Explanation
1. BACKGROUND:
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to execute a planned contract modification to the Sewer System Engineering Section's Construction Administration and Construction Inspection Services Agreement with DLZ Ohio, Inc. The funds approved within this legislation will provide for payment of additional services that were needed to conclude ongoing construction projects.
This modification (Mod #2) will increase the funding of the contract by an additional $405,000.00 for construction administration - construction inspection services that need additional funding. This project typically involves the replacement and or rehabilitation of sanitary and combined sewer infrastructure. The projects involved in this specific modification are two sanitary projects: (1) General Construction Contract and (2) 2009 Annual Lining Contract; and one stormwater project: Floodwall Concrete Repair.
The original contract for DLZ Ohio, Inc was for construction administration and construction inspection.
1.1. Amount of additional funds to be expended: $405,000.00
Original Contract Amount: $ 925,000.00
Modification 1 $ 257,019.84
Modification 2 (current) $ 405,000.00
Total (Orig. + Mod 1, 2) $1,587,019.84
1.2. Reasons additional goods/services could not be foreseen:
The modification was anticipated and explained in the original legislation. This is a continuation of the anticipated process.
1.3. Reason other procurement processes are not used:
The original contract selected three firms to provide construction administration services for projects in 2008, 2009, and 2010.
1.4. How cost of modification was determined:
A cost proposal was provided by DLZ Ohio, Inc. and reviewed by the Division of Power and Water and the Division of Sewerage and Drainage and was deemed acceptable.
2. MULTI-YEAR CONTRACT:
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