Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This Ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to modify and increase the professional engineering services contract with Hill International, Inc. (hereafter Hill International) for the Professional Construction Management Services (PCM) - 2020 contract, CIP # 690587-100001, in an amount up to $9,960,500.00.
This Professional Construction Management (PCM) contract assists the City with managing a capital improvement program consisting of multiple capital improvement projects to ensure completion in accordance with design requirements and City’s needs, while serving as a liaison between the construction contractor, design professional (DP), and City personnel. Work performed to date includes program support services, design phase construction management services (e.g., construction cost estimating, constructability reviews, and construction scheduling), and construction administration / construction inspection (CA/CI) services. Future phases of the contact will continue these same services.
The Community Planning Area is “99 - Citywide” because the water facilities associated with this contract serve multiple planning areas.
1.1 Contract Timeline and Future Modifications: The Notice to Proceed (NTP) for the originality contract occurred in December 2020. Construction projects were assigned to this contract based on their advertisement date using a three year assignment period that started in December 2020 and ran to December 2023. Hill International will continue to provide construction services for the construction projects assigned to the PCM-2020 contract during that assignment window until the completion of those construction projects or until the work on this projects are completed to the satisfaction of the City. It will be necessary to periodically modify the contract to add funds to pay for this continued work until the last construction project originally assigned to the PCM-2020 contract is completed....
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