Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into an agreement with PRIME AE Group, Inc., for professional engineering services for the Deland Avenue Area Water Line Improvements Project, in an amount up to $242,467.72, Division of Water Contract No. 1188.
The purpose of this project is to construct necessary improvements to the water distribution system in the Deland Avenue Area. The improvements identified in the scope of work will replace or rehabilitate mains that have high break histories and require frequent maintenance. This project includes replacing or rehabilitating approximately 9,990 linear feet of 8-inch and 2,115 linear feet of 12-inch water mains within the project area. The project area includes Deland Avenue, Scenic Drive, W. Cooke Road, Overlook Avenue, Olentangy Boulevard, Crosswell Road, and Ceramic Drive.
2. ECONOMIC IMPACT/ADVANTAGES; COMMUNITY OUTREACH; PROJECT DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS/ADVANTAGES OF PROJECT: The goal of this project is to replace or rehabilitate water lines that have a high break frequency and, in some cases, increase the size of currently under-sized water lines. Replacement of these water lines will decrease burden on water maintenance operations. The new lines constructed under this project should eliminate the pattern of frequent water line breaks.
3. BID INFORMATION: The selection of the firm providing the professional engineering services has been performed in accordance with the procedures set forth in Columbus City Code, Section 329.14, "Awarding professional service contracts through requests for proposals." The evaluation criteria for this contract included: 1. proposal quality, 2. project schedule, 3. environmentally preferable offeror, and 4. local workforce.
Requests for Proposals (RFP’s) were received on July 19, 2013, 2013 from PRIME AE Group and Pomeroy & Associates, Ltd.
An evaluation committee reviewed the proposals and scored t...
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