Explanation
Background: This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Director to enter into a professional services contract for the Facilities Management Division with Schorr Architects, Inc. for engineering consulting services in order to produce detailed plans for the Fire Training Center to be located at the Fire Training Complex at 3675 Parsons Avenue. Design services will include environmentally responsible components in compliance with the Mayor's policy directive "Get Green Columbus 2005: Environmental Stewardship in the 21st Century."
Schorr Architects, Inc. will be responsible for design and construction administration. The design phase will include the design of a practical skills building, a training tower, a burn building, a control building, a fire service props area, roadways, and a hydrant system. Responsibilities will also include progressive meetings with the City and the community through completion of agreed upon final product, complete zoning process, renderings, drawings, specifications, and the bid process. The construction administration phase will include shop drawings and submittal reviews, RFI and change order process, pay request review/approval, weekly site progress meetings, providing as built drawings/CAD files, with close out documentation upon completion of the project. The contract will also include an architectural contingency for City requested scope of work changes and unforeseen circumstances.
Formal Requests for Statements of Qualifications (RFSQ) were solicited by the City of Columbus in the City Bulletin from October 28, 2005 through November 7, 2005. The City received six minimally compliant proposals (1 MBE, 1 MBR, 1 FBE). A five-member evaluation committee reviewed the statements.
The committee ranked the statements of qualifications as follows: Schorr Architects, Inc. 862; Meacham & Apel Architects 820; DLZ Ohio, Inc. (MBR) 812; Prime Engineering & Architecture, Inc. (FBE) 787; Braun & Steidl Archtiects 780; Moody-Nolan, Inc. (MBE) 765.
Emergency action is requested so that work may begin as quickly as possible to improve Fire operations throughout the City.
Fiscal Impact: The Fire Division received $9,684,000.00 in the 2005 bond sale for this project, including professional services and construction. The actual project will be bid once the engineering is complete. The total cost of this professional services contract is $832,000.00. Schorr Architects, Inc. Contract Compliance Number 03-0499713, exp. 01/23/2007.
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To authorize the Finance and Management Director to enter into contract for the Facilities Management Division with Schorr Architects, Inc. for professional services related to the construction of the Fire Training Center to be located at the Fire Training Complex at 3675 Parsons Avenue, to authorize the expenditure of $832,000.00 from the Safety Voted Bond Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($832,000.00).
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus desires to design a Fire Training Center at the Fire Training Complex at 3675 Parsons Avenue to better meet the current and future needs of the residents of Columbus, and
WHEREAS, six firms submitted professional services proposals and Schorr Architects, Inc. achieved the highest score from a five-person Evaluation Committee, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Finance and Management Department, Facilities Management Division, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Finance and Management Director to contract with Schorr Architects, Inc. for professional services associated with the design and construction administration of the Fire Training Center to be located at the Fire Training Complex at 3675 Parsons Avenue, now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Finance and Management Director is hereby authorized to contract with Schorr Architects, Inc. for professional services associated with the design and construction administration of the Fire Training Center to be located at the Fire Training Complex at 3675 Parsons Avenue.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $832,000.00, or so much thereof that may be necessary in regard to the action authorized in SECTION 1, be and is hereby authorized and approved as follows:
Division: 30-04
Fund: 701
Project: 340118
OCA Code: 644518
Object Level 1: 06
Object Level 3: 6681
Amount: $832,000.00
SECTION 3. That for 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 or vetoes the same.