Explanation
This legislation authorizes the Public Service Director to enter into a contract in an amount up to $6,506,721.01 for the Resurfacing 2006 Project 1 project and to pay construction inspection costs up to $455,470.47 on behalf of the Transportation Division. This improvement details the planing and overlaying of various streets and the construction of wheelchair ramps. The estimated Notice to Proceed date is May 15, 2006. The contractor has been given 180 days in which to complete the construction of the project. The project was let by the Transportation Division and was advertised in the City Bulletin and Dodge Reports and by the Builders Exchange. Fourteen bidders/suppliers were solicited (twelve majority, two minority) and six bids were received (all majority) on March 2, 2006, as follows:
bidder / amount bid
Strawser Paving Company, Incorporated / $6,506,721.01
Decker Construction Company / $6,682,537.79
Kokosing Construction Company / $6,839,857.22
Shelly and Sands, Incorporated / $6,845,444.71
Shelly Company / $6,867,725.64
Miller Pavement Maintenance, Incorporated / $6,964,844.53
It is recommended that award of the contract be made to Strawser Paving Company, Incorporated, contract compliance number 31-4412354 (expires March 9, 2007), as the lowest, best, most responsive and most responsible bidder.
Fiscal Impact: This ordinance requires $6,962,191.48. The sum of $8,022,656.00 is budgeted within the Transportation Division's 2005 Capital Improvement Budget in the 1995, 1999, 2004 Voted Streets and Highways Fund in the Resurfacing project.
Emergency action is requested to allow construction to begin on May 15, 2006.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to enter into a contract with Strawser Paving Company, Incorporated, for the Resurfacing 2006 Project 1 project for the Transportation Division; to authorize the expenditure of $6,962,191.48 or so much thereof as may be necessary from the 1995, 1999, 2004 Voted Streets and Highways Fund and to declare an emergency. ($6,962,191.48)
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WHEREAS, bids were received on March 2, 2006 for the Resurfacing 2006 Project 1 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 Transportation Division in that the contract should be awarded immediately so that the work my proceed without delay to assure its timely completion, 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 Strawser Paving Company, Incorporated, 1595 Frank Road, Columbus, Ohio 43223 for the Resurfacing 2006 Project 1 project in the amount of $6,506,721.01 for the Transportation Division in accordance with the specifications and plans 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 $455,470.47.
SECTION 2. That for the purpose of paying the cost of the contract and inspection, the sum of $6,962,191.48 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 530282.
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.
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