MODIFICATION
Y -- Grease trap system replacement for building
- Notice Date
- 12/4/2007
- Notice Type
- Modification
- NAICS
- 237110
— Water and Sewer Line and Related Structures Construction
- Contracting Office
- Department of Veterans Affairs;VAMC Northampton;Acquisitions-001A;421 North Main Street;Leeds MA 01053-9764
- ZIP Code
- 01053-9764
- Solicitation Number
- VA-241-08-RQ-0046
- Response Due
- 12/28/2007
- Archive Date
- 2/26/2008
- Point of Contact
- Jane LaBorde Contract Specialist 413-584-4040 ext. 2404
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to VAMC CONTRACTING OFFICER
(JANE.LABORDE@VA.GOV)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned
- Description
- VA-241-08-RQ-0046 VAMC NORTHAMPTON GREASE TRAP SERVICE AMENDMENT 2 1. In solicitation clause 52.228-1 (c ) add: bid bond amount to read 20%. 2. Add the following clauses 52.228-13 -- Alternative Payment Protections.Alternative Payment Protections (Jul 2000) (a) The Contractor shall submit one of the following payment protections: I Payment Bond; II Irrevocable letter of credit; III Tripartite escrow agreement (b) The amount of the payment protection shall be 100 percent of the contract price. (c) The submission of the payment protection is required within __10_ days of contract award. (d) The payment protection shall provide protection for the full contract performance period plus a one-year period. (e) Except for escrow agreements and payment bonds, which provide their own protection procedures, the Contracting Officer is authorized to access funds under the payment protection when it has been alleged in writing by a supplier of labor or material that a nonpayment has occurred, and to withhold such funds pending resolution by administrative or judicial proceedings or mutual agreement of the parties. (f) When a tripartite escrow agreement is used, the Contractor shall utilize only suppliers of labor and material that signed the escrow agreement. (End of Clause) 52.228-15 -- Performance and Payment Bonds -- Construction (Nov 2006) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause -- "Original contract price" means the award price of the contract; or, for requirements contracts, the price payable for the estimated total quantity; or, for indefinite-quantity contracts, the price payable for the specified minimum quantity. Original contract price does not include the price of any options, except those options exercised at the time of contract award. (b) Amount of required bonds. Unless the resulting contract price is $100,000 or less, the successful offeror shall furnish performance and payment bonds to the Contracting Officer as follows: (1) Performance Bonds (Standard Form 25). The penal amount of performance bonds at the time of contract award shall be 100 percent of the original contract price. (2) Payment Bonds (Standard Form 25-A). The penal amount of payment bonds at the time of contract award shall be 100 percent of the original contract price. (3) Additional bond protection. (i) The Government may require additional performance and payment bond protection if the contract price is increased. The increase in protection generally will equal 100 percent of the increase in contract price. (ii) The Government may secure the additional protection by directing the Contractor to increase the penal amount of the existing bond or to obtain an additional bond. (c) Furnishing executed bonds. The Contractor shall furnish all executed bonds, including any necessary reinsurance agreements, to the Contracting Officer, within the time period specified in the Bid Guarantee provision of the solicitation, or otherwise specified by the Contracting Officer, but in any event, before starting work. (d) Surety or other security for bonds. The bonds shall be in the form of firm commitment, supported by corporate sureties whose names appear on the list contained in Treasury Department Circular 570, individual sureties, or by other acceptable security such as postal money order, certified check, cashier's check, irrevocable letter of credit, or, in accordance with Treasury Department regulations, certain bonds or notes of the United States. Treasury Circular 570 is published in the Federal Register or may be obtained from the: U.S. Department of Treasury Financial Management Service Surety Bond Branch 3700 East West Highway, Room 6F01 Hyattsville, MD 20782 Or via the internet at http://www.fms.treas.gov/c570/ . (e) Notice of subcontractor waiver of protection (40 U.S.C. 3133(c)). Any waiver of the right to sue on the payment bond is void unless it is in writing, signed by the person whose right is waived, and executed after such person has first furnished labor or material for use in the performance of the contract. (End of Clause) 52.228-16 Performance and Payment Bonds -- Other Than Construction (Nov 2006) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause -- "Original contract price" means the award price of the contract or, for requirements contracts, the price payable for the estimated quantity; or for indefinite-quantity contracts, the price payable for the specified minimum quantity. Original contract price does not include the price of any options, except those options exercised at the time of contract award. (b) The Contractor shall furnish a performance bond (Standard Form 1418) for the protection of the Government in an amount equal to _100__ percent of the original contract price and a payment bond (Standard Form 1416) in an amount equal to __100_ percent of the original contract price. (c) The Contractor shall furnish all executed bonds, including any necessary reinsurance agreements, to the Contracting Officer, within __10__ days, but in any event, before starting work. (d) The Government may require additional performance and payment bond protection if the contract price is increased. The Government may secure additional protection by directing the Contractor to increase the penal amount of the existing bonds or to obtain additional bonds. (e) The bonds shall be in the form of firm commitment, supported by corporate sureties whose names appear on the list contained in Treasury Department Circular 570, individual sureties, or by other acceptable security such as postal money order, certified check, cashier's check, irrevocable letter of credit, or, in accordance with Treasury Department regulations, certain bonds or notes of the United States. Treasury Circular 570 is published in the Federal Register, or may be obtained from the: U.S. Department of Treasury Financial Management Service Surety Bond Branch 3700 East West Highway, Room 6F01 Hyattsville, MD 20782 Or via the internet at http://www.fms.treas.gov/c570/ . (End of Clause)
- Place of Performance
- Address: VAMC NORHTAMPTON BLDG 5;421 N MAIN ST;LEEDS MA
- Zip Code: 01053
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 01053
- Record
- SN01462873-W 20071206/071204223601 (fbodaily.com)
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