Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to enter into a professional services contract with Stantec Consulting Services, Inc. for the Bikeway Development - Professional Services contract for $310,000.00.
The City of Columbus has developed a Bicentennial Bikeways Plan (BBP) which was adopted by City Council on June 2, 2008. The Plan identifies specific bikeways improvement projects located throughout the City. The Division of Mobility Options (Division) is responsible for the management and implementation of these improvement projects. It is the responsibility of the Offeror to produce a preliminary engineering report which analyzes the bikeway projects included in the BBP as well as additional projects identified by the Division.
The report shall include such items as, conceptual designs, preliminary alignments, traffic analyses, preliminary cost estimates, preliminary environmental analyses, as well as determinations of feasibility and constructability. The preliminary engineering report shall serve as the source document for future detailed design efforts. In order to successfully link a planning level project to a feasible and affordable design, the Offeror shall become familiar with the intent and methodology behind the BBP projects. ...
Click here for full text