This Request for Proposal will establish contracts for Charlotte Water’s as-needed blast survey and monitoring services. Blasting is performed to remove rocks during construction, which may affect the surrounding structures’ integrity. Thus, surveys and monitoring must be performed.
Coffee Service Solution
Charlotte Water will seek a multi-year turn-key coffee service solution for its breakrooms in each applicable facility. The selected company will provide rental equipment (bean-to-cup and pod coffee makers), maintenance and repairs of the equipment, their full product selection, and related services such as refilling the equipment.
Flooring and Wallcovering Services
The City of Charlotte is soliciting for flooring and wallcovering to include vinyl flooring, tile, carpet, rubber and linoleum, wood products, wallpaper and any other materials that are needed in City-owned or operated facilities.
Related services include installation, removal and reclamation, and recycling as requested. Facilities Operations is responsible for maintaining more than 200 buildings and 4.4 million square feet of office space. Any vendors selected for award are expected to have the adequate capacity to provide all-inclusive services as needed.
Baggage Handling System and High/Low Controls O&M
The scope of this contract shall be to provide the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) and the Baggage Handling Controls (BHC) of the Baggage Handling System (“BHS”). The scopes are broken out into two sections, one covering the Baggage Handling Controls (BHC) which consists of both the High-Level Controls (“HLC”) combined with the low-level controls (“LLC”) of the BHS. The second scope will cover the Operations and Maintenance (“O&M”) of the BHS System. The airport operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so both the (BHC) and (O&M) scopes will require coverage of “Work” to match the airport’s operation. Both scopes will include corrective and preventative maintenance services with associated operation and maintenance reporting services. The proposer shall provide separate pricing for the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) scope and the Baggage Handling Controls (BHC) scope. The Baggage Handling Controls (BHC) and the Operations and Maintenance (“O&M”) portions of this scope of work may be awarded separately. Should the O&M and the (BHC) portions of the Work be awarded to multiple proposers, the Company shall fully cooperate with the other company to ensure the continual operation of the BHS. Where there is a conflict between the companies, CLT has the sole authority to make the final decision.
CENTRIFUGE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR SERVICES-Mallard Creek WRF
Company to provide the city centrifuge preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, and repair services for 2 (two) dewatering centrifuges and 2 (two) Thickening Centrifuges at the Mallard Creek WRF , Westfalia and Humboldt Dewatering Centirfuge and Humboldt Thickening Centrifuge. In addition to Preventive Maintenance, the selected Company will need to provide predictive maintenance service.
Electrostatic Painting Services
The City of Charlotte is requesting proposals for electrostatic painting services. These services may be used in firehouses and other General Services-maintained facilities. Requested services include the complete cleaning, resurfacing, and recoating of doors, walls, and other items. Prospective vendors must have extensive experience with electrostatic painting, and preferably in the context of delivering services to local government entities. It is imperative that any potential contamination is contained, and prospective vendors must clearly demonstrate their approach to preventing overspray in workspaces. The City anticipates selecting a single vendor for an award but reserves the right to select multiple vendors should the need arise.
Asphalt Traffic Calming Device Installation
This project involves building asphalt speed cushions, asphalt speed tables, and the rebuilding existing speed humps that have worn down over time throughout the City. The project includes traffic control, pavement milling, bituminous surface treatment, and pavement markings. This project will be assigned by task orders.
MOW Traction Power Substation Battery Replacement
The CATS LYNX Light Rail system maintains 26 traction power substations that provide 750VDC overhead power to the Blue Line Alignment. Each of these locations require a stand-by battery system to that is designed to power critical control circuits for up to 8 hours in the event of a utility power failure.
Each bank consists of 10 Marathon M12V90 AGM sealed lead-acid batteries, now obsolete, replaced by the CSB HRL12330W. There are 12 locations where the batteries have been in service past the 5-year recommended replacement interval.
The scope of work will be to replace 120 batteries of comparable type (insert new battery info here or above) and perform preventive maintenance and inspection of each battery charger in Traction Power Substations 3,5,7,9, 12-17, 18 and 20.
1. Isolation of the battery bank from the TPSS
2. Disconnection and removal of the existing batteries from the rack
3. Inspection of the existing hardware for defects and correcting any deficiencies
4. Installing the new batteries
5. Torquing all fasteners to the appropriate values
6. Perform battery charger preventive maintenance and inspection
6. Verify and document in-service voltage and ampacity of each cell and the complete bank
7. Restore all TPSS control power equipment to its original configuration and verifying proper operation
8. Removal and proper disposal of the old batteries.
The contractor will be required to have all employees working on the project successfully complete a
Roadway Worker Protection (RWPP) course which will be provided by CATS free of charge. MOW will
provide access to the work locations and escort contract personnel while they are in the performance of
their duties.
PSR # 1335
Charlotte Water Bill Inserts Printing Services
Charlotte Water, a Department of the City of Charlotte, will be seeking a company to print inserts that are then delivered to a mail house facility for insertion into the monthly water billing statement.
Charlotte Water will provide monthly print-ready artwork files to the company for printing. The company shall be responsible for the printing of the inserts, as well as shipping and delivery of the inserts to the designated mail house facility.
Although Charlotte Water makes no guarantees as to print volumes, it can be estimated that up to 600,000 inserts will be required to print monthly.