Site work, paving, outdoor lighting and new construction of a mixed-use development in Potsdam, New York. Completed plans call for the construction of a municipal facility; for site work for a municipal facility; service station / car wash facility; sidewalk / parking lot; for outdoor lighting for a sidewalk / parking lot; for paving for a sidewalk / parking lot; pre-engineered storage facility; pre-engineered storage facility; and water / sewer project.

The project shall bid out as (6) prime contracts: Mechanical . Relocation of their main Department of Highway facility to the above noted Potsdam outpost site. Overall site improvements including but not limited to a new water tower, fueling island, and septic system. - New 4,608 sf Wood Framed Administration Building - New 26,288 sf Steel Maintenance Building - New 5,000 sf Cold Storage Pole Barn - New Fuel Island - New Weights and Measures Station Submit all questions about the bid documents to Patrick Currier at C&S Companies, 200 Washington St, Suite 402B, Watertown, New York, 13601 by email to pcurrier@cscos.com at 14th Feb 2026. A. The Contractor shall prevent surface water and subsurface or groundwater from flowing into excavations or earthwork areas which would cause flooding of the project site and surrounding area, or softening or loosening of the soil at trench excavation or earthwork subgrade. B. The Contractor shall provide adequate and satisfactory dewatering and drainage of excavations and furnish all materials and equipment and do all incidental work required in conjunction with the furnishing, installing, and maintaining of same to permit proper installation of the structures, pipe and appurtenances. The Contractor may choose any satisfactory method he wishes, subject to the approval of the Engineer, for handling groundwater or surface water encountered in the work, provided they perform the dewatering required, and shall assume all responsibility for the adequacy of the methods, materials, and equipment employed. The Contractor shall bear the full cost of providing the dewatering at all times of the year, throughout the construction period, and no additional payment shall be made for this work. The Contractor shall take all precautions necessary to prevent loosening or softening up of the subgrade. In this regard, the Contractor shall at all times be prepared to alter his construction method or sequence. Dewatering and control of water shall be conducted as necessary to prevent seepage, groundwater flow and infiltration and runoff from it in any way undermining or otherwise damaging adjacent structures and utilities. C. Pumping equipment and devices to properly remove and dispose of all water entering the trenches and excavation for structures shall be provided. The grade shall be maintained dry until the structures (pipe, manholes, vaults, etc.) to be built thereon are completed. All dewatering required by pumping and drainage shall be performed without damage to the excavation, pipe trench, pavements, pipes, electrical conduits, other utilities and any other work or property. Existing or new sanitary sewers shall not be used to dispose of drainage. The Contractor's method of dewatering shall maintain the bottom excavation dry at all times. A. Provide all materials, labor, equipment and services necessary to provide a fully functioning and tested crane electrical system, complete with pendant and radio control. B. Codes: 1. The electrical equipment shall meet NEMA Classification requirements for crane construction except where higher grade devices are specified. 2. The design and installation shall conform to the requirements of all applicable New York State, and the National Electric Code NFPA 70. C. Submittals: 1. Submit under Article 1.5 Submittals the Bill of Materials, Manufacturer's Brochures and Catalog Cuts, Shop Drawings, Erection Drawings, Wiring Diagrams, Schematics, and an Equipment layout. 2. Submit for approval all electrical controls, micro switches, wiring diagrams, schematics, control panels, identification labels, disconnect switches, wire, limit switches, enclosures, contactors, circuit breakers, pendants and buttons, radio control enclosure, master radio transmitter/receiver, hand held transmitter, radio selector switch, collectors and shoes, motors, electric brakes, variable frequency drives (VFD), factory and field default settings for each VFD, and alarm devices. 3. Show location and elevation of all electrical controls and panels which shall be placed so that they are available for servicing when the crane is docked at the maintenance platform. D. AC Controls: 1. The AC controls shall be provided with an under voltage device which will disconnect all motors from the line on failure of power or brownout and will not permit any motor to be restarted until a reset switch or push-button is operated. 2. All magnetic contactors shall be fully rated for their horsepower load and sized for continuous duty. 3. All crane components to be designed for a 480V, 3 phase, 3 wire, Delta system. The control voltage shall be 120VAC from a control power transformer with protective circuit breakers. 4. The Color Code for 480 VAC wiring is: AO = brown, BO = yellow, CO = purple, Neutral = slate, insulated equipment ground = green. 5. Bridge and runway conductors shall be Duct-O-Bar, Insul-8 or equal 6. All control wiring shall be 120 VAC, #14 minimum size, MTW or better in conduit or within panels. 7. All wiring to be color coded and all terminal strips and wires to be identified with markings consistent with the drawings. 8. All wiring between enclosures to terminate on field wiring terminal strips at both ends, except where not practical at small field devices. Field terminal strips aren't required for circuit breakers and large power contactors. Splicing of wires to make connections is forbidden and not acceptable. 9. Limit switches shall be installed at both ends of travel on the trolley and the bridge to prevent the trolley or the bridge from striking the bumpers or existing crane. Location of limit switches to be adjustable. Use Heavy Duty limit switches. 10. Furnish engraved plastic name plates (to be secured with screws not glue or double back tape) with 1/4" engraved lettering on the exterior of all controller enclosures with the appropriate marking i.e. Main Disconnect, Main Line and Bridge Control, Trolley Control, Hoist Control, etc.. Within the enclosure all components including circuit breakers, contactors, relays, timers, terminal blocks, resistors etc. shall be labeled with 1/8" engraved lettering, firmly attached with metal screws to the equipment. 11. All enclosures shall be NEMA type 12, with removable hinged doors with neoprene gaskets, shall be in full compliance with the National Electric Code for size, be readily accessible and doors shall be fully openable to 90 degrees. 12. A 480 VAC lockable crane disconnect switch shall be provided at floor level and shall be the Point of Connection for connection to the LBNL power system. Disconnect switch shall be horsepower and heavy duty rated. 13. A heavy duty, horsepower rated, fused, disconnect switch shall be provided on the crane at the closest entry point to the crane from a maintenance platform that will shut off all power to the crane. E. Brakes: 1. Bridge and trolley shall have electrically operated fail safe magnetic disc type brakes for operation from a dedicated circuit breaker. 2. Brakes shall be sized for the full load torque of the motor plus a safety factor. Provide bridge and trolley brake sizing calculations. F. Pendant: 1. All crane motions shall be controlled independently by a pendant push-button station and by a radio remote control, only one of which may have control at any one time as selected by a master switch. 2. The pendant push-button station shall have an electrified pendant reel which shall be controllable from the radio remote control, a lockable wall mounted switch located at floor level, or pendant push buttons. The pendant reel shall be capable of holding 25 feet of pendant cable. 3. Pendant push-button station to include a power on light, twist on & push off switch; three step reversing buttons for infinitely variable bridge, trolley, and hoist VFD control; maintained pressure pendant raise and lower buttons, and a maintained pressure bypass button. 4. The pendant shall have complete control of all crane functions including turning power on and off, pendant up/down control, and bypass of trolley and bridge runway limit switches. 5. Pendant shall be of such a length that it may be extended to the same level as the hook. 6. The pendant cable shall contain 8 spare conductors and be extra flexible. The cable connector connecting the cable to the pendant shall support a minimum of 300 pounds. G. Radio Control: 1. Use isolated relay contacts for the outputs of the radio control which shall be compatible with the VFD inputs. 2. Provide a Master switch to select between radio and pendant control. The master switch contacts are to isolate all radio control input and outputs and all pendant controls from each other, and must be easily accessible from the main maintenance entry point onto the crane 3. The radio remote control shall use rechargeable Ni-Cad batteries. A spare battery with battery charger shall be provided. 4. Radio control to be a pendant type and have the following buttons: key operated power on & off switch, power on/battery monitor light; three step reversing bridge, trolley, and hoist buttons for infinitely variable VFD control; pendant raise and lower buttons; bell button, and bypass button. 5. Provide a "Bypass" switch in the pendant and the radio controls to allow over riding the bridge and trolley limit switches so that docking as close as possible to a maintenance platform is possible. In "Bypass" the speeds of the trolley and bridge must be limited to a very low speed. 6. Provide a Blue Light under the crane which will light whenever the crane is being operated by radio control. The light shall be visible from all directions under the crane. H. Electrical Power: 1. Electrobar , or equal, inverted V-Bar, fully insulated and supported on insulators and brackets, be OSHA and UL approved. All conductors shall be individually enclosed with spring loaded collector shoes running on the underside. All wire attachments to the collectors shall be fully insulated, protected from harm, and securely attached. 2. All electrical wiring shall be in accordance with the latest requirements of the National Electric Code (NFPA 70) and OSHA Standards. All wiring exterior to enclosures shall be in rigid steel conduit with bushings. 3. Electrical motor connections to be liquid-tight flexible metal steel conduit with ground wire pulled within and bushings. I. Electrical Testing: 1. Test Hoist, Trolley and Bridge VFD's under full load and no load conditions. Verify that temperature within VFD enclosures are still within tolerance after full load tests. 2. Verify operation of all Pendant and Radio controls. Verify that they operate independently of each other and that they do not interfere with each other. 3. Verify that Pendant and Radio controls both work from the floor level. 4. Verify operation of all limit switches. Verify operation of Bypass controls for limit switches. J. Operating Manuals: 1. Submit PDF and three ring manuals which include As-Built schematics and wiring diagrams, Bill of Material, spare parts lists, replacement parts guides, lubricant and adjustment manuals, preventative maintenance guides, VFD programming, Radio Control local representatives names and phone numbers. K. Electrical As-Built Drawings: 1. At the completion of the installation and after successful testing, Electrical As-Built drawings are to be provided as well as AutoCAD files containing all schematic, wiring and layout drawing information for the crane and radio controls.