Explanation
1. BACKGROUND:
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a professional engineering services contract with Camp, Dresser, and McKee, Inc, in connection with the Sewer System I/I Remediation-Livingston/James Project.
The Livingston/James area is generally bounded by the City of Bexley to the west, I-70 to the south, Country Club Road to the east, and E. Fifth Ave. to the north. This area is located on the east side of the City and has had a significant number of street, yard, and basement flooding during rain events for decades. In addition, the sanitary sewers are suspected to surcharge, causing backups in basements, and overflows to the environment.
This contract will provide the preliminary engineering services required to perform a comprehensive investigation and evaluation of the areas sanitary and stormwater collection systems. This will include field verification, cleaning and insitu-video inspection of all sanitary infrastructure, and incorporating this information into the division's computerized hydraulic model of the Livingston/James area. An evaluation of this information will identify cost effective immediate and long-term stormwater and sanitary system improvement recommendations, operation and maintenance practices, guidelines for implementing recommendations for private property improvements.
2. PROCUREMENT INFORMATION:
The basis for selection of the chosen professional engineering services firm: The Division advertised Request for Statement of Qualifications (RFSQ's) for five of the sanitary sewer Inflow/Infiltration remediation projects in the City Bulletin in accordance with the provisions of Section 329.13 of Columbus City Codes. Six of the ten submitting firms were short-listed and were requested to submit technical proposals for this project. These proposals were reviewed and ranked by a Professional Engineering Services Selection Committee in order to determine the consultant b...
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