Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Water Services Department (MWS) of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County (hereinafter the Department) is soliciting proposals from qualified offerors to perform Underground Utility Locating Services (hereinafter the Locating Program). Contractor will fulfill MWS's responsibilities under the Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 65, Chapter 31, known as the Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act and will provide the benefit of utility locating and marking services. Details are give in Section- Scope of Services. Scope of Work: For the purpose of safeguarding MWS's Sub-surface Facilities from excavation damage, Contractor will receive and respond as required, to all excavation notices, directed to MWS, in accordance with the Tennessee Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act, as codified in Tennessee Code Annotated 65-31-101 et. seq. Contractor will provide technical services to locate and mark underground pipes and other underground facilities for MWS. Contractor shall provide such temporary markings and protection as may be required. Such protection shall include painting, flagging, or staking the horizontal location of MWS's underground facilities in accordance with current marking standards of the American Public Works Association. Contractor shall provide complete personnel, office services, vehicles and all tools and materials required for the safe and proper performance of this agreement. Contractor's vehicles shall be equipped with two-way radio communication equipment. In addition, Contractor shall provide its personnel with paging devices to facilitate communication when outside the vehicles. Communication equipment shall be compatible with current MWS communication equipment. Normal service hours and working days of Contractor's office shall be common to those of the Tennessee One Call. The contractor will provide any locating services required after regular operating hours, emergency situations, and 24 hours a day, on weekends, holidays and 3:30P.M - 7:00AM Central Time on workdays. Contractor shall provide all circuits and equipment required to receive requests from the Tennessee One Call. MWS shall be responsible for all other contractual and cost obligations between Tennessee One Call and MWS. Contractor's administrative responsibility shall include, but not be limited to, receipt, recording, dispatching, and closing out of notices of excavation. Contractor shall keep a record for up to six (6) years, of each notice of excavation indicating the time and date a mark out was made, the type of facility marked, and date, time and name of person notified. All markings for conduit routes shall be "corridor" markings identifying centerline and width of the facility structure. Markings for all other MWS facilities shall be "centerline". Contractor shall be responsible for the maintenance of its marks up to the start of excavation (not to exceed 10 working days) Contractor shall notify the excavator of the presence of any identifiable, but unlocatable MWS facilities, and caution the excavator that any location information supplied may not be within reasonable accuracy. Contractor will pay for all claims resulting from contractor's errors to include indirect and overhead costs associated with such errors. Invoices will be emailed to the specified contact at time of contract. Claims should be either refuted or remitted with in 30 days of invoice date. Failure to remit may result in MWS netting the claim against the monthly bill for locating services.
