Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into an agreement with Stantec Consulting Services, for professional engineering services for the NPDES Stormwater Permit Wet Weather Monitoring Project. The City's Stormwater NPDES permit requires the City to monitor discharges from its municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) during wet weather events. The permit specifically requires the City to monitor wet weather discharges from three city outfalls once each quarter. Monitoring services performed under this project will allow the City to meet its permit obligations.
2. ENGINEERING CONTRACT AWARD: Stantec Consulting Services was selected in accordance with the procedures set forth in Columbus City Code, Section 329.14, "Awarding professional service contracts through requests for proposals." A notice of requests for proposals appeared in the City Bulletin on April 21, 2012, April 28, 2012, May 5, 2012, May 12, 2012 and May 19, 2012. Proposals were submitted by the due date of May 25, 2012. Two consultants submitted Technical Proposals for this project: Stantec Consulting Services. and S&ME, Inc.
Upon review of the Technical Proposals, the offerors have been ranked using criteria specified in City Code, and other criteria, specifically: competence of the offeror to perform the service, past performance of the offeror, estimated hours and rates, the feasibility/quality of the proposed project approach, location of the office performing work, ability to perform expeditiously, and contracted backlog of work with the Department.
The city's latest Stormwater NPDES permit, issued by Ohio EPA, became effective on May 1, 2012. The permit requires that stormwater outfall monitoring tasks associated with this project be initiated six (6) months from the effective date of the permit and continue throughout the permit monitoring and reporting period (2013-2018). The Division proposes to enter into co...
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