Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Director to enter into a contract on behalf of the Office of Construction Management with DLZ for a professional services contract (design and construction administration) for Compressed Natural Gas infrastructure for the City of Columbus at 2333 Morse Road.
This CNG station will be designed similar to the recently completed CNG station at 4211 Groves Rd. This station will provide rapid dispensing of compressed natural gas to the City's growing fleet of energy efficient CNG fueled vehicles. In addition to providing fuel to city owned vehicles this station will be designed for public access as well. As outlined in Mayor Coleman's Green Memo, CNG infrastructure needs to be put into place to support the growing number of city owned fleet vehicles that operate with compressed natural gas.
Included in this cost, DLZ Ohio, Inc. will provide a site assessment and a schematic drawing of a yet another city owned CNG facility to be constructed on the Columbus' west side. This assessment will include site assessment, sizing of existing natural gas piping in the area, and preliminary engineering of the facility. A contract modification will be necessary to fully fund the design of this west side facility; however, to keep momentum of the CNG initiative moving forward and to more fully and completely budget it is prudent to begin the initial design now.
Requests for Statements and Qualifications were available on April 2, 2012, and submitted on April 30, 2012. The City received three proposals (0 FBE, 1*MBE): *DLZ Ohio Inc., Adonai Building Company, and Kramer. The selection of the vendor for professional services is in accordance with the competitive bidding provisions of the Columbus City Code.
Emergency action is requested so that the necessary professional services may be accomplished without delay, to better serve the needs of the City and to create operational efficiencies.
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