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BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Finance and Management Director to enter into a contract on behalf of the Office of Construction Management with Crawford and Associates Services, LLC for professional services for the replacement of the air conditioning cooling tower located at 757 Carolyn Avenue. The current cooling tower is leaking. It cannot be repaired and will likely completely fail.
The requested services are for engineering of the replacement of the cooling tower for the air conditioning system, bidding phase, and construction oversight.
The Office of Construction Management solicited Request for Proposals, due on July 9, 2009. The City received three responses from the following firms (1 ^ASN, 1* MBE): *Crawford and Associates Services, LLC, Karpinski Engineering, and ^Metro CD. Engineering. Karpinski Engineering and Metro CD Engineering failed to include a fee proposal in their request for proposal.
Fiscal Impact: Funding for this project is available in the Gov'l B.A.B's (Build America Bonds). The cost of this contract is $27,000.00.
Crawford and Associates Services, LLC. Contract Compliance No. 20-8992182, expiration date August 21, 2011.
Emergency action is requested to allow this project to proceed in a timely manner so that the risk of the current cooling tower completely failing is minimized. Design of the replacement will commence immediately so the construction can be bid later this summer and the replacement can take place this fall/winter.
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To authorize the Finance and Management Director to enter into a contract on behalf of the Office of Construction Management with Crawford and Associates Services, LLC for professional services for the replacement of the air conditioning, cooling tower located at 757 Carolyn Avenue; to authorize the expenditure of $27,000.00 from the Gov'l B.A.B.'s (Build America Bonds);and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, it is necessary to ...
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