Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify a professional services contract with Burgess & Niple, Inc. to add additional funds for design of the Vision Zero - Neighborhood Slow Zones Near East project relative to the Safe Streets for All (SS4A) program.
Ordinance No. 3564-2024 authorized the Director of Public Service to enter into a professional services contract with Burgess & Niple, Inc. for the Vision Zero - Neighborhood Slow Zones Near East project. The intent of this project is to provide the City of Columbus, Department of Public Service, additional resources that are necessary to perform various professional engineering, survey, and technical expertise for the department to implement the Vision Zero - Neighborhood Slow Zones Near East Pilot, which includes general engineering and transportation planning services that will develop a Neighborhood Slow Zone plan for the specified project area to demonstrate the use of temporary materials and guide future efforts by the City of Columbus to implement neighborhood Slow Zones.
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify the contract in the amount of $81,350.55 for additional professional services for locations that were added to the project scope. Further, more detailed design is being requested by Public Service than what was originally scoped.
Ordinance 1918-2023 authorized the Director of Public Service, on behalf of the City of Columbus, to submit applications to and execute grant agreements with the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) relative to the SS4A program, accept and expend awarded grant funds, and issue refunds, if necessary, for the Vision Zero - Neighborhood Slow Zones Near East Project.
1.1 Amount of additional funds to be expended: $81,350.55
The original contract amount: $250,000.00 (PO502136, Ord. 3564-2024)
The total of Modification No. 1 $81,3...
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