Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify and increase the construction contract with Shelly and Sands, Inc. for the Resurfacing 2010 - Project 5 project in an amount up to $1,587,631.55 and to provide for additional construction inspection in the amount of $151,213.25.
Company Name City/State Majority/MBE/FBE
Shelly and Sands, Inc. Columbus, OH Majority
This contract modification will allow the Department of Public Service to increase this existing contract for purposes of adding the resurfacing of an additional eleven streets using available funds from the August bond sale. The contractor has agreed to extend the unit prices for these additional streets that were contained in the original, competitively bid contract. This modification with Shelly and Sands, Inc., along with a companion contract modification with Strawser Inc., will enable these contractors to make a comprehensive effort to resurface the greatest number of city streets during this fiscal year's construction season, within the budgeted $18.5 million dollar FY2010 Resurfacing Program. If the Department had undertaken another separate, competitive procurement effort for these additional resurfacing services, it would have certainly delayed the commencement and completion of the work until the 2011 construction season and would have included an estimated, additional 8-10 % increase in the cost to do so.
Work performed under the original contract consisted of resurfacing 36 City streets. Some of the streets included were McNaughten Road, Sullivant Avenue, Dundee Avenue, Eakin Road and numerous streets in the Downtown area.
11 streets will be added or reconstructed in this project, they are:
Edmonton Road from Northtowne Boulevard to Cleveland Avenue
Halkirk Street North from Edinburgh Lane to the west terminus
Halkirk Street South from Edinburgh Lane to the west terminus
Morse Crossing from Eas...
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