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CHAN EN
690 City Center Drive
PO Box 147
Minnesota 55317
Phone
952.937.1900
General Fax
952.937. 5739
Fax
952.937.9152
Building Department Fax
952.934.2524
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MEMORANDUM
TO:
Todd Gerhardt, City Manager
FROM:
DATE:
Teresa J. Burgess, Public Works Director/City Engin~~~ _ 0¢~,,r~,
February 6, 2002
SUB J:
Approve Proposed Fee Schedule for Materials Testing for 2002
Municipal Construction Projects - PW009D
Requested Action
Approve the attached contract with Braun Intertec Corporation for materials
testing in 2002.
Discussion
The City does several projects per year that require various types of specialized
testing. Because of the personnel, training, and equipment costs and the amount
of testing done each year, it is more cost effective to contract for this testing.
In the past, the City has contracted for the testing as a sub-contract to the
consultant doing the project design. While this has worked, it has meant that the
City did not have a contract to do testing on in-house work or private
development.
The attached contract is on a per each basis. In addition to testing for public
improvement projects like Project No. 01-08, the City also intends to test work
done by the City Maintenance Crew.
This type of testing is appropriate for use in data gathering in preparation of plans
and specifications for an improvement project and for quality assurance.
Attachments: 1. Contract
c: Henry Bloo, Braun Intertec Corporation
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Ci~. qf Chanhassen. A growing community with clean lakes, quality schools, a charming downtown, thrivin~ businesses, and beautiful parks. A ereat place to live, work, and play.
BRAUNTM
INTERTEC
Braun Intertec Corporation
6801 Washington Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55439.1500
952-941-5600 Fax: 941-4151
Engineers and Scientists Serving
the Built and Natural Environments-~
January 15, 2002
Proposal BABX-02-P0020
Mr. Bill Bement
City of Chanhassen
690 City Center Drive
P.O. Box 147
Chanhassen, MN 55317
Dear Mr. Bement:
Re:
Proposed Fee Schedule for Materials Testing, 2002 Municipal Construction Projects,
Chanhassen, Minnesota
As you requested, we are providing you with our fee schedule to complete testing for soils, concrete
and bituminous as the City completes a number of municipal construction projects.
The cost to provide the services is listed in Table 1.
Table 1. Materials Testing Fee Schedule
Soils
1. Proctor $104.00/each
2. Density Test
3. Gradations
4. Trip Charge
$10.00/each
$81.00/each
$75.00/each
Bituminous
1. Extraction $97.00/each
2. Gradation $68.00/each
3. Complete Marshall Test'(stability, air voids, s~avity, etc.) $150.00/each
4. Core Sample
5. Density Test
$70.00/each
$10.00/each
6.____Trip Charge $75.00/each
Concrete - Curb/Gutter
~um (slum~ cylinders, 1 set of 3) $150.00/each
2._..~Cylinder Pickup
$75.00/each
Braun Intertec appreciates the opportunity to present this proposal to the City of Chanhassen. It is
being presented in duplicate so if it is acceptable, the original can be retained for your records and the
copy can be signed and returned to us in its entirety, including the General Conditions, as written
authorization to proceed.
City of Chanhassen
Proposal BABX-02-P0020
January 15, 2002
Page 2
The fee schedule presented in this proposal will be valid for the calendar year 2002. If services other
than those described are required, we will provide them at our 2002 fee schedule less a 10 percent
discount.
Payment for services is due upon receipt of invoice, with interest added to unpaid balances after 30
days, in accordance with the attached General Conditions which are a part of this proposed contract.
If there are questions regarding this fee schedule, please call Henry Vloo at (952) 942-1779.
Sincerely,
Braun Intertec Corporation
Henry Vloo,' PE
Associate - Senior Engineer
Attachments:
General Conditions (2/96)
Authorization to Proceed:
Please proceed according to the described scope of services and General Conditions:
Date
Client Name
Authorized Signature
Title
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BRAUN
INTERTEC
General Conditions
Our agreement with you consists of these
General Conditions and the accompanying
written proposal or authorization.
Section 1: Our Responsit~ilities
1.1 We will provide the professional
services described in our written agree-
ment with you. We will provide you with
written reports containing professional
opinions and recommendations. In
performing our services, we will use that
degree of care and skill ordinarily
exercised under similar circumstances by
reputable members of our profession
practicing in the same locality.
1.2 Our work will be conducted using
appropriate procedures and protocols. If
you direct us to deviate from our recom-
mended procedures, you agree to hold us
harmless from all claims, damages, and
expenses arising out of your direction.
1.3 There is an inherent risk that samples
or observations may not be representative
of things not sampled or seen and, further,
that conditions may change over time. We
will reference our field observations and
sampling to available reference points. We
will not survey, set, or check the accuracy
of those points unless we accept that duty
in `,vriting.
1.4 Our duties do not include supervising
your contractors or commenting on,
overseeing, or providing the means and
methods of their work, unless we accept
those duties in writing. We will not be
responsible for the failure of your
contractors to perform in accordance with
their undertakings, and the providing of
our services will not relieve others of their
responsibilities to you or to others.
1.5 We will provide a health and safety
program for our employees, but we will
not be responsible for contractor, job, or
site health or safety unless we accept that
duty in writing.
Section 2: Your Responsi$ilities
2.1 You ,,,,,ill provide access to the site. We
will use reasonable care to minimize
damage to the site. In the course of our
work some site damage is normal even
when due care is exercised. We have not
included the cost of restoration of normal
damage in the estimated charges. At your
option and expense, we will correct
normal damage. We agree to be respon-
sible for damage that is caused by our
negligence.
2.2 You agree to provide us, in a timely
manner, with the information that you
have regarding buried objects located at
the site. Until we have completed our field
work, you agree to provide us with all
your plans, changes in plans, and new
information that refer to site conditions.
You agree to hold us harmless from all
claims, damages, losses, and related
expenses involving buried objects of
which you had knowledge but did not
timely call to our attention or correctly
show on the plans furnished to us.
2.3 You will be responsible for the
cooperation of your employees and your
contractors in observing all radiation
safety standards after we notify you that
radiographic or gamma ray equipment or
other nuclear testing or measuring devices
are to be employed by us.
2.4 You will notify us of any knowledge
or suspicion of the presence of hazardous
materials in samples provided to us. You
will provide us with information in your
possession or control relating to contami-
nation at the site. If we observe or suspect
the presence of contaminants not
anticipated in our agreement, we may
terminate our work without liability to you
or others, and we will be paid for the
services we have provided.
2.5 Neither this agreement nor the
providing of services will operate to make
us an owner, operator, generator, trans-
porter, treater, storer, or a disposal facility
within the meaning of the Resource
Conservation Recovery Act, as amended,
or within the meaning of any other law
governing the handling, treatment, storage,
or disposal of hazardous materials. You
agree to hold us harmless and indemnify
us from any such claim or loss.
2.6 Drilling, well installation, and
remediation services may involve risk of
cross-contamination of previously
uncontaminated air, soil, and water. If you
are requesting that we provide services
that include this risk, you agree to hold us
harmless and indemnify us from cross-
contamination claims and damages, unless
the loss is caused by our negligence.
2.7 You agree to make disclosures
required by law. In the event you do not
own the site, you acknowledge that it is
.','our duty to inform the owner of the
discovery or release of contaminants at the
site. You agree to hold us harmless and
indemnify us from all claims related to
disclosures made by us that are required
by law and from all claims related to the
informing or failure to inform the site
owner of the discovery of contaminants.
Section 3: Reports and Records
3.1 We will furnish reports to you in
duplicate. We will retain analytical data for
seven years and financial data for three
years relating to the services performed.
3.2 All samples remaining after tests are
conducted and field and laboratory
equipment that cannot be adequately
cleansed of contaminants are your
property. They will be discarded or
returned to you, at our discretion, unless
within 15 days of the report date you give