Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This Ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to modify and increase the General Engineering Services agreement with URS Corporation - Ohio for the Division of Power and Water, Contract No. 1104. This agreement established a "blanket" type of service contract to augment existing engineering personnel within the Water Distribution Group on an as-authorized, as needed basis. Work items consist of field investigations, surveying, and other professional design services as necessary for the completion of a design report, plans and specifications, GIS and other engineering services during construction as it relates to various water distribution and facility projects.
Ordinance No. 1440-2008 authorized the City the right to renew the contract for an additional year. Although the original agreement was established in 2008, the funding originally established has been utilized very fiscally and the Division of Power and Water now has a need to invoke the specification language to extend the contract for one (1) additional year. The Division of Power and Water wishes to increase Contract No. EL008829 in the amount of $200,000.00 for continued General Engineering Services.
1.1 Amount of additional funds to be expended: $200,000.00
Original Contract Amount: $200,000.00
Modification 1 (current) $200,000.00
Total (Orig. + Mod #1) $400,000.00
1.2. Reasons additional goods/services could not be foreseen:
This was a planned modification as indicated in the original authorizing legislation, #1440-2008.
1.3. Reason other procurement processes are not used:
A modification to this contract was anticipated as part of the original legislation.
1.4. How cost of modification was determined:
The original contract was set up for $200,000.00 of General Engineering Services to be used on an "as-needed" basis. The original contract was anticipated to be modified one time for an additional $200,000.00 of said same ser...
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