Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify a professional services contract with TranSystems Corporation of Ohio, now GFT Infrastructure Inc, to add additional funds for Intersection - Safety Study General Engineering 2020 project.
Ordinance No. 2443-2020 authorized the Director of Public Service to enter into a $500,000.00 professional services contract with TranSystems Corporation of Ohio for the Intersection - Safety Study General Engineering 2020 project. The intent of this contract is to provide the City of Columbus with continuing, contractual access to additional resources that are necessary to perform various professional traffic engineering services as well as provide technical expertise to produce studies for the Department of Public Service to aid the City in determining solutions for safety issues throughout the City. This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify the contract in the amount of $100,000.00.
Ordinance No. 0762-2026 authorized the Director of the Department of Public Service to modify all contracts between the Department of Public Service and TranSystems Corporation to allow for the assignment of all such contracts from TranSystems Corporation to GFT Infrastructure Inc.
This modification of the original contract is to provide design services for additional tasks including Hudson Bike Connection work, Interchange Operations Analysis at West North Broadway, and additional work to be studied on the existing General Engineering contract.
1.1 Amount of additional funds to be expended: $100,000.00
The original contract amount: $500,000.00 (PO250005, Ord. 2443-2020)
The total of Modification No. 1: $100,000.00 (This Ordinance)
The contract amount including all modifications: $600,000.00
1.2 Reasons additional goods/services could not be foreseen:
This work could not be anticipated because specific ta...
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