Q. What is the engineer's estimate?
A. The engineers estimate is approximately $2,000,000.
Q. Who is paying the permit fees?
A. Placer County Office of Education is paying the permit fees.
Q. For the allowance requested in 01 21 00, please clarify how the 10% is to be calculated. Please provide an example for clarification.
A: In section 1.3 of Document 01-21 00 in the bidders docs please find the following language.
1.3 ALLOWANCES
A. Included in the Contract, a stipulated sum/price of 10% as an allowance for Unforeseen Conditions within the limits set forth in the Bridging Documents. This Allowance shall not be utilized without written approval by the County Office.
B. Contractor’s costs for products, delivery, installation, labor, insurance, payroll, taxes, bonding and equipment rental will be included in Allowance Expenditure Directive authorizing expenditure of funds from this Allowance.
C. Funds will be drawn from Allowance only with County Office approval evidenced by an Allowance Expenditure Directive.
D. At Contract closeout, funds remaining in Allowance will be credited to County Office by Change Order.
An example of this would be if the General Contractor’s bid to complete a project were $1,000,000.00, Section 1.3 calls for a 10%, owner controlled allowance. In the example this would then total $100,000.00, and grand total of the bid at $1,100,000.00. This allowance provides for unforeseen conditions and small scope changes. If unused, the remainder is returned to the owner. This allowance should be included as a separate line item in the schedule of values.
Q. How was the contract completion date of February 7, 2020 derived?
A. The engineer’s original estimate was for 40 days of construction. PCOE staff felt that was insufficient and calculated 52 days of construction beginning with an estimated Notice to Proceed date of November 20th. Allowing for holidays and weekends, we calculated February 7th as the completion date. Further consideration of the effect of holiday seasons and material lead times has caused PCOE to reconsider the completion date. The new completion date for this project is February 28, 2020. A preliminary submittal schedule will be submitted 10 days after the Notice to Proceed, but submittals will be reviewed and approved by the owner and architect through the duration of construction.
