2.1 Gwinnett County requires that the Awarded Laboratory shall be geographically located within specific Georgia counties. 2.1.1 For the Bid Schedule tables associated with Sections A-F, Gwinnett County requires that the awarded lab(s) shall be geographically located within the following Georgia counties: Barrow, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, Rockdale, Walton. All samples will be hand delivered. 2.1.2 For FOG, VFA (Section G) and HSW analyses only, the lab is not required to be in the referenced counties above. Gwinnett County requires only a location at which samples can be dropped off. Any costs associated with sending off samples to other laboratories shall be included in the unit pricing. All other analyses are for compliance purposes. The laboratory should have proof of state certification and a valid Quality Assurance/ Quality Control Manual. 2.2 Gwinnett County requires adherence to the correct holding times found in the applicable EPAapproved method. It will be the Awarded Laboratories responsibility to analyze the sample(s) within the appropriate holding times. 2.3 “Turnaround Time” is defined as that period of elapsed time between the date of delivery of the sample to the Laboratory and the date that the analyte result is e-mailed to DWR. All notifications shall be via e-mail and shall be sent to the specified DWR division representatives. A list of the representatives will be provided to the awarded lab(s). 2.4 The Awarded Laboratories must meet requested turnaround times. 2.5 An Awarded Laboratory that fails to meet any obligation under this contract will be notified via email that the first violation has been noted and recorded. Upon identification of a second violation, the Awarded laboratory will receive a final notice of violation and be reminded that any subsequent violations will result in the third violation sanctions described immediately below. For a third or other subsequent violation, DWR may 1) cease using the firm that has violated the agreement and will seek from the violating firm reimbursement of any differential cost incurred by DWR in having to utilize an alternate service provider; OR 2) require the rewriting of the Quality Control/Quality Assurance manual (Section 4) so as to address the cause of the violation and prevent a recurrence. DWR will have up to 10 business days to review/comment/approve the rewritten QA/QC manual. 2.6 Gwinnett County reserves the right to inspect the premises and view the equipment, raw data and quality assurance documentation at any time after the bid opening and/or during the term of the contract. 2.7 The Awarded Lab(s) shall comply with the approved chain of custody procedures. A copy of the fully completed chain of custody document will be supplied by the contracted lab along with the analysis results, as specified in Section 2.2, and in compliance with Section 2.4.
