Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify and increase the professional engineering services contract for the General Engineering Bridges 2008 project with Glaus, Pyle, Schomer, Burns and Dehaven (GPD), in the amount of $200,000.00.
Work to date includes:
Bridge Inspections, bridge load ratings, bridge rehab workplans, and engineering reports. The majority of work in the next phase includes preparation of design plans; however, bridge inspections, engineering analysis and reports may be included in the future for currently unidentified bridges. This work is a logical extension of existing contract in that this modification will include preparation of engineering plans and specifications to correct bridge deficiencies identified in the workplans.
This modification is needed to assure timely completion of the project design and the Division of Planning and Operations does not maintain adequate staff or all of the various disciplines necessary to complete such design in house.
It was anticipated that plans would be needed to implement corrective measures to address bridge deficiencies; however, the magnitude of the work was not known going into the contract. It was identified that it was desirable to have the consultant perform inspections to identify deficiencies with the most problematic bridges and prepare workplans to define the scope and nature of work to be performed. That effort expended much of the available contract.
Since the consultant has performed detailed inspections and workplans they are very familiar with the bridges for which plans are desired. In order to have the plans and specifications developed to advertise the construction project this year, there is not sufficient time to request proposals for the project and execute an agreement. It is cost and time efficient to have the consultant continue with the plans for those bridges.
The original contract was $300,00...
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