SSN draft Performance Work Statement-PRS

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SECTION D – PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS)

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INTRODUCTION

1.1.
Background. Western Federal Lands Highway Division (WFLHD), a division of the US Department of Transportation – Federal Highway Administration, designs and administers, primarily, road construction projects on Federal Lands in the states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. The type of construction is generally 2-lane roads or highways either accessing Federal lands or within Federal lands. The objective of this requirement is to secure comprehensive technical inspection and preventive maintenance, calibration, standardization, and certification services for analytical and scientific laboratory equipment as well as as-needed adjustments and/or repairs to maintain compliance with federal, national, and international standards including ANSI, ASME, ASTM, IEC, ISO or other recognized consensus standards to ensure measurement integrity, operational safety, and regulatory readiness.
Additionally, this procurement will support the laboratory’s qualitymanagement, accreditation, and audit requirements while minimizing equipment downtime and preserving the integrity of testing activities.
1.2.
Scope. The Contractor shall provide all management, supervisory personnel, labor, materials, tools, reference standards, software, test equipment, and transportation necessary to inspect, calibrate, standardize, and certify materials testing laboratory equipment in accordance with the equipment manufacturer’s requirements, applicable consensus standards, approved laboratory procedures, and generally accepted metrology practices. Additionally, the Contractor shall provide all labor, supervision, diagnostic equipment, replacement parts, tools, transportation, and materials required to perform out-of-cycle diagnostic troubleshooting, corrective repairs, alignment, and post-repair operational verification and restore affected laboratory equipment to fully operational manufacturer specifications. Work shall be performed by qualified personnel using standards and test equipment with current, documented traceability to the International System of Units through an appropriate national or international metrology institute.
Services apply to both standard benchtop and specialized laboratory assets, including but not limited to, universal testing machines, load frames, load cells, extensometers, displacement transducers, force and torque measurement devices, hardness testers, impact testers,