Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to execute a construction contract with the Complete General Construction Company, Inc. in the amount of $1,706,577.72 for the Maize/Morse Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project.
Due to Complete General Construction Company's failure to properly execute the Proposal Bond at the time of the bid, the Division is requesting Council to waive the competitive bidding requirements of the Columbus City Codes in order to allow this award. Only two bids were submitted for this project, Complete General Construction Company's was $1,706,577.72; and Environmental Pipeliners was $2,288,860.80. This ordinance further requests Council to amend the 2003 Capital Improvements Budget in order to provide sufficient funds to accommodate this expenditure.
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To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to execute a construction contract with the Complete General Construction Company, Inc., for the Maize/Morse Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project; to waive the competitive procurement provisions of the Columbus City Codes, to authorize the appropriation of $1,937,577.71, and the expenditure of $1,706,577.72 from the Ohio Water Pollution Control Loan Fund; to amend the 2003 Capital Improvements Budget; for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, and to declare an emergency. ($1,706,577.72)
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WHEREAS, two competitive bids for the construction of the Maize/Morse Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project were received on July 2, 2003, and
WHEREAS, the low bidder, the Complete General Construction Company, Inc., failed to submit a properly executed Proposal Bond at the time the bids were received, whereupon the Division of Sewerage and Drainage has determined it to be in the best interest of the City to request this Council to waive the competitive bidding provisions of the Columbus City Codes, which is necessary to allow this award; and
WHEREAS, the Ohio Water Development Authority approved a loan to the City of Columbus on July 31, 2003 in the amount of $1,953,041.29, identified as OWDA Loan No. CS392484-01; and
WHEREAS, it is immediately necessary for the City Council to both appropriate the proceeds from the aforementioned loan agreement and to authorize the expenditure of funds from the Ohio Water Pollution Control Loan Fund; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Sewerage and Drainage in that is immediately necessary to waive the competitive procurement requirements of the Columbus City Codes pursuant to authorizing the Director of Public Utilities to execute a contract for the construction of the Maize/Morse Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project; to appropriate and authorize the expenditure of the proceeds from the aforementioned loan; and to amend the 2003 Capital Improvements Budget; thereby preserving the public health, peace and safety; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the proceeds from the Ohio Water Development Authority Loan No. CS392484-01, for the Maize/Morse Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project; and funds from the unappropriated monies in Fund 666, the amount of $1,937,577.71 for the cost of construction services, the design services and construction inspection services, is hereby appropriated to the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Division 60-05, Fund No. 666; Object Level Three 6630; OCA Code 666658; Project Account 650658.
Section 2 That this Council finds that it is in the best interest of the City to waive the provisions of Columbus City Code, Section 329.06, to authorize the Director of Public Utilities to execute a contract for sewer rehabilitation services with the Complete General Construction Company, Inc., who submitted a defective Proposal Bond, in order for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage to be able to award the contract this low bidder.
Section 3 That the Director of Public Utilities be, and hereby is, authorized to award and execute a contract for the construction of the Maize/Morse Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project, with the lowest, and best bidder, the Complete General Construction Company, Inc., 1221 East Fifth Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43219, in the amount of $1,706,577.72 in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Contract on file in the office of the Division of Sewerage and Drainage.
Section 4. That for the purpose of paying the cost of construction contract, the expenditure of $1,706,577.72, or as much thereof as may be needed, is hereby authorized from the Ohio Water Pollution Control Loan Fund No. 666; Division 60-05; Project 650658; OCA Code 666658; Object Level 3 No. 6630.
Section 5 That the 2003 Capital Improvements Budget Ordinance No. 1943-2003 is hereby amended as follows, in order to provide sufficient budget authority for the award of the construction contract for the aforementioned project:
CURRENT:
650491-Big Walnut Augment./Rickenbacker Interceptor-$120,092,000.00
650658-Maize/Morse Sanitary Sewer Rehab. Project-$1,300,000.00
AMENDED TO:
650491-Big Walnut Augment./Rickenbacker Interceptor-$119,685,422.00 (reduction of $406,578.00)
650658-Maize/Morse Sanitary Sewer Rehab. Project-$1,706,578.00
Section 6. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor or 10 days after its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.