Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into agreements for General Engineering Services for the Water Distribution Group with Stantec Consulting Services, Inc. (Contract No. 2007) and HDR Engineering, Inc. (Contract No. 2008), each in the amount of $250,000.00, for 2013 through 2015.
These agreements will establish a "blanket" type of service agreement to augment existing engineering personnel within the Water Distribution Group, on an as-authorized, as-needed basis. Work consists of investigations, inspections and evaluations of existing conditions, surveying, geotechnical investigations, report preparation, easement preparation, preparation of drawings and specifications, maintenance of traffic plans, preparing bid and construction contract documents, services during construction, and preparation of record plan drawings.
Since services are used on an as-needed basis, two consulting firms are selected in the event that a firm cannot perform the expedited services that are required for our assignments.
2. ECONOMIC IMPACT/ADVANTAGES; COMMUNITY OUTREACH; PROJECT DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS/ADVANTAGES OF PROJECT: These agreements will allow the Division to perform miscellaneous engineering tasks on an as-needed basis. Outreach and environmental impact is unknown since the exact type and location of work is unknown at this time.
3. BID INFORMATION: The selection of the firms providing the professional engineering services has been performed in accordance with the procedures set forth in Columbus City Code, Section 329.14, "Awarding professional service contracts through requests for proposals." The evaluation criteria for this contract included: 1. competence, 2. quality and feasibility of the offeror's technical proposal, 3. offeror's workload/availability and 4. environmentally preferable offeror. The Division also scored on Project Approach and use of a Local Work Force.
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