processed within 90 days of successful technical report and invoice submission, with potential late fees of $25 per day for missed deadlines, not exceeding 20 percent of the total contract value.