Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. The Contractor shall provide all labor, supervision, equipment, tools, fuel, supplies, traffic control, accessories, safety equipment, and incidentals, as necessary, to provide emergency debris removal services. Debris removal services will only be requested on an on-call, as needed basis during inclement weather events or emergency situations, as designated by VDOT. Scheduled or planned work is not a component of this contract. 2. Emergency debris removal is defined as cutting, clearing, pick up, removal, and disposal of any woody, vegetative, or foreign objects including, but not limited to, brush, broken limbs, broken tree stems, uprooted trees and trees with severe cracks or other severe defects, that may be blocking travel from VDOT maintained roadways and/or right of ways before, during, and after a weather or other designated event. The Contractor shall remove the debris from the roadway to reestablish the safe movement of traffic. The Contractor shall cut, clear, remove, and dispose of the debris located on or above hard or non-hard surface roadways. 3. Proper and authorized chip disposal and location of disposal sites shall be the responsibility of the Contractor. 4. Debris along the right-of-way shall be removed and properly disposed of, in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. No chips or cut debris shall be left on the right-of-way without prior written permission from the VDOT Contract Administrator or designee. 5. The Contractor shall be prepared to work before, during, and after weather events including, but not limited to, snow and ice storms, hurricanes, tropical storms, tornadoes, high wind events, floods, or any other event designated by VDOT. 6. The Contractor shall be prepared to respond with the appropriate number of crew members within two (2) hours of VDOT’s verbal or written notification.
