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| | In 2004, the Government of Canada and the Province of Nova Scotia signed a Memorandum of Agreement to develop a local benefits strategy that optimizes economic employment, capacity building, community participation, and educational impacts within the surrounding communities.
To view a copy of the Local Economic Beneifts Information Booklet for reporting period April 2008 to March 2008, click here.
The Sydney Tar Ponds Agency (STPA) has set out a framework to optimize economic benefits from the cleanup of the Tar Ponds and Coke Ovens sites.
Local Economic Benefits constitute a major component of all bids with a 15-point weighting in the evaluation process. Submissions will be judged on quantifiable benefit targets.
A two-step model has been developed.
The process is as follows:
Step 1 - Interested Bidders are asked to submit a cost bid.The bid with the lowest Estimated Contract Price will receive 85 points. The bid with the next lowestEstimated Contract Price would receive a score that is inversely proportional to the lowest bid (lowest Estimated Contract Price/Estimated Contract Pricex 85). The bid with the third lowest Estimated Contract Price bid would receive a lower score pro-rated against the lowest Estimated Contract Price and so forth.STPA will reject bids with an Estimated Contract Price equal to or higher than the lowest compliant Estimated Contract Price +0.06 X lowest Estimated Contract Price.
Step 2 - In addition to the cost bid sheet, interested Bidders are required to submit local economic benefits worksheets employing the format used herein. To be submitted is a description of the physical location and operating characteristics of the responding enterprise with clear indication of the amount of work performed by Cape Breton-Mulgrave area, Nova Scotia, Canada or Foreign residents in its employ; a breakdown of the value of labour inputs for the tender in question, including Subcontractors by type or category and by origin, that is Cape Breton-Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada or Foreign; and a breakdown of contributions to community calculated as a percentage of aggregate payroll for the twelve months immediately proceeding the date of submission of the bid as well as for the intended term of the Contract.
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Tender Issued for Protective Cap
July 20, 2010 - The Sydney Tar Ponds Agency has released a tender for the construction of a protective cap over treated tar ponds sediment.It's the third step in a series of projects leading to the future development of the remediated site.Construction of the multi-layer protective cap will begin in the fall, and is scheduled for completion in summer, 2013. It will include a grading/bedding layer, a geosynthetic clay layer, a geocomposit drainage layer, protective fill, topsoil and hydro seed. The cap is designed to direct rain and groundwater into an engineered channel that will also carry brook water to the mouth of Sydney Harbour. The tender closes Aug. 10. More than 70 per cent of the south pond, located between Prince Street and the Ferry Street Bridge, has been solidified and stabilized. Treatment of the entire pond is expected to be completed in August. It will be followed by the construction of a channel to allow brook water and groundwater to flow through the site and into the harbour. In January 2007, the government of Canada and province of Nova Scotia committed $400 million to ensure the Tar Ponds and Coke Ovens cleanup is completed by 2014. S&S Work Restarts In South Pond
03/23/10 The Sydney Tar Ponds Agency is pleased to announce that the cleanup has kicked into high gear with the restart of solidification and stabilization in the south tar pond. Contractors began the cement work today (Tuesday, March 23, 2010). The process includes using an excavator to mix cement powder into the contaminated sediment, similar to the way a baker mixes ingredients when making a cake. The contract requires that each completed cell meets established criteria for permeability, leachability, and strength. For more on this contract, please click here. It's expected that the south pond (from Prince Street to Ferry Street Bridge) will be completely solidified and stabilized by the end of summer, 2010. Air monitors are operating in real-time at the project fence line, and also operating within the work site as part of the Master Occupational Health and Safety Plan for the project. To receive daily air monitoring reports, please click here. To view a video clip of work from 2009, please right click here and select save target as. You must download the file in order to view it properly.
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