19C - RFP - CLOSED CIRCUT TV INSPECTION OF SEWERS

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City of Santa Ana, PWA RFP - Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Inspection of Sanitary Sewer Mains All work shall be accomplished and in accordance with these provisions as specified herein. SAMPLE PROJECT All proposers responding to this RFP shall be required to perform a sample CCTV inspection of a sewer main segment and submit the sample video, report and database file as part of their response package. Proposers who fail to perform and submit the sample video, report or database file will automatically be disqualified. Proposers responding to this RFP shall make themselves available to perform the sample project on TBD as outlined in this section thereof. The exact date, time and location shall be coordinated through the Water Resources Division. The City Water Resources Division will contact the proposer to coordinate this effort after the City receives the proposers notice regarding its intent to respond to the RFP. The cost of the sample project shall be borne by the proposer as part of the response to the RFP. A. SEWER CLEANING: All sewers shall be cleaned within 24 hours prior to CCTV inspection except as directed otherwise by the Engineer. Cleaning shall include removal of grease, roots, debris and other obstructions to facilitate the CCTV inspection. The contractor firm shall use the appropriate nozzle or cutter head, (i.e. high velocity, water jet, root cutter, etc.), to accomplish the cleaning as required for that particular reach of sewer. Cleaning methods shall be employed to sufficiently clean the pipe so the camera can pass and can fully ascertain and document the structural and operational condition of the pipe. Any costs associated with CCTV inspection work that is necessitated by the contractor's failure to sufficiently clean the main shall be borne entirely by the contractor. The contractor shall use a tablet PC with infraMAP® software, supplied by the City, to record the location of the cleaning operation and the conditions encountered for each section of sewer main that is cleaned. The contractor shall be trained by the City in the use of infraMAP®. At the end of each day that work was performed, the contractor shall synchronize the tablet PC with the City's databases at the City Corporate Yard facilities The tablet PC shall be delivered along with the digital video, logs and other materials when a designated area of work has been completed. The City reserves the right to use both the comprehensiveness and completeness of the cleaning reports along with the cleanliness of the pipe as evidenced by the supplied video to ascertain whether the pipe was cleaned sufficiently. Any costs required to re-clean either an unreported or an insufficiently cleaned main shall be borne entirely by the consultant. B. TELEVISION INSPECTION: 1. The contractor shall visually inspect, digitally encode video in WMV format (or another format if mutually agreed upon) and provide digital logs, in PDF format, of all inspected sewers. The log and video formats shall be approved by the City prior to commencement of work. Only portable hard drives and flash drives are accepted as specified on item #4. 2. The contractor shall use equipment specially designed and constructed for sewer 13 19C-15