Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
The City of Columbus, Department of Public Service currently holds a contract with Infrastructure Management Services (IMS). This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify and increase this contract with IMS in the amount of $256,678.00.
Work performed to date on this contract includes survey of the condition of arterial streets in the entire City network using a Road Surface Tester (RST) and collection of right-of-way asset information. Work to be performed as part of future tasks includes, but not limited to, testing of the City’s entire residential street network. Network level testing using block-to-block referencing will be performed on approximately 1583 test miles of pavement using stationing from the previous survey. The field investigation will include a Laser RST surface condition survey, GPS referencing, 3 camera digital video, and an environmental survey. IMS will install the current version of the PavePRO Manager pavement management software with the updated field data and digital images at 25’ intervals. The pavement management software will be linked to the City’s GIS and department staff will be provided update training in software operation and data interpretation.
Contract amount was arrived at through negotiations with the vendor. Services are provided on a unit-price basis and the City will be charged only for the actual number of miles tested and included in the database.
Original contract amount: $500,000.00 (Ordinance 1165-2007, EL007889)
Modification number 1 amount: $75,000.00 (Ordinance 0970-2010, EL010731)
Modification number 2: $256,678.00
Total contact amount, including this modification: $831,678.00
Ordinance 1165-2007 authorized the contract for IMS as a sole source vendor in that the asset management database utilized is proprietary. The information contained within the database can only be duplicated by IMS, and the equipment they own and operate to collect the data ...
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