Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify a professional services contract with Burgess & Niple to add additional funds for design of the Arterial Street Rehabilitaton - E. Broad St. - Outerbelt St. to Reynoldsburg-New Albany Rd. project.
Ordinance 1185-2020 authorized the Director of Public Service to enter into a professional services contract with Burgess & Niple for the Arterial Street Rehabilitaton - E. Broad St. - Outerbelt St. to Reynoldsburg-New Albany Rd project. The intent of this project is to design improvements to the East Broad Street corridor from Outerbelt Street to Reynoldsburg-New Albany Road. This is the second phase of a major widening project to construct new through and turn lanes of various configurations in the E. Broad Street corridor from the east side of the I-270 interchange to the intersection of E. Broad Street and Reynoldsburg-New Albany Road. This project will widen and resurface the existing pavement from the eastern terminus of Phase 1 (near Outerbelt Street) to Reynoldsburg-New Albany Road. Work will include widening of the bridge over Utzinger Ditch; traffic signal improvements; addition of a shared use path, sidewalk, street lighting, street trees, and signal interconnect conduit; and incidental improvements such as drainage, traffic control, sediment and erosion control, water adjustments, and maintenance of traffic. This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify the contract in the amount of $1,900,000.00.
This is a planned modification that is necessary to complete the design work for the project. The original contract amount was only intended to get through the study phase of the project, with a modification needed for detail design once the study was accepted. It was deemed to be more cost efficient to modify the existing contract than to bid this part of the work.
The original contract amount: ...
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