Explanation
The Public Service Department, Transportation Division, is engaged in the Group 11 Intersection Improvement project. This project will provide turn lanes to relieve traffic congestion at Roberts Road and Dublin Road; Livingston Avenue and Barnett Road; Roberts Road and Wilson Road; Sullivant Avenue and Central Avenue and Wilson Road and the westbound exit ramp at I-70. A $356,651.00 design contract with Korda-Nemeth Engineering, Incorporated, was authorized by Ordinance 2290-1999 passed October 4, 1999.
This legislation authorizes a modification to the existing design contract. The modification is necessary to compensate the designer for additional work arising from revisions in curb ramp policy, traffic signal interconnect standards and the 2002 Construction and Material Specifications that departed from previously established standards.
This modification is an addition to the original scope of services but is a continuation of the existing work being performed and it would not be practical to contract with a different consultant.
Korda-Nemeth Engineering, Incorporated, contract compliance number 31-0922991 (expires October 21, 2006) was selected in 1999 in accordance with City Code Chapter 329 for awarding professional service contracts. We have negotiated new hourly rates for this modification because the current contract is six (6) years old. Costs have increased by approximately three percent (3%) per year for the past eight years. The overhead rate and percentage of profit from the original contract were used because they are still valid.
The original contract amount was $356,651.00. The cost of this modification is $43,111.00. The total of all modifications is $49,311.00. The total contract amount including all modifications is $405,962.00.
Fiscal Impact: The Transportation Division budgeted $35,000.00 in the 2005 Capital Improvements Budget in the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund in the Miscellaneous Intersection Improvements for the modification of the design for the Group 11 Intersection project. Additional funding of $8,111.00 will come from Roadway Improvements projects. Actual funds will be available from the Fall 2005 bond sale. This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $43,111.00.
Emergency action is requested to complete the design work as soon as possible to maintain the project's construction schedule.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to modify and increase the existing contract with Korda-Nemeth Engineering, Incorporated, for design of the Group 11 Intersection Improvement project; to authorize the expenditure of $43,111.00 or so much thereof as may be needed from the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($43,111.00)
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WHEREAS, Contract No. EA 012998-002 was authorized by Ordinance 2290-1999 passed October 4, 1999, executed and approved by the City Attorney on November 19, 1999; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to modify this contract to increase the scope of services as per the consultant's letter dated July 6, 2005, for the Group 11 Intersection Improvements project; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, in that the contract should be modified and increased immediately to complete the design work as soon as possible to maintain the project's construction schedule, 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 modify and increase Contract No. EA 12998-002 with Korda-Nemeth Engineering, Incorporated, to complete the design and construction plans and obtain the necessary permits for the Group 11 Intersection Improvements project in accordance with the plans on file in the office of the Public Service Director.
SECTION 2. That for the purpose of paying the cost of said contract modification the sum of $43,111.00 or so much thereof as may be needed be and hereby is authorized to be expended from Fund 704, the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund, Department No. 59-09, Transportation Division, Object Level One Code 06, Object Level Three Code 6682, OCA Code 644385 and Project 530086 ($35,000.00) and Project 530161 ($8,111.00).
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.