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File #: 2485-2025    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/10/2025 In control: Public Utilities & Sustainability Committee
On agenda: 11/3/2025 Final action: 11/5/2025
Title: To authorize the Director of the Department of Public Utilities to enter into a contract modification with Prime Construction Management & Survey, Inc. for the Construction Administration/Construction Inspection Services 2023-2025 contract; to amend the 2025 Capital Improvement Budget; to authorize the appropriation and transfer of funds from the Water Reserve Fund to the WSRLA Loan Fund and to the Water Fresh Water Market Rate Fund; to appropriate funds in the WSRLA Loan Fund and in the Water Fresh Water Market Rate Fund; to authorize the application and acceptance of loan funding from the Ohio Water Development Authority Direct Loan Program; to authorize the expenditure of funds from the WSRLA Loan Fund and in the Water Fresh Water Market Rate Fund to pay for this contract modification; and to declare an emergency. ($1,560,653.95)
Attachments: 1. ORD 2485-2025 C-2451 Schedule 2A-1 - Utilization Form, 2. ORD 2485-2025 C-2486 Schedule 2A-1 - Utilization Form, 3. ORD 2485-2025 Sec of State, 4. ORD 2485-2025 Accounting Template
Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a contract modification with Prime Construction Management & Survey, Inc., for construction administration/inspection services for Department of Public Utilities construction projects bid during the calendar years 2023 through 2025 as part of the Construction Administration/Construction Inspection Services 2023-2025 contracts.

Prime Construction Management & Survey, Inc. will be assigned construction projects as tasks on their contract and will ensure the work is performed to City of Columbus construction standards and specifications. As projects are added to the contract, the contract will be modified to authorize Prime Construction Management & Survey, Inc. to perform the work and to add funding to pay for the work.

The construction projects to be administered by Prime Construction Management & Survey, Inc. under this contract modification are the Lead Service Line Replacements - Pilot Program, CIP #690236-100178, in an amount not to exceed $298,967.91, and the Lead Service Line Replacements - Part 2, CIP #690236-110001, in an amount not to exceed $1,261,686.04. The Lead Service Line Replacements - Pilot Program project was previously bid, has been modified to add additional work, and needs to have additional construction administration/inspection services funding added for the additional work. The Lead Service Line Replacements - Part 2 project is currently going through the bid award process.

This work will primarily be performed in Community Planning Area “99- Citywide.”

1.1. Amount of additional funds to be expended: $1,560,653.95

Original Contract $ 201,851.31 (ORD 1727-2023; PO411801)
Modification #1: $ 72,154.14 (ORD 1803-2023; PO419003)
Modification#2: $1,204,608.25 (ORD3237-2023; PO428570, PO42857,
PO428580, PO428584, PO428589)
Modification #3: $ 350,000.12 (ORD 1618-2024; PO461720)
Modification #4 $ 70,310.34 (OR...

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