The Preferred Method of Securing a Prefabricated Waste Water Lift Station
It all started with ISTEA, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act. This act allowed states under the Federal Aid Highway Program to forego open and competitive bidding procurement for the alternative method of contracting of Design/Build. It is a comprehensive and voluminous document that sadly excludes most small business participation and rather taints the basis of the free enterprise system as all business shall have equal access to markets.
The Prefabricated Waste Water Lift Station is chosen as the first small business goal, under the “design /build’ method of procurement by the Small Business Act, under the slogan, “Give Small Business a Chance to Compete”
The Nations Waste Water Lift Stations Need immediate Repairs and Many More Need Replacement. The Prefabricated Waste Water Lift Station by design fulfills most facets of the Design Build method of procurement, with the additional inherent benefit of being able to ship the main components of a Taylor Made Prefabricated Waste Water Lift Station within a 3-4 week time frame!
Taylor Made Prefabricated Waste Water Lift Stations and their components are already protecting parts of the Oregon coast, Private installations such as mobile home park “Lift Stations” and micro lift stations at residential developments. With these models in place why not have a proven “Prefabricated Waste Water Lift Station” available quickly to other state and national governments. The “Team” at Taylor Made Pump Stations applauds the efforts of all state and federal officials to give the same opportunities afforded to large corporations under the “Design/Build, bid format to small business.
Bonus clauses written into the articles under the Small Business Act, to parallel the highly favorable language for early completion monetary awards afforded large corporations. This would benefit all small businesses especially pre-fab waste water lift station suppliers.
At “Taylor Made Pump Stations” we design in quality with easy to assemble and ship components. We welcome the challenge of the early completion bonuses and or liquidated damage clauses. What’s more the government should recognize the importance to the public to having the smaller projects completed early just as their counterparts are recognized for early completion of the larger projects.
Whereas the dollars saved in inspection time, insurance costs, and the costs of bond money is relative in scale to the size of the project, small business would appreciate a $500.00 per day early completion bonus. If the liquidated damage assessment is $500.00 per day as a cost to the tax payer then why not an incentive to save the money for that same taxpayer. Taylor Made Pump Stations stands ready to save the Government money on the three factors of savings associated with “Design/Build, bid procurement, initial engineering design cost, duration /time to deliver bid documents, and the energy savings in up to date technology designed into each and every Taylor “Prefabricated Waste Water lift Station!