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GEOTECHNICAL INSPECTIONS, MATERIAL TESTING, AND SPECIAL INSPECTION SERVICES
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The Contractor is engaged to provide comprehensive geotechnical engineering, materials testing, and special inspection services to Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) across its service area, including Sacramento, Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, Folsom, Galt, Rancho Cordova, and Sacramento County, with occasional work extending to SMUD’s hydroelectric facilities in El Dorado and Placer Counties and its wind generation site in Solano County. Services encompass field exploration, laboratory testing, subsurface and surface condition evaluations, and special inspections covering soil, concrete, structural steel, masonry, reinforced steel, drilled piers, asphalt, roofing, coatings, and both destructive and non-destructive testing. All personnel must meet strict certification standards, including AWS CWI Level 3 for weld inspection, ACI, ICC, NICET, ASNT, API, and NACE CIP Level III for specialized roles. Laboratory testing must be performed by NIST-accredited facilities participating in CCRL, AMRL, and AASHTO accreditation and proficiency programs. Materials testing follows ASTM, CAL, and CBC Chapter 17 standards, with specific procedures for compressive strength, moisture content, proctor density, sieve analysis, and other geotechnical and construction material evaluations. The Contractor must maintain an office within one hour’s drive of SMUD’s Sacramento headquarters and ensure all data and personnel involved reside within the continental United States. All work is performed on an as-needed basis under a trade-off evaluation model where technical qualifications—including experience of key personnel, proposer’s track record, and responsiveness to SMUD’s needs—constitute 65% of the scoring, while commercial terms and price account for 20%, supplemented by SEED Program participation and environmental sustainability. Mandatory pass/fail criteria must be met to proceed to evaluation. The Contractor must comply with stringent security protocols, including a pre-approved Professional Services Security Plan, background checks for all personnel, zero tolerance for data export beyond SMUD systems, and no expectation of privacy on SMUD-managed platforms. Insurance requirements include CGL, E&O, workers’ compensation with SMUD as additional insured, waiver of subrogation, and a three-year extended reporting period. The Contractor must also adhere to SMUD’s SEED Program, ensuring at least 20% subcontracting to DGS-certified small businesses, timely payment to subs, and quarterly reporting. Invoices must be submitted electronically monthly in PDF format to a designated SMUD email, including contract numbers and supporting documentation. All
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4401 Bradshaw Road Sacramento, California 95827, CA, USASet-Aside
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Submission Closed
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The Contractor shall provide all labor, material, and equipment required to provide geotechnical engineering, geological studies, materials testing, and specialized inspection services, including welding, roofing and coatings, to SMUD on an “as needed” basis.
The Contractor providing geotechnical engineering, materials testing, and special inspection services will have staff capable of meeting the requirements of SMUD. To the extent that the Contractor lacks specific expertise, a professional group of subcontractors or associate firms should be assembled to complement the Contractor’s expertise. Geotechnical engineering services may include geotechnical field exploration, geotechnical laboratory testing, and geotechnical reports on surface and subsurface conditions at a site.
Special inspection and material testing services may include construction materials sampling, performing quality test of materials, inspection and quality control by qualified special inspectors to ensure conformance to the construction plans and specifications, all applicable codes and standards and to the CBC Chapter 17 in the areas of: soil, structural steel, masonry, concrete, reinforcing steel, drilled pier construction, aggregate base & asphalt concrete, fireproofing, roofing, material coatings, destructive and non-destructive testing, geotechnical monitoring and testing. Special inspectors should be certified by American Concrete Institute (ACI), International Code Council (ICC), National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET), American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), American Petroleum Institute (API), and National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) Coating Inspector Program (CIP) Level III, where applicable.
Structural steel weld inspection services may include field and shop structural steel weld inspections for purposes of verifying conformance to AWS D1.1, CBC Chapter 17, and the construction plans and specifications. Review of material test reports and visual inspection of all materials used. Review of weld procedures used. Perform visual weld inspections (VT), magnetic particle (MT), and Ultrasonic (UT) inspections of structural steel welds. Provide written report detailing results of all weld inspections and identifying locations of any defects discovered and corrective measures taken. Structural steel weld inspectors should be a certified American Welding Society (AWS) Certified Weld Inspector (CWI) Level 3.
Laboratory testing shall be done by laboratories accredited through the Nationals Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) by participating in the Cement and Concrete Reference Laboratory (CCRL) proficiency sample and laboratory inspection programs, AASHTO Materials Reference Laboratory (AMRL) proficiency sample program and the AASHTO laboratory accreditation program.
Bolt testing and steel / welding inspections will be accomplished by U.T., X-ray, Dye Penetrant Inspection (DPI), visual and other methods as directed.
For drilled pier construction, special inspection may include observation of drilled piers constructed using the slurry displacement method and obtaining and testing slurry samples, review and inspection of drilled shaft field conditions for compliance with plans and specifications, observation of ground water control methods, check water discharge from pumps to determine the percent of fines carried in the water, determine when bearing material has been reached and when the depth of pier is adequate by perfor
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