Explanation
1. BACKGROUND:
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into an Engineering Agreement with Stantec Consulting Services for the Blenheim / Glencoe Integrated Solution Project; CIP# 650870-100001. It is the objective of the City to mitigate overflows to the 10-year level of service. The City will evaluate and determine if this LOS (level of service) is best achieved with strictly Inflow and Infiltration (I&I) elimination with green infrastructure (GI) or in combination with some gray infrastructure.
To accomplish this objective, the scope of work for this project will include all the requisite investigation, evaluation, formulation, and design to produce fully independent construction documents for the remediation of inflow and infiltration (I/I), green infrastructure (GI) technologies and other related activities and/or documents necessary for project completion.
2. PROJECT TIMELINE:
It is anticipated that a Notice to Proceed will be issued May 6, 2013, Detailed Design will be completed August 2014, and land acquisition will be completed December 2014. Construction will commerce March 2015 and be completed by March 2016.
3. PROCUREMENT INFORMATION:
The Division advertised for competitive bid proposals on the City of Columbus' Vendors Services and the City Bulletin in accordance with the provisions of Section 329.14 of Columbus City Codes. The Division of Sewerage and Drainage opened the responding bids on January 11, 2013 from the following thirteen (13) companies. The ranking was as follows:
Name C.C. No. Exp. Date City/State Status
Strand and Associates 39-1020418 10/31/13 Madison, WI MAJ
URS 34-0939859 07/28/13 Atlanta, GA MAJ
EMH&T 31-0685594 09/22/13 New Albany, OH MAJ
Brown and Caldwell 94-1446346 05/02/14 Columbus, OH MAJ
Stantec Consult. Srv 11-2167170 12/21/13 Chicago, IL ...
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