Explanation
The Public Service Department, Transportation Division, is pursuing the Watkins Road Sidewalks Improvement project. This project will construct new sidewalks on the north and south sides of Watkins Road between Lockbourne Road and the Watkins Road bridge. This legislation authorizes the Public Service Director to enter into a construction contract in an amount up to $230,472.00 and to pay construction inspection costs of up to $35,449.00. The estimated Notice to Proceed date is June 15, 2006. The contractor for this project has been given 60 days to complete the construction of the sidewalks. The project was bid by the Transportation Division and was advertised in the City Bulletin and Dodge Reports and by the Builders Exchange. Eleven bidders/suppliers were solicited (9 majority, 2 minority) and 9 bids were received (7 majority, 2 minority) and tabulated on March 12, 2006, as follows:
bidder / amount bid
Shelly and Sands / $230,472.00
G & G Cement Contractors / $270,187.50
McDaniel's Construction* / $271,085.10
Decker Construction Company / $297,718.30
Gaddis & Son* / $315,154.18
Miller Pavement / $331,406.06
Newcomer Concrete Services / $376,822.60
G. Marchi and Son / $381,411.36
Columbus Asphalt Pavement / $422,867.50
*minority bidders
Award is to be made to Shelly and Sands, Incorporated, contract compliance number 31-4351261 (expires April 11, 2008), as the lowest, best, most responsive and most responsible bidder.
Fiscal Impact: Funds for this improvement are budgeted within the Transportation Division's 2005 Capital Improvements Budget in the 1995, 1999, 2004 Voted Streets and Highways Fund in the pedestrian safety improvements project in the amount of $500,000.00.
Emergency action is requested to enhance pedestrian safety as soon as possible and to allow construction to commence on June 15, 2006.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to enter into a contract with Shelly and Sands, Incorporated, for construction of the Watkins Road Sidewalks Improvement project for the Transportation Division; to authorize the expenditure of $265,921.00 or so much thereof as may be needed from the 1995, 1999, 2004 Voted Streets and Highways; and to declare an emergency. ($265,921.00)
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WHEREAS, bids were received on March 9, 2006, and tabulated on March 13, 2006, for the Watkins Road Sidewalks Improvement project and a satisfactory bid has been received; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to provide for construction inspection costs; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, in that the contract should be awarded immediately so that the work may proceed without delay to enhance pedestrian safety and to allow construction to commence on June 15, 2006, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Public Service Director be and hereby is authorized to enter into a contract with Shelly and Sands, Incorporated, 1515 Harmon Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43219, for the construction of the Watkins Road Sidewalks Improvement project in the amount of $230,472.00 for the Transportation Division in accordance with the specifications and plans therefore on file in the office of the Public Service Director, which are hereby approved, and to obtain and pay for the necessary inspection costs associated with the project up to a maximum of $35,449.00 therefore.
SECTION 2. That for the purpose of paying the cost of the contract and inspection, the sum of $265,921.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and hereby is authorized to be expended from Fund 704, the 1995, 1999, 2004 Voted Streets and Highways Fund, Department No. 59-09, Transportation Division, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6631, OCA Code 644385 and project 590105.
SECTION 3. 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 ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.