The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has posted its invitation for bids for the Florida Gulf Coast Marine Fisheries Hatchery and Enhancement Center.
A mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held on 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 7, at FDEP NW District Office, 160 West Government St.
Bids are due by 2:30 p.m. (CT) on Dec. 17.
SCOPE OF WORK:
Base Bid:
Contractor shall provide all labor, materials, equipment, supervision and permitting to construct the Fish Hatchery and Enhancement Center building, utility connections (water, sewer, electrical), site work, sidewalks, landscaping, stormwater management facilities, decorative outdoor art and informational signage, saltwater intake, irrigation well and site irrigation system, milling and re-pavement of limited portion of Clubbs St., Maintenance of Traffic Plan and erosion control per the contract
documents.
Editor’s Note: There is no environmental remediation. Also the pedestrian bridge that hatchery proponents have touted is an alternative. An alternative bid item is defined in the project documents: “separate optional bid item for more or less project requirements or alternate construction techniques or materials, which the Department may or may not accept as additional to the Base Bid, depending on available funding.” See below:
Alternate # 1:
The Contractor shall provide pricing for all labor, materials, equipment, supervision and permitting to construct the pedestrian bridge as shown on Sheet C-930 and as specified in Specifications Section 323300.
The base bid includes eight allowances. Allowances are defined as “an amount included in the Contract Price to cover the cost of prescribed items not specified in detail, with the condition that variations between such amount and the final determined cost of the prescribed items will be reflected in Change Orders appropriately adjusting the Contract Price.”
Allowances to be included in Base Bid:
ï‚· ALLOWANCE NO. 1 TWELVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE Dollars and 17 Cents ($12,683.17)
Allowance #1 description: Include an allowance for a City of Pensacola Building Permit for Main Building and Accessory Building
ï‚· ALLOWANCE NO. 2 EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED Dollars and 00 Cents ($8,500.00)
Allowance #2 Description: Include an allowance for exterior signage as shown on Sheet A200.
ï‚· ALLOWANCE NO. 3 THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE Dollars PER THOUSAND BRICKS ($375/Thousand bricks).
Allowance # 3 Description: Include an allowance for brick as specified in Specifications Section 042000, Unit Masonry.
ï‚· ALLOWANCE NO. 4 NINE THOUSAND Dollars and 00/Cents ($9,000.00). Allowance # 4 Description: Include an allowance for exterior artwork.
ï‚· ALLOWANCE NO. 5 TWELVE THOUSAND Dollars and 00/cents ($12,000). Allowance No. 5 Description: Site debris to be removed by 20 CY truck measure.
ï‚· ALLOWANCE NO. 6 THIRTY-THREE THOUSAND Dollars and 00/cents ($33,000). Allowance No. 6 Description: Underground power to Gulf Power.
ï‚· ALLOWANCE NO. 7 FIVE THOUSAND Dollars and 00/cents ($5,000). Allowance No. 7 Description: ECUA service connection.
ï‚· ALLOWANCE NO. 8 EIGHT THOUSAND Dollars and 00/cents ($8,000). Allowance No. 8 Description: UWF Historic Signage.
Bid states “The Work to be performed under the Agreement shall commence within the time set in the Notice to Proceed and shall reach Substantial Completion within four-hundred twenty (420) days after the date set in the Notice to Proceed.”
Inweekly has reviewed the bid documents. The borrow fill material on the site will be used to raise the height of the hatchery to 15 feet. City Administrator Eric Olson told the PNJ the material was contaminated. The documents show otherwise.
The hatchery building is 27,000 sq. ft. and the project area is seven acres. It will have a perimeter fence.
The drawings do not show the Baywalk being extended past a circle south of the hatchery building -which is different from the site plan above. The three access points to the Baywalk are the pedestrian bridge, the hatchery building and the parking lot. We don’t know if the parking lot will be open to the public 24/7.
There is no access to the Bruce Beach or Pensacola Bay.
