Common use of Acceptance Test Process Clause in Contracts

Acceptance Test Process. 24 The Equipment Acceptance Test will be conducted over three (3) consecutive operating 25 days. The operating day shall be eight (8) hours in duration inclusive of scheduled break 26 periods (e.g. lunch, break, and scheduled clean-up). The start-time, break-time, end- 27 time will be predetermined by the Contractor and approved by the Authority. The 28 processing system run-time during the Equipment Acceptance Test, will be equal to time 29 the system is running and does not include scheduled break-times. Each operating day, 30 the Contractor is allowed thirty (30) minutes of unscheduled downtime. Equipment 31 stoppages that are not equipment related shall not be regarded as system downtime. 32 33 The following data will be recorded during the Equipment Acceptance Test: 34 1. The individual and aggregate weights of all Process Materials (product and 35 residual) generated during the Equipment Acceptance Test. 36 2. Start-time, break-time, stop-time, downtime, and total run-time. 37 3. Logs of all maintenance, repairs, and adjustments to processing system 38 performed by the Contractor during each test period. 39 4. General observations about the processing system’s performance during the 40 test period. 42 Process Materials 43 The Process Materials for the Equipment Acceptance Test shall be commercial and 44 residential materials as collected by the Collection Contractor within the SBWMA service 45 area If the test is conducted prior to SBWMA residential single stream material being 46 available for the test, the Process Materials will be prepared at the Shoreway facility by: 47 (i) importing single stream materials from a Bay Area location that has similar 48 demographics to the SBWMA’s area; or (ii) by mixing the collected source separated 49 fiber and container streams collected from inbound curbside route trucks. 50 1 Process Materials shall be clean, not have excessive moisture nor be unduly 2 compacted. Ninety-five percent (95%) by weight of Process Materials shall consist of 3 Targeted Recyclable Materials consisting of approximately 45% ONP, 15% Mix Paper, 4 15% OCC, 1.5% Ferrous Metal, 1.5% PET, 1% HDPE natural, 1% HDPE color, 0.5% 5 Mixed Rigid Plastic, 0.4% Aluminum cans, 12% glass, and 1% mixed metals.