Transportation Between the Island and the Mainland

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b) other materials resources need

- work force

- knowledge

- technology

c) excepted commitments from other department in support

The contractor shall assist in resolving technical issues presented to the help desk. The contractor shall provide support staff with the technical experience and expertise to diagnose and resolve issues in a complex, multi-application environment based on a three-tiered architecture. The contractor shall provide staff with sufficient business knowledge in support of the applications to understand and provide assistance with any user issues of a non-technical nature. Due to ongoing efforts to consolidate services for the economy of scale and its administration is planned that xxx will be absorbing the OCE infrastructure. The first steps will include transitioning to xx the hosting, maintenance and management of web sites and applications not directly related to the public mission of OCE. The agency anticipates that this transition will begin during the timeframe of the award of this SOW and will require the addition of tasks and personnel with specific expertise to accomplish.

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4. Risk and Concern

- Environment risk

- Hazards of working over water.

- Weather.

- Client expectation risk

- Client unhappy of the work progress.

- Not satisfy.

- Competitive risk

- Cost reductions and quality improvements

- Resources (worker’s skill)

- Risk in project development (technical)

- Unrealistic schedule and budgeting in the project.

- Budget problem.

- Overall risk assessment

- Client

- Staff

- Risk mitigation or abatement strategies (how to reduce risk)

- Choose structural form and material with respect to future maintenance

- Consider reducing the number of piers by increasing the length of spans

- Ensure that fabricated components can be safely handled and lifted by incorporating lifting points in the design

- Include facilities for safe access for future maintenance and repair

- Examine demolition and replacement as an alternative to frequent repair of old bridges

- Take account of weather sensitivity when defining the maintenance/repair programme

- Choose repair processes which generate less noise, dust, waste and harmful substances

- Select repair and application methods which use remotely controlled equipment

5. Acceptance Criteria

- Detailed acceptance process and criteria

- The government has signed a few management contracts in the water sector and a management contract for the Penang Bridge that obligates the private firms to invest RM500 million in improvements and repairs. The employer’s requirements set out the project needs in terms of specification, function and performance of the project required and if applicable will also define planning and any other restrictions.

- They must design and build contract documentation for the project. It divided into three categories which are the first category is condition of contract, technical proposal and drawings. The condition of contract includes five aspects (letter acceptance, employer’s requirements, contractor’s proposal, contract sum analysis (CSA), and form of design guarantee form). The technical proposal includes the project specifications.

- The drawing aspects including the contract drawing, preliminary, construction, and as built. The design and build contract implemented in the Penang Bridge project provided some advantages for being acceptance. For example, singular responsibility concepts, better quality of product, time saving for the project and it can improve risk management.

- There are three criteria in the design concept used materials which are the bored pile, steel pile, and spun pile. The bores pile easily adapted to the various load and soil requirements due to large variety in construction techniques. It enables the immediate in-situ evaluation of drilled soil layers to revise foundation length due to changed soil conditions.

- Absence of vibration will not disturb adjacent piles. Steel pile have high load-carrying capacity for a given weight of pile, which can reduce driving costs. It also can be driven in very long lengths and cause little ground displacement and easy to splice. Spun pile faster, prefabricated allows longer length with less joint. It has an efficient mass to strength ratio. Piles can be with stand higher tension forces which make them suitable for cater wind load & earthquake problem.

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- Testing/qualification approach

- On the pile load test of Penang Bridge, 17 heavy trucks, each with an additional weight of 3.5 tons (59.5 tons in total), were arranged to run from Penang Island to the land side so as to ensure that the bridge with a 120 years’ guaranteed service life can load the theoretical weight. The test includes several modes, such as bridge center load and bridge edge load.

- In the test, the trucks ran on the main bridge in a line or in two lines to imitate the situations where the vehicles line up in case of traffic jams and where the large trucks cross the bridge side by side slowly. In this way, the load capacity of the main bridge was tested from all sides, which met the design standard. This comprehensively verifies the construction quality of the bridge and the technical strength of CHEC.

- Termination of project

- From the pile load test of