Explanation
1.  BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to enter into professional services contracts with TranSystems Corporation of Ohio in the amount of up to $1,400,000.00 for the Arterial Street Rehabilitation - E. Broad Street Widening project.
The intent of this contract is to provide the Department of Public Service with continuing, contractual access to additional resources that are necessary to provide various professional engineering, survey, and technical expertise for the department to implement projects resulting in improvements to the East Broad Street Corridor from I-270 to Outerbelt Street.
The Department of Public Service, Office of Support Services, solicited Requests for Proposals for the Arterial Street Rehabilitation - E. Broad Street Widening contract.  The project was formally advertised on the Vendor Services web site from March 29, 2017, to April 20, 2017.  The City received eleven (11) responses.  Ten proposals were deemed responsive and were fully evaluated when the Evaluation Committee met on May 5, 2017.  The responsive firms were:  
Company Name                                                      City/State            Majority/MBE/MBR/F1/AS1/PHC
TranSystems Corporation of Ohio		Columbus, OH 			MAJ
Burgess & Niple                               		Columbus, OH 			MAJ
Woolpert                                            		Columbus, OH 			MAJ
DLZ                                                        	Worthington, OH 		MBR
Carpenter Marty                              		Columbus, OH 			MAJ     
JMT                                                       	Columbus, OH 			MAJ
Crawford, Murphy & Tilly             		Columbus, OH 			MAJ
HDR                                                      	Columbus, OH 			MAJ 
AECOM                                               	Columbus, OH 			MAJ 
IBI Group                                             	Westerville, OH 		MAJ
TranSystems Corporation of Ohio received the highest s...
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