Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Public Service Director to enter into a contract with G & G Cement Contractors for brick street repair. The Transportation Division is responsible for maintaining the City's roadway system through a viable renovation program. A brick rehabilitation project is needed to prevent premature deterioration of the City's brick roadways. The contract will consist of replacing brick pavement on thirteen City streets. The Transportation Division will perform inspection services at a cost not to exceed $24,500.00. This project was bid in compliance with the City Code and advertised in the City Bulletin. Formal competitive bids were received and tabulated on July 1, 2004 received by the Transportation Division as follows:
Vendor / Bid Amount / Status
G. & G. Cement Contractors / $122,178.00 / majority
Decker Construction Company / $127,976.52 / majority
G. Marchi and Son, LLC / $159,222.00 / majority
Columbus Asphalt Paving Company / $178,657.50 / majority
The Transportation Division recommends acceptance of the bid by G & G Cement Contractors as the (Contract Compliance Number 31-0924129; Expiration Date December 18, 2005) as the lowest, best, most responsive and most responsible bidder.
Fiscal Impact: The Transportation Division budgeted $150,000.00 in the 2004 Capital Improvements Budget within the Brick Rehabilitation. This ordinance authorizes and expenditure of $146,678.00.
Emergency action is requested to allow this project to proceed and be completed this construction season.
Title
To authorize the Public Service Director to enter into a contract with G & G Cement Contractors for the Brick Rehabilitation - 2004 project for the Transportation Division; to authorize the expenditure of $146,678.00 from the 1995, 1999 Voted Streets and Highways Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($146,678.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Transportation Division is responsible for maintaining the City's roadways; and
WHEREAS, brick rehabilitation is needed to prevent early deterioration of the City's brick roadways; and
WHEREAS, formal competitive bids were received and tabulated on July 1, 2004 by the Transportation Division for the Brick Rehabilitation - 2004 project and a satisfactory low bid was received; and
WHEREAS, the Transportation Division recommends acceptance of the bid submitted by G & G Cement Contractors as the lowest, best, most responsive and most responsible bid, and
WHEREAS, funds are budgeted and available for this expenditure; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, in that this contract should be immediately awarded so that the work may proceed without delay and be completed this construction season, 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 G & G Cement Contractors, 2849 Switzer Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43219 for the Brick Rehabilitation - 2004 project in accordance with the applicable specifications and plans on file in the office of the Transportation Administrator, which are hereby approved, and to provide for construction inspection services.
SECTION 2. That for the purpose of paying the cost of the contract, the sum of $146,678.00, 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 6621, OCA Code 644385 and Project 530105.
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.