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Reference Number AB-2022-01990 SPECIFICATIONS AND SPECIAL PROVISIONS 1. Overburden removal, interburden removal, and finish contouring at Blatz Pit #4 located in lands legally described SW18-45-18-W4M will be incidental to the Services. There will be no compensation expected of the County (including haul road earthworks, and waste material movement). There is a minimal quantity of interburden removal that shall be required over some areas of the pitrun extraction. Test holes as identified on Drawing Number GC01-02-2022 as shown in Schedule "F" is meant to show the extent of these quantities. While some of these test holes reflect the current status of the pit, others were representative pre-disturbance and as such the depths may vary. In the event that topsoil or subsoil is encountered it shall be removed and placed in the appropriate pile incidental to the services. All Overburden removal will be incidental to the Services. All soil stockpile sites (as required) have been identified on Drawing Number GC01-01-2022. All soils stockpiles should be appropriately contoured to promote positive drainage away from the piles and allow for an accurate survey. All overburden and interburden removal shall be as per the current Code of Practice for Pits. It shall be the Contractor's responsibility to ensure acceptance of the Overburden removal quantities required. Admixing will not be permitted and the occurrence of such will be subject to penalty as deemed appropriate by the Manager of Public Works or his designate. 2. Mobilization and demobilization shall be lump sum and if additional equipment is required to complete the contract to specification it shall be at the expense of the contractor. There will be no compensation expected of the County. Half of the lump sum identified in bid item 1 will be paid with the first progress payment and the other half with the release of the holdback on the final payment. 3. The Contractor shall: 3.1. Mine, crush, screen, measure and stockpile 25,000 cubic meters of 4:25 modified specification gravel at Blatz Pit #4 at SW18-45-18-W4M (Measured in place) for the unit price as indicated on bid item 2. 3.2. Mine, crush, screen, measure and stockpile up to 12,500 cubic meters of additional 4:25 modified specification gravel at Blatz Pit #4 at SW18-45-18-W4M (Measured in place) for the unit price as indicated on bid item 3. This item may be deleted or reduced based on budget. 4. The Contractor shall: 4.1. Slope all embankments caused by excavations created while crushing gravel in the aforementioned gravel pits and prior to moving any equipment away from the pit. The said embankments shall be sloped at no less than 3:1 with overburden or excess screening or as otherwise specified by the Manager of Public Works or his designate. 4.2. Remove all equipment within 30 days of completion of all earthworks and crushing from the county pit unless otherwise approved by the Manager of Public Works or his designate. 5. The order of extraction of in-situ pitrun will be from the water pumping discharge area east to the south-east limit, progressing to the north limit and then west as referenced in the Gravel Extraction area as illustrated in Drawing Number GC01-02-2022. In-situ material will be transported by the Contractor to the crusher by whatever means deemed appropriate by the Contractor and as approved by the Manager of Public Works. 6. In all locations of gravel extraction, the intent is that the gravel resource shall be removed to a depth in which there is no remaining gravel resource underlying the final excavation elevation. It is required that a track hoe be utilized to properly exhaust gravel resources to the final pit elevation. County personnel will confirm acceptance that all gravel has been satisfactorily mined. Pockets of interburden removal shall be considered incidental to the Services. 7. It is the contractor's responsibility to verify the quantities to his own satisfaction. 8. It shall be mandatory that stacking conveyors be utilized for the final stockpiling of all crushed gravel. 9. Gravel shall be crushed and screened to the Following Specifications: 9.1. 4:25 Modified Specification Sieve Size - um Percent Passing 25,000 100 10,000 30 - 65 5,000 15- 45 1,250 0 - 27 80 0 - 10 Fractures - % 60+ 10. All stockpile sites will be surveyed prior to the placement of any crushed gravel. Upon completion of the gravel crushing, the actual volume will be calculated by surveying and plotting the produced gravel stockpile less the existing gravel stockpile site. The method of survey / data collection will be done by a Geographical Positioning System or Drone and the volume calculated by a 3D modeling program using TIN / Surface subtraction i.e.: Surface 1- Survey of stockpile site, Surface 2 - Survey of Stockpile after crushing on site. 11. The Contractor may hire an independent professional Engineering Consultant to verify the stockpile volume at their cost should they wish. In the event discrepancy regarding finished quantities arises, the stockpile volume used by the independent professional Engineering Consultant shall incorporate a pre-stockpile base or shall be deemed invalid. The Contractor shall level the top of stockpiles to ensure that an accurate survey can be performed before leaving the site. All levelling efforts performed on the gravel stockpile shall result in positive drainage away from the gravel stockpile. 12. All finished aggregate stockpile shall be stacked to a height of 9.14 meters (30'). 13. The County reserves the right to increase or decrease the volume crushed at Blatz Pit #4 located at SW18-45-18-W4M at its sole discretion without explanation. 14. The Contractor shall crush all rock with a diameter of 200 mm. (8") or less. 15. The Contractor shall separate all rock in excess of 200 mm. (8") to produce clean rip rap and stockpile the material at the location designated by the Manager of Public Works or his designate. The County reserves the right to limit the amount of rip rap being produced and direct the Contractor to crush the balance of the oversize to the contract specification. 16. Aggregate produced shall comply fully with the specifications, and the Contractor shall recognize and satisfy himself as to the type and amount of work that may be necessary to produce the material required. 17. The Contractor shall adjust and modify aggregates as required in order to meet specification requirements, including but not limited to, splitting of aggregate, and/or rejection of fine aggregate. 18. Gravel shall be stockpiled at the site shown on Drawing Number GC01-01-2022. The location of the stockpile or stockpiles can be changed at any time by the Manager of Public Works or his designate giving the Contractor one day written notice of change of location, but no such new stockpile shall be located at a distance more than 500 meters from the excavation area. 19. The mining, crushing, screening, stockpiling and cleanup of the said quantities of gravel shall be completed in full by October 28, 2022. All material crushed and stockpiled after this date will incur a penalty of $1.50/m3. 20. All areas in which the Contractor will have operated during the project shall be fully levelled and left in a neat and tidy manner. This would include, but not be limited to: areas of gravel extraction, haul routes, traveled areas, and crusher laydown and operation site. 21. The gravel may be loaded directly from the crusher onto the trucks utilized by the County should it be required. Quantities will be based on legal tare in conjunction with an average density rate as determined by a third-party testing agency. Moisture content in this regard will be based on an overall project average. 22. The Contractor shall employ and keep on the job sites at all times that work is in progress under this contract, a competent person or persons who shall give efficient supervision to the crushing and stockpiling operation, and who will be able to receive and act upon directions, instructions, and notices which may be given by the County. 23. All directions, instructions, and notices on behalf of the County shall be given to the Contractor or his supervisor in writing by the Manager of Public Works, or in his absence, any other authorized person on his behalf. 24. The Contractor shall keep a daily record of the gravel crushed, screened and stockpiled. The said daily record is subject to the approval of the Manager of Public Works his designate or an appointed checker. The Manager of Public Works and designate shall at all times have access to the records of the Contractor, and shall have a reasonable time at the commencement of each working day to inspect, test, balance or do any other thing necessary to ensure the accurate measurement and specifications of the gravel crushed. 25. The Manager of Public Works or any other authorized person acting on his behalf shall at all times have access to the crushing, and stockpiling operation, and may give any instructions or directions he deems necessary to protect the property of the County or of others on or near the gravel pits, and such instructions or directions shall be binding on the Contractor. The County may inspect the crushing and stockpiling operation at any time and may cause such testing of the crush as is necessary. The Contractor shall rectify, at his own expense, his operation if in the opinion of the County the crush produced does not meet the requirements. 26. The Contractor will at all times pay, and be responsible for all losses, claims, demands, actions, suits, costs, expenses and damages which may be incurred by or by reason of any action or other proceeding which shall or may be brought or instituted in respect of injury to persons or damages to property on or near any of the said gravel pits or stockpiles arising out of the excavation for, crushing and stockpiling of gravel by the Contractor, directly or indirectly, and the Contractor shall at all times hereafter save harmless and keep indemnified the County from and against all such losses, claims, demands, actions, suits, costs, expenses and damages. 27. The Contractor shall be responsible for the care and protection of all material, and equipment on the job sites, and all damage to the said material and equipment, howsoever caused, shall be made good at the expense of the Contractor. 28. Acceptance of processed aggregates shall take place when such aggregates are in their final position and have met all the requirements of the Contract. Final position for a crushing and stockpiling contract will be the stockpile. 29. The Contractor shall license all vehicles and equipment in accordance with the laws of the Province of Alberta. 30. The Contractor shall dispose of all waste materials produced by or incidental to the crushing and stockpiling operation as directed by the Manager of Public Works or his designate. Upon completion of the crushing, the site is to be inspected by a representative of the Contractor and the Manager of Public Works or his designate to ensure the work site is left in a condition satisfactory to the County. 31. The Contractor will give the County at least two (2) days' notice of his intention to move the crushing operation from any location, and simultaneously the County will be informed of the location where the crushing operation will resume. 32. The Contractor is responsible for the overall safety of their workers. The Contractor is responsible to comply with applicable Environmental, Health, and Safety Legislation as applicable in the Province of Alberta. 33. The Contractor shall prepare and implement an Environmental Construction Operations Plan in accordance with the Department manual entitled "Environmental Construction Operations Plan (ECO Plan) Framework" dated Sept. 2008 version. The plan must be submitted and approved by the County prior to the Contractor moving into the pit. 34. Should this Tender be accepted, the undersigned agrees to enter into a written agreement with the County for the faithful performance of the Services covered by this Tender. 35. The hours of operation permitted for the crushing portion of the Services shall be 6 days per week (Monday thru Saturday) and hours of operation permitted between 6:00 AM and 11:00 PM. 36. The Contractor shall provide safe and convenient means for accurately and representatively sampling each aggregate stream being produced during all screening, splitting and crushing processes. 37. Crushing operations shall be controlled to prevent segregation of the various particle sizes. The stacking conveyor used to stockpile the final product should not have a discharge point of more than 2.0 meters above the stockpile. 38. The Contractor shall note that the existing area to be mined is EXTREMELY prone to groundwater, but that all aggregates identified within the proposed excavation area shown on the Drawing Number GC01-01-2022 shall be utilized including all aggregates potentially below the water table. Dewatering methods will meet all requirements as per the current Code of Practice for Pits, as well as those of the dewatering permit and associated conditions located under Appendix "G" - Dewatering Permit - Water Act Approval 00304775. Dewatering discharge points are indicated on Drawing Number GC-01-2022 a silt bag will be required at the end of the discharge hose along with a meter to measure the water being discharged. All discharged water volumes shall be recorded daily. No separate or additional payment will be made for utilizing aggregates below the water table or for dewatering operations. Payment for this work will be considered incidental to the unit price bid per cubic meter for material being produced. The water level will be at or lower than the level identified at the pre-tender meeting. 39. The Contractor shall dispose of all reject material by piling it as identified on Drawing Number GC01-01-2022. Reject may also be used for back sloping in excavations at the approval of the Manager of Public Works or his designate in the location identified on GC01-01-2022. 40. To accommodate fuel cost changes over the course of this agreement, for each $0.05/l of price increase for #2 dyed diesel there will be a premium of $0.05/m3 for produced aggregate. For every $0.05/l of price decrease there will be a credit to the County of $0.05/m3. The unit price fuel adjustment will be based relative to the baseline #2 dyed diesel fuel price (including GST) on the date of tender closing less the average #2 dyed diesel fuel price (including GST) from the start of crushing to the crushing completion date. If negligible aggregate or no aggregate is produced for a period of 5 days or longer that period will be excluded from the average fuel price. The price of fuel will be determined by Camrose County using an average of the #2 dyed diesel County rate from Petro Canada bulk station (Drever's Agencies) and the UFA bulk station in Camrose Alberta. The premium or credit will be accounted for on the final progress payment and applied to all aggregate produced. The bid bond accompanying the Tender, in the amount of 10% of the Tender and made out to Camrose County, must be signed and sealed, by both the Bidder or his authorized representative, and the Bonding Company. If a certified cheque or bank draft is used in lieu of a bid bond, it shall be made payable to the "Camrose County". Omission of the certified cheque or bid bond shall invalidate the tender and shall be cause for rejection of the bid.