25E - AGMT - WATER QUALITY TESTING

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Agreement Exhibit A EXHIBIT A CITY OF SANTA ANA REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR WATER QUALITY SAMPLING & TESTING SERVICES SCOPE OF SERVICES DESCRIPTION AND SCOPE OF WORK The City of Santa Ana is issuing this Request for Proposals (RFP) for Water Quality Sampling & Testing Services.The City of Santa Ana requests the services of an analytical laboratory to provide timely, high - quality analytical analysis of the City's domestic water system. Analysis shall be in accordance with "Standard Methods ", Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations entitled "California Domestic Water Quality and Monitoring Regulations ", and Code of Federal Regulations, and shall consist of bacteriological quality, general physical quality, general mineral, lead & copper, nitrate /nitrite, inorganics, fluoride, haloacetic acids and total trihalomethanes. The City has 50 designated sample sites. All routine water samples will be drawn from these sites. In addition the City has 10 designated sample sites for Fluoride analysis. Non - routine water samples will be collected by the City in specially prepared bottles provided by the consultant to be collected and tested by the consultant. A. IMPLEMENTATION City staff shall have the right to modify, reduce, or delete the services as needed by City. 2. BACTERIOLOGICAL QUALITY (1) Routine: Samples shall be collected by the Consultant, in appropriate sterilized bottles to which a chlorine reducing agent has been properly added, on a weekly basis at 50 designated sample points. Total coliform analyses are to be conducted using either the multiple tube fermentation method analyzing a minimum of 100 -m1 of water either with using 5- tube 20 -m1 portions or 10 -tube 10 -ml portions, the membrane filter technique, the presence /absence (P -A) coliform test, or the minimal medium (Coliform) test. Reporting of positive samples shall be based on the presence or absence of coliforms in each sample rather than an estimation of coliform density. Upon detecting that either a routine or repeat sample is either total coliform or fecal coliform positive, or a sample is invalidated due to interference problems, the Consultant shall notify the City within twenty-four hours. To complete the notification, consultant must contact a live individual. Voice mail and faxed notifications will only be a secondary means of notification. The appropriate contact person for the City Is the Water Services Quality Inspector at (714) 647- 3341 or the Water Services Quality Coordinator at (714) 647 -3316. When voice mail is used to leave a message, the Consultant shall contact the City's Dispatch Office at (714) 647 -3380 between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. If notification is required during a weekend or holiday, the Water Services Quality Inspector should be contacted at (714) 371 -6779. In addition, a copy of the City's Emergency Notification Plan (Exhibit 1) is attached. RFP #14 -017 —Water Quality Sampling & Testing Services �lPaagee 10 29E-16