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File #: 2281-2025    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Consent
File created: 8/19/2025 In control: Public Utilities & Sustainability Committee
On agenda: 9/29/2025 Final action:
Title: To authorize the Director of the Department of Public Utilities to enter into a contract modification with DLZ Ohio, Inc. for the Construction Administration/Construction Inspection Services 2023-2025 contract; to amend the 2025 Capital Improvement Budget; to authorize a transfer of cash and appropriation between projects within the Electricity Bond Fund; and to authorize the expenditure of $159,356.54 from the Electricity Bond Fund for this contract modification. ($159,356.54)
Attachments: 1. ORD 2281-2025 SOS.pdf, 2. ORD 2281-2025 Utilization.pdf, 3. ORD 2281-2025 Accounting Template.pdf
Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a contract modification with DLZ Ohio, Inc., for construction administration/inspection services as part of the Construction Administration/Construction Inspection Services 2023-2025 contract.

DLZ Ohio, Inc. was awarded a contract to perform construction administration/inspection services for Department of Public Utilities Capital Improvement Projects that bid during the years 2023, 2024, and 2025. The contract is modified as needed throughout the three-year contract period to include these projects as they go to construction. The construction project to be administered by DLZ Ohio, Inc. under this contract modification is the Circuit #23 Street Lighting Improvements, CIP No. 670892-100000, in the amount of $159,356.54.

This work will primarily be performed in Columbus Community Area: 54 – Franklinton.

1.1. Amount of additional funds to be expended: $125,572.91
Original Contract: $775,135.69 (ORD 1768-2023, PO402691, PO402695)
Modification #1: $1,191,867.05 (ORD 2111-2023, PO411979)
Modification #2: $1,822,179.64 (ORD 2942-2023, PO425120)
Modification #3: $129,591.25 (ORD 3300-2023, PO431695)
Modification #4: $643,598.83 (ORD 0523-2024, PO447156 and PO447158)
Modification #5: $133,297.64 (ORD 2556-2024, PO484303)
Modification #6: $73,325.27 (ORD 3004-2024, PO487373)
Modification #7: $99,644.31 (ORD 3552-2024, PO496559)
Modification #8: $125,572.91 (ORD 2185-2025)
Modification #9: $159,356.54 (Current)

Total $5,153,569.13

1.2. Reasons additional goods/services could not be foreseen:
This is a three-year agreement for fiscal years 2023 - 2025. Modifications were anticipated and explained in the origin...

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