City of Columbus - File #: 1315-2016

• File #: 1315-2016
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/8/2016
• In control: Public Utilities Committee
• On agenda: 6/20/2016
• Final action: 6/22/2016
• Title: To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to enter into an engineering agreement with DLZ Ohio, Inc. for the Lower Olentangy Tunnel Phase 1 &2; to authorize the appropriation and transfer of $5,488,356.22 from the Sanitary Sewer Reserve Fund to the Sanitary Sewer General Obligation (G.O.) Bond Fund; to authorize the expenditure of up to $5,488,356.22 from the G.O. Bond Fund; and to amend the 2016 Capital Improvements Budget for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage. ($5,488,356.22)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/22/2016	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
6/21/2016	1	ACTING MAYOR	Signed
6/20/2016	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
6/20/2016	1	Columbus City Council	Approved	Pass
6/6/2016	1	Columbus City Council	Read for the First Time

Explanation

1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into an engineering agreement with DLZ Ohio, Inc. for the Lower Olentangy Tunnel Phase 1 &2, CIP 650724-100000. In this project the consultant will develop the design and provide engineering services during construction for the City’s Lower Olentangy Tunnel project. Services will include field activities to obtain design data; development of a design report, detailed design plans, specifications, easements, permits, bid documents, outreach & coordination activities and provide engineering services during construction.

The proposed Lower Olentangy Tunnel will work in tandem with the four pillars of Blueprint Columbus program to enable the City to address several elements of its sewer consent orders that the four pillars alone cannot and improve water quality in the Olentangy River. The project will provide hydraulic relief to both the Franklin Main Interceptor Sewer and the Olentangy Scioto Interceptor Sewer near Second Avenue and near Dodridge Street; it will control the seven upper Olentangy combined sewer overflows per the consent order; mitigate the activation of four designed sewer relief structures per the consent order and allow closure of a fifth designed sewer overflow structure.

2. PROJECT TIMELINE: Design activities will begin in June 2016 with a preliminary design report to be submitted in June 2017, design plans will be complete at the end of 2018, bid documents complete at the end of 2019 and engineering services during construction from 2020 to 2025.

3. PROCUREMENT INFORMATION: The Division advertised for a Request for Proposals (RFP’s) the subject services on the City’s Vendor Services website and in the City Bulletin in accordance with the overall provisions of Section 329 of the Columbus City Code. The Division of Sewerage and Drainage received three (3) received on December 4, 2015 from the following companies:

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