jar546
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Are the inspectors government employees or contracted agencies?
Not a good website addressCoug Dad said:jar,The contracts are awarded typically one of two ways. Some firms have IDIQ contracts where the agency will contract specific task orders. Other times, the feds will advertise in fedbizops.gov and choose from those firms that respond.
usually no onejar546 said:Are the inspectors government employees or contracted agencies?
In my experience, left up to the contractor and/or construction manager and/or architect of record.brudgers said:To the degree that the Federal government hires outside companies to do inspections, there are firms which specialize in it. I would anticipate that the paperwork would bury a firm not prepared to handle it.
I would also anticipate that the firms which specialize in this work have employees who formerly worked on Federal projects in a capacity which gave them expertise.
In my opinion, it's a market which has significant barriers to entry.
Interesting because at the county airport I work at, the FAA is building a new tower on land leased from us and the local AHJ can't step foot on the property. The local fire department tried to mandate some local fire code amendments and the FAA politely declined to implement them. Even the local dust cops (air quality monitors) don't step foot on their project.Architect1281 said:Federal Project on FederaL PROPERTY = Fed Inspection Federal Project on Leased or state land = State / local jurisdiction for inspection
In CFR ther is and exemption by the Feds themselves from fees to state or local jurisdiction
for review and inspection of course,
so we in RI review and inspect the Fed project on State or lease land.