Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to modify and increase (Mod #2) an existing professional engineering agreement with Brown and Caldwell for the Southerly Waste Water Treatment Plant (SWWTP) Chemically Enhanced Primary Treatment (CEPT) - Preliminary Treatment Project. This project is one of three to provide the Chemically Enhanced Primary Treatment (CEPT) as approved by the Ohio EPA. The Southerly Waste Water Treatment Plant CEPT project will provide additional plant capacity to treat wet weather flows in excess of 330 MGD at the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant as approved by the Ohio EPA. This project will complete the full plant expansion and will focus on upgrades and modifications to the headworks facility, solids handling facilities, and plant control system.
This is a contract for professional engineering design services and services during construction (Design Professional, or “DP” services). This phase of this contract will consist of Engineering Services during Construction SWWTP CEPT - Preliminary Treatment.
2. PROJECT MODIFICATION:
2.1 Amount of additional funds to be expended: $3,668,016.00
This contract modification is proposed to be entered into for an amount of $3,668,016.00 that is estimated to be sufficient to complete the work included in the scope of services. Following is an estimate of costs for the contract:
Original Contract $ 1,583,073.00
Modification No. 1 $ 3,648,350.00
Modification No. 2 (current) $ 3,668,016.00
TOTAL $ 8,899,439.00
2.2 Reasons additional goods/services could not be foreseen:
The Contract modification was and anticipated.
2.3 Reason other procurement processes are not used:
Given the highly tech...
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