Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a construction contract with Quality Lines, Inc. for the Alternate 69kV Line to West Substation Project; in an amount up to $5,042,894.18; for the Division of Power.
This project consists of installing a 69kV circuit breaker and reworking the 69kV Dublin Avenue Substation buss, installing approximately 3.25 miles of 69kV line with a 15kV spacer cable under build, relay testing, calibrations of relays at the West Substation, re-lamping street lighting along route with LED lighting, and other such work as may be necessary to complete the contract, in accordance with the drawings, technical specifications, and City of Columbus Construction and Material Specifications.
Community Planning Areas: “Downtown,” “Franklinton,” and “Hilltop”.
2. ECONOMIC IMPACT/ADVANTAGES; COMMUNITY OUTREACH; PROJECT DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS/ADVANTAGES OF PROJECT: Constructing this proposed 69kV line will increase reliability for the West Substation, Jackson Pike Substation, Furnace Street Substation, and all facilities and customers which receive power through. Without this proposed 69kV line, the West Substation will only have one source of power and in case of fault or failure from this one power source there would be power loss and therefore revenue loss from key customers.
3. CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT AWARD: The Director of Public Utilities publicly opened two bids on November 1, 2017 from:
4. BID WAIVER INFORMATION: The Department of Public Utilities reviewed the bid submitted by Quality Lines Inc. and noticed an obvious error in the pricing for Alternate 3. Quality Lines was contacted to clarify the pricing of Alternate 3. The bidder stated that price quotes were coming in last minute not leaving much time to input and review the bid prior to submittal. A corrected bid tab was provided to the Department by the Design Professional.
The Design Professional conta...
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