2016-129-E AMS - ECS Carolinas, LLP for geotechnical services, Phase I ESA for Environmental & Agicultural Center

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DocuSign Envelope ID: 3B7FF6D8-761 B-4C88-A691-9E7C554A969C January 7, 2016 0 ECS CAROLINAS, LLP PRELIMINARY ITEMS Utility Locate Location of existing utilities must be addressed before beginning on-site exploratory work, as follows: • ECS will contact the public utility locator service—North Carolina One-Call Center—to request that utilities be marked prior to performing exploratory work (digging, drilling, etc.). The North Carolina One-Call Center will subsequently contact the utility companies typically known to have utilities located in the vicinity of the project site. Normally, this includes water, gas, sewer, electrical power, telephone, and cable. The individual companies mark their utilities using spray paint, but only extend to the meter. It will be Orange County Asset Management & Purchasing's responsibility to identify other utilities. • ECS hereby asks that Orange County Asset Management& Purchasing notify us of all utilities located on site, particularly those utilities beyond the meter or private utilities not identified by the North Carolina One-Call Center. While ECS will take precautions to avoid utilities of which the owner notifies ECS, ECS is not responsible for utilities not marked by the North Carolina One-Call Center. • ECS can retain a private locator to locate utilities beyond the meters and private utilities. Hiring Private Locator services is beyond the scope of this proposal and is not included. However, for an additional fee of$900.00, ECS can retain a private locator to locate utilities beyond the meters and private utilities. If this is needed on this project, please so indicate on the attached "Proposal Acceptance Form" by initialing the "Private Utility Location" line. SCHEDULE OF WORK ECS will begin the above scope of work immediately after receiving your written authorization to proceed. ECS' work starts with us contacting the public utility locator service, but we cannot begin work on site until location work is completed (usually within 72 hours, excluding weekends and holidays). Based on current availability and weather permitting, ECS anticipates its field work will begin within about five business days of written authorization to proceed. We anticipate that the field work will take about two business days to complete, and the reports will be provided within 15 business days after receiving written authorization to proceed. In order to maintain this schedule, it is critical that ECS receives your written authorization, special instructions and distribution list in a timely manner. AUTHORIZATION If the scope of work as outlined above and the attached Terms and Conditions are acceptable to you, please sign the attached Proposal Acceptance Form on behalf of Orange County Asset Management & Purchasing and return one copy of the Proposal Acceptance Form to ECS. Please note that the attached Terms and Conditions of Service are incorporated herein by reference and are an integral part of this agreement between us. Alternatively, you could issue a letter of acceptance or purchase order. If you opt to do so, ECS would ask that you include the proposal number and date hereof on such documents in order to incorporate this proposal by reference. By signing the Proposal Acceptance Form—or by referencing this proposal in other documents intended to authorize ECS to proceed with the scope of services described above—you are accepting the Terms a ECS Proposal Nos. 06:19464 and 06:19465 Page 16 O'"