Specifications include, but are not limited to: the sale and use of industrial, liquid, scientific, and specialty gases. • All delivery personnel must have experience delivering the types of gases included in this contract directly into laboratories. Dock delivery or delivery into a staging room or area does not qualify. • Delivery personnel must be properly trained and have working experience in filling cylinders with liquefied gases. • When in a WC facility or on WC grounds, the vendor’s delivery staff must at all time wear a uniform which displays the company name. • The vendor’s delivery personnel will be provided WC ID badges at no charge to the vendor. The badges must be displayed on their person at all time when on WC grounds or in a WC facility and must not be displayed at any other time. The vendor is responsible for returning badges of personnel whose employment is terminated for any reason within 24 hours of termination to the Contract Manager. • The WC reserves the right to reject any employee of the contractor at any time and require their immediate replacement with staff acceptable to the WC Contract Manager. The contractor will provide the qualifications and experience of the driver assigned Vendor must have and use a barcode or like tracking system for all cylinders delivered to and returned from the WC. • Hours of service will be 8:00AM to 3:00PM, Monday through Friday, excluding New York State holidays. Emergency orders will be an exception, but in general the contractor shall not enter any WC facility outside of these hours. • All gas orders the vendor receives by 4:30PM must be delivered the next business day. • Gas cylinders deliveries will be made directly to the room specified and placed exactly as indicated by the end-user. • Gas cylinders must be rotated forward and delivered cylinders must be placed behind cylinders already on hand. The vendor’s delivery personnel shall not move cylinders attached to equipment. • End users must sign for the delivery of each cylinder. Except in emergency cases, signatures should not be obtained from WC Receiving Unit staff. Two (2) copies of signed delivery slips will be required for each delivery. One will be provided to the enduser and the other to the designated person in the Receiving Unit at each facility. • Empty or unwanted cylinders will be picked up by the contractor when full cylinders are delivered or upon request by the WC Contract Manager or designee. • The transition period during which the previous vendor’s cylinders will be in the WC facilities will be significant. The vendor awarded this contract will be responsible for moving the previous vendor’s empty cylinders from the laboratories/work areas and delivering them to and safely securing them in a designated staging area at each facility. This will be done each time the delivery person sees a cylinder marked as empty and whenever a request is received from the WC Contract Manager or designee. • Emergency delivery of any of the gases in the contract must be provided within three (3) hours of emergency notification. Historically, during the last four (4) year period, no emergency deliveries have been requested or provided. • All deliveries will be F.O.B. destination.