a) Provide a minimum of three (3) mechanical street sweepers, a minimum of three (3) equipment operators, supplies, supervision as needed to complete the work within the contract time limits, and support in the form of the trucking of street dirt to an EPA approved disposal site. b) Provide mechanical street sweepers that can sweep on both the right hand and left hand curbs, while aimed and traveling in the direction of traffic. c) Have a backup sweeper available at all times, to be used in the event one of the sweepers in use should become non-operational for some reason. The sweepers, for main use and backup, at the time of bidding shall not be more than three (4) years old, or the sweeper units shall have been completely rebuilt within eighteen (18) months, before the date of the bid opening. d) Furnish a sweeper unit with dual gutter brooms, and a main broom together with the gutter brooms capable of sweeping a minimum of nine (9) foot wide path in one pass along the curb. (The sweepers shall be equipped in accordance with existing state law and be equipped with a flashing light; which is visible for a minimum of one mile; has a flashing rate of sixty to ninety times per minute; is mounted for three hundred sixty degrees visibility; and have an amber lens.) e) Provide all fuel and mechanical maintenance of the sweepers. f) Provide off street right-of-way storage for the sweeper, if sites offered by the City on City property for over night parking of the sweeper, are not acceptable to the Contractor. g) Shall collect, transport and dispose of all street sweeping materials to an approved landfill. All cost associated with disposal of street sweeping shall be included in the unit price per ton for material disposed, including testing of the material. Disposal shall be as per Federal, State, and Local regulations. The Contractor shall provide the City with chain of custody documentation for removed materials. The Contractor shall provide copies of all manifest to the City for record. h) Furnish all traffic safety devices to protect the sweeper and the public, as recommended for moving operations, in the Ohio Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, latest edition on the date of first advertising for bids, for the type of street or road where the sweeper is working. i) Use the street zone map, furnished with the contract documents, to keep the Engineer informed of the locations being sweep on a given day, and to keep a record of completed of work. j) Provide a combination of mechanical and hand sweeping, as needed to collect all surface street dirt at key intersections. This includes the median paved areas and the open pavement areas, where traffic does not normally travel, and which may not be next to a curb face. The key intersections include: 1) West Avenue and Oberlin Road 2) Middle Avenue and Oberlin Road 3) Gateway Blvd. and West River Road South (at south intersection) 4) Gateway Blvd. and Third Street 5) Gateway Blvd. and Second Street 6) Gateway and West River Road North (at north intersection) 7) Gateway Blvd. and West Bridge Street 8) Gateway Blvd. and Fremont Street 9) West River Road and Fremont Street 10) Gateway Blvd. and Lake Avenue 11) Lorain Blvd. and Lake Avenue 12) Huron Street and Lowell Street 13) Lake Avenue and Woodland Avenue 14) S.R. 113 and Lake Avenue 15) S.R. 57, S.R. 113, and Lorain Blvd. 16) S.R. 57 and Bell Avenue 17) S.R. 57 and Warden Avenue 18) S.R. 57 and Midway Blvd. 19) S.R. 57 and Griswold Road 20) S.R. 57 and Beechwood Drive 21) West River Road and Griswold Road 22) West River Road and Midway Blvd. 23) S.R. 57 and Furnace St 24) S.R. 57 and West River Road
