J--Annual Cleaning Service for Boiler Plant

The VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT has steam generating boilers that require regular cleaning to precede the annual internal and external independent inspections. Provide all materials, labor, and equipment to perform the quoted items detailed below. Item 1, cleaning, will be quoted as firm fixed price. The contract will have a one-year base period with four option years. The VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT presently has three steam generating boilers (boilers #1, #2 and #3), that require regular cleaning to coincide with the VA required annual third-party inspections and certification. Boiler #3 is a 200 HP FLEX water tube boiler and is traditionally the "summer" boiler. Boiler #1 and #2 are 500 HP water-tube boilers, and traditionally the "winter boilers, used primarily during the colder winter months. The boiler inspections are conducted annually and are scheduled in a manner such that at least one of the two boilers is available for full duty at all times. 3.1 Item 1 - Cleaning Provide annual cleaning services for boilers #1, #2, and #3. Scheduling of cleanings to be staggered and coordinated with the Medical Center's annual boiler inspection schedule provided in Attachment A, Equipment List . Provide all equipment, labor, and materials, to open and clean boilers using the proper tools and brushes to clean both the water sides and combustion chambers. The steam drum baffles on #1 & #2 will need to be removed to access the underlying tubes for brushing. Open all hand holes, man holes, and low water cut-offs. Water sides to be completely water washed of all loose mud and scale by use of water hoses and scrapers as necessary. All scale and mud will be removed from the mud drums. Water sides to be inspected for present or future problem areas. Provide recommendations if any problem areas are found. After inspection and upon approval of the owner, reinstall all hand holes, man holes, and low water cutoffs with new gaskets. Pressure test all areas to ensure no leaks are present. Provide new gaskets for reassembly. Gaskets are to be approved by the owner prior to cleaning. 3.2 Item 2 - Call-in Services The contractor shall provide call-in service for various duties relating to the internal and external cleaning services for boilers #1, #2, and #3. This service shall include cleaning any unknown items discovered during cleaning under Item 3.1. The Contractor shall inform the Government POC (generally either the person who called them in or who met them at the site) of their diagnosis of the problem, the planned cleaning, estimated cost, and time required to complete the cleaning, and will get approval in writing prior to beginning work. Response time for call-in services shall be no more than twenty-four hours. The contractor shall provide a phone number or pager number to the VA to be used for call-in services. It shall take no more than two attempts, fifteen minutes apart, for the VA to reach an employee at the phone/pager number.

Division 01 -	General Requirements, Quality Control, Testing and Inspecting Services.
Division 23 -	Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), Heating Boilers.
Division 42 -	Process Heating, Cooling, and Drying Equipment, Process Boilers.