Explanation
1. BACKGROUND:
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to enter into a professional engineering services contract with Burgess & Niple.
The intent of this contract is to provide the Department of Public Service with continuing, contractual access to additional resources that are necessary to perform various professional engineering services, as well as provide technical expertise to produce studies to aid in determining solutions for safety issues throughout the City. The selected consultant shall be readily available to perform such tasks when requested by the City. Services on request and detailed scopes of individual projects will be developed as requested and work will be authorized as individual scopes are developed. The consultant shall be expected to work on multiple projects concurrently.
The Department of Public Service, Office of Support Services, solicited Requests for Proposals for the Intersection Improvements - Safety Studies General Engineering contract. The project was formally advertised on the Vendor Services web site from October 1, 2015 to October 22, 2015. The city received eight responses. Seven proposals were deemed responsive and were fully evaluated when the Evaluation Committee met on October 29, 2015. The responding firms were:
Company Name City/State Majority/MBE/FBE/ASN/PHC
Burgess & Niple Columbus, OH MAJ
TranSystems Columbus, OH PHC
GPD Group Columbus, OH MAJ
ms consultants, inc. Columbus, OH MAJ
Gannett Fleming Westerville, OH MAJ
McCormick Taylor Columbus, OH MAJ
Trans Associates Columbus, OH MAJ
Burgess & Niple received the highest score by the evaluation committee and will be awarded the contract in an amount up to $300,000.00. A modification to the contract to provide an additional $300,000.00 is planned for 2016.
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