NCD980602163_19960220_Warren County PCB Landfill_SERB C_Recommendations for improving the RFP for the PCB excavation job-OCR

February 20, 1996 ..................................................................... by FAX
To : Bill Meyer
From: JoelHirschhom
Subject: Recommendations for improving the RFP for the PCB excavation job
Overall, I thought your draft RFP was quite good. As I told you last week, after the pre-bid
meeting, I want to share some of my thin.king "'ith you.
I. I think that the criterion 2.4. l should be expanded to include company or subcontractor
experience with placing monitoring wells or borings through landfill caps without harming cap
integrity, as well as experience with toxic or hazardous waste landfills.
2. I find the current draft RFP lacking information which I believe should be presented, namely
the requirement that the contractor use some type of storage container identification system so
that batches of material can be correlated to specific locations in the landfill.
3. The RFP also needs to address the extent to which specific batches of material removed from
the landfill must be tested for levels of PCBs and dioxin~ probably after drying. Without
chemistries there is no way to know whether "representati\'e" materials relative to contammated
soils are being removed. Such data would also be extremely important for technology pilot test
vendors, if contaminant levels varied significantly among batches. Such testing, however, would
add substantially to cost. The RFP may have to define the sizes of batches and specif), storage
container size as well.
4. l think the RFP should specify the number of excavation points, or a minimum number.
S. Testing requirements for water removed should also be specified.
6. l do not share Patrick's enthusiasm for providing markedly more specs. A little more is
appropriate, but I think you can benefit from seeing some different approaches from bidders.