a) Contractor shall maintain all elevators and lifts under this Contract in optimal operating condition. Contractor shall furnish all material, parts, labor, necessary tools, lubricants and equipment to comply with all requirements of this Contract, as well as the latest revisions of the American National Standards Institute/American Society of Mechanical Engineers (hereinafter referred to as “ANSI/ASME”) 17.1 Safety Code of Elevators and Escalators, International Mechanical Code, National Electrical Code, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (hereinafter referred to as “OSHA”) requirements, the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines, as well the manufacturer’s standard recommendation manuals for service and repair. Contractor shall be responsible for all costs associated with such services as further described in herein. All service records, maintenance records or other records that result from work performed under this Contract become property of the City of Beaumont and shall be stored at each building. Most services are to be performed during regular business hours which are considered to be between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays in which most City facilities are closed except for Fire Department facilities, Event Facilities, Police Department Facilities, and the 911 Center. However, there will be occasional operations requiring work in the buildings after normal business hours. Contractor is expected to maintain an “on-call” contact for emergency responses twenty-four (24) hours per day, seven (7) days per week, three hundred sixty-five (365) days per year. All repairs must be completed, and elevator equipment returned to service within the timeframe agreed upon by the Facilities Maintenance Director or his designee. If additional time is needed it must be approved by the Facilities Maintenance Director. b) In accordance with the approved Preventative Maintenance (PM) Checklist, the Contractor shall monthly, except when specified otherwise in this contract, systematically examine, adjust, lubricate as required and if necessary, repair or replace the following elevator equipment: machine, worm gear, gear, thrust bearings, drive sheaves, drive sheave shaft bearings, brake pulleys, brake coils, brake contacts, linings and component parts, motor and motor generators, motor windings, rotating elements, commutators, brushes, brush holders and bearings, controllers, selector and dispatching equipment relays, solid state components, resistors, condensers, transformers, contacts, leads, dashpots, timing devices, computer devices, solid state PC boards, selector cables or tape and mechanical and electrical driving equipment, governors, governor sheaves and shaft assemblies, bearings, contacts and governor jaws, deflector or secondary sheaves, bearings, car and counterweight buffers, car and counterweight guide rails, top and bottom limit switches, governor tension sheave assemblies, compensating sheave assemblies, counterweight and counterweight guide shoes including rollers or gibs, hoist way door interlocks, hoist way door hangers, operators (including door operators), car safety mechanisms, platforms, wood platform flooring, car door sills, cab emergency light fixtures, cab fans and fan motors, elevator car guide shoes, gibs and rollers, plunger packings, exposed piping, hydraulic fluid tanks, hydraulic fluid oil as needed in plunger electric elevator equipment, and any other elevator equipment not specifically excluded. c) In the event a part or component is proven to be obsolete, the city will be responsible for the cost associated with the replacement of the part with an approved after-market part. The Contractor will have to provide written proof from the elevator manufacturer that the part is obsolete and no longer fabricated before the city will accept the responsibility for payment of these costs.
