Rental Equipment

SCOPE OF WORK

Contractor(s) shall provide rental equipment on an as-needed basis throughout Lake County in conjunction with the County's needs.

This is an indefinite quantity contract, and County does not guarantee a minimum or maximum dollar amount to be expended on any contract(s) resulting from this solicitation.

RATES

Rental rates shall apply to the use of equipment only and shall not include delivery or pickup fees.

County reserves the right at its discretion to either:

Take possession of the equipment from Contractor's location and return it upon completion of use; or

Request delivery and pickup services from Contractor for an additional fee, as agreed upon in Attachment 3 - Pricing Sheet.

County will not be responsible for any maintenance on the equipment except for daily fueling and lubrication, as needed.

Daily rates shall be charged for equipment in County's possession up to twenty-four (24) hours.

Weekly rates shall be charged for equipment in County's possession for a consecutive seventy-two (72) hours and up to one hundred sixty-eight (168) hours.

Monthly rates shall be charged for equipment in County's possession for a consecutive twenty-one (21) days or five hundred four (504) hours.

Intent of the weekly and monthly rates is to establish cost savings for the County when a piece of equipment is utilized on a longer-term basis.

All exceptions to the equipment specifications shall be of equal or greater specifications and shall be clearly documented in the response.

DELIVERY REQUIREMENTS AND ACCEPTANCE

All equipment shall be delivered to one (1) of the Lake County Facilities shown below. The delivery location will be specified when the equipment is ordered:

Road Operations Center, 1290 County Landfill Road, Tavares, FL 32778

Maintenance Area 1, 2310 W. Griffin Road, Leesburg, FL 34748

Maintenance Area 2, 609 Disston Avenue, Minneola, FL 34755

Maintenance Area 3, 19720 E. Fifth Street, Umatilla, FL 32784

Traffic Operations, 28127 CR 561, Tavares, FL 32778

Solid Waste, 13130 County Landfill Rd, Tavares, FL 32778

All equipment shall be received by 12PM to be charged for that day. Any equipment delivered after 12PM shall not accumulate a rental fee until the next business day.

Deliveries made after noon on Friday shall not begin accruing rental fees until Monday morning at 8AM.

County, at its discretion, reserves the right to pick up equipment directly from Contractor's location, in which case, no fee shall be charged for delivery.

Equipment shall be delivered full of fuel to be used in the daily operations of the rental.

County shall verify the amount of fuel upon delivery and indicate the amount on the delivery ticket.

County shall return the equipment with an equal or greater amount of fuel indicated at the time of delivery.

Equipment returned with less than the indicated fuel amount at the time of delivery shall be assessed a Refueling Service Charge.

Refueling Service Charge shall be calculated based on the current market rate of fuel at the time of return.

EQUIPMENT CONDITION

All equipment shall be in top, good, and safe operating condition to protect the operator and the public, and is subject to inspection by County Project Manager.

County reserves the right to reject any equipment that is determined by County to not be in this condition.

Contractor shall be responsible for costs associated with the transportation of any rejected equipment.

Contractor shall certify that equipment meets all Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements.

Contractor further certifies that if any of the equipment is found to be deficient of any OSHA requirement on the date of delivery, all costs necessary to bring the equipment into compliance with the aforementioned requirement, shall be the Contractor's responsibility.

All safety devices installed by the manufacturer shall be in place and in proper working order.

Any equipment that requires repair or replacement shall be done within forty-eight (48) hours of first notification.

County shall not be charged for the equipment during equipment downtime. Any repair that exceeds forty-eight (48) hours shall be replaced with an equal or greater precision replacement.

Contractor shall be responsible for maintaining and providing proof of insurance for all equipment rented by the County.

[End of Exhibit A.]