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6. In the insurance requirement on page 5, Section 3.9.4, it indicates that you want copies of the certificates of insurance attached to the RFP, is that correct, or is that after award of bid? That would be after the award. 7. Cubic yard vs. tonnage, did you say it can go either way depending on the availability of a scale? The suggestions are to get both prices to see which way that we want to advise the City to use because FEMA is encouraging the tonnage rate to do it by weight instead of by cubic yardage, but most everyone down here has done it by cubic yardage in the past. We don't know that there are enough scales available for temporary site use down here for rental by local applicants to use that, you don't want to wait six (6) hours per truck to go to a scale, so it is going to depend on some logistical issues, and that is one of the things we are trying to work out right now with the County is to have the availability of a temporary site should we need it otherwise it is just going to go straight to the final disposal and if the wait times are going to be bad then we are probably going to do it on a cubic yardage basis. 8. Will the contractor be required to supply the scale? That is not in the proposal, right now we don't have a temporary site. It would be one of the County's and so that would depend on whether the County decides to utilize that method and we are not sure that they are going to go in that direction. It would likely be a function of the disposal facility. 9. Do you have any idea if the contractor can have their own temporary disposal site? That is something that we did not make a provision for, it is something that can be addressed, the temporary site would have to go through a review first. 10. As far as the vehicles, it goes through the Miami-Dade Solid Management requirement to have registration stickers, that would probably be waived? No, especially if you are billing on a cubic yardage basis, you cannot take any debris out of the City and load up a truck until it has gone through a certification process and it will be labeled and placard as the RFP dictates. That is really important, even if for some reason it starts with cubic yardage and it changes to tonnage if the disposal facility facilitates one faster than the other either way we don't want to take a chance with any Federal funding since that has been such a huge issue so everything will be definitely measured very well. 11. What was the major challenge after the last storm? Sunny Isles Beach was fortunate in they didn't have a bid process before the last storm, and they had a landscaping company that has an emergency procurement clause in their contract so they were able to utilize them to just come in on an emergency basis and do this removal work for them and it went fairly smoothly, they might have liked it to be done a little faster because it took a little over a month, and it was about 20,000 yards and they just chipped as they went and that worked pretty well, and now they want to go through the formal bid process and get everything lined up, and hopefully get all the resources out here that they need. In general, the biggest problem in all of South Florida was the lack of education of the local applicants, the cities and the counties. That is changing hopefully, there has been a lot of training going on by FEMA, the State, FDOT, and to educate the applicants on a list of everything they need to do before they even start the debris operation. The paperwork is one of the biggest issues. That is something that will be reviewed in great detail as your paperwork comes in with all of the information because if you are tasked with clearing those Federal aid roads, that has to be 08-07-01 Addendum No.1 Prebid l\linutes.doc Page 5 of 7