Explanation
BACKGROUND: The City is engaged in the Roadway - Livingston Avenue-18th Street to Nelson Road Project (“Project”). City Ordinance Number 1742-2025, which passed on July 17, 2025, authorized the City Attorney to spend City funds to hire professional services and acquire real property interests needed for this Project. The Project’s design is complete, and the Project’s proposed construction schedule requires acquisition of the Project’s real property interests to be completed by October 1, 2027.
Because the City is receiving federal funding through the Federal Highway Administration (“Federal Highways”), the City must follow federally mandated quality-based selection (“QBS”) procedures for solicitation and selection of title work and appraisal professional services, which procedural requirements supersede local bidding requirements. The City Attorney complied with all appropriate QBS procedures, and, in accordance with the appropriate selection criteria, the City Attorney selected the following two (2) Ohio Department of Transportation, (“ODOT”) prequalified professional title companies: Alban and Alban LLP and MS Consultants, Inc.; three (3) ODOT prequalified professional appraisal firms to perform appraisal reports: Belcastro Valuation Services, Inc., Martin-Wood Appraisal Group, Ltd., and The Robert Weiler Company; and the following two (2) ODOT prequalified professional appraisal firms to perform appraisal reviews: Brain Barnes & Co., Inc. and Principle Real Estate Group.
The total cost of title work and appraisal services for the work and parcels assigned to each of the foregoing professional service firms may exceed fifty thousand and 00/100 U.S. dollars ($50,000.00) each. Therefore, it is necessary to waive the City Code, Sections 329.25 and 329.26, as applicable, for awarding the professional service contracts.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE ?: Not applicable
FISCAL IMPACT: City Ordinance Number 1742-2025 authorized the funds for the City At...
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