Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into an agreement with ms consultants, inc., in the amount of $199,336.85, for professional engineering services for the German Village Area Water Line Improvements Project.
The purpose of this project is to construct necessary improvements to the water distribution system in the German Village Area. The improvements identified in the scope of work will replace undersized water mains that currently provide low pressures and insufficient fire flows. The improvements will also replace mains that have high break histories and require frequent maintenance. This project includes ten individual sites located at Pearl Street, Whittier Street, Ebner Street, Zimpfer Street, Beech Street, City Park Avenue, Washington Avenue, Kent Street, Gault Street, and Columbus Street for a total of approximately 7,700 feet of water line ranging in size from 6-inch to 8-inch diameter.
2. BID INFORMATION: The selection of the firm providing the professional engineering services has been performed in accordance with the procedures set forth in Columbus City Code, Section 329.14, "Awarding professional service contracts through requests for proposals." The evaluation criteria for this contract included: 1. proposal quality, 2. project schedule, 3. environmentally preferable offeror, and 4. local workforce.
Requests for Proposals (RFP's) were received on March 13, 2009 from C.F. Bird & R.J. Bull, Inc., ms consultants, inc., and Pomeroy & Associates, Ltd.
An evaluation committee reviewed the proposals and scored them based on the criteria mentioned above. Based on the evaluation of the proposals submitted, the Director of Public Utilities requests award of the project to MS.
The Contract Compliance Number for ms consultants, inc. is 34-6546916 (expires 7/10/10, Majority). Additional information regarding each bidder, description of work, contract time frame and deta...
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