Explanation
1. Background: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to modify the professional services agreement with H. R. Gray for the Wastewater Treatment Facilities Professional Construction Management project, for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage. The H. R. Gray modification amount requested under this ordinance is $982,873.00. The contract total including this modification is $2,793,509.00.
The proposed contract modification provides funding for construction administration and management services including, construction inspection, construction and startup coordination, reporting, budgeting, scheduling, document tracking, and related tasks associated for six construction contracts that will begin in 2011. The Division has determined that these services cannot be performed by City personnel at this time, and has planned for the procurement of these services on a routine basis. The professional services are funded by incremental appropriation, through the use of approximately annual modifications. Adjustments to fees and scope to this contract will be made by Contract Modification based on annual (or semiannual) proposals as requested by the City.
1.1. Amount of additional funds to be expended: $982,873.00
Original Contract $1,810,636.00
Proposed Modification No. 1 $ 982,873.00
Future Modifications (Amount to be Determined) $ 0.00
CURRENT PROPOSED TOTAL $2,793,509.00
1.2. Reasons additional goods/services could not be foreseen:
Contract Modification No. 1 was planned and anticipated, and so stated in the original contract's legislation. It is a planned continuation of the services originally included within the existing contract's scope of service.
1.3. Reason other procurement processes are not used:
The funding provided by this contract modification is for continuation of the existing work of the...
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