Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to modify contracts with Kokosing Construction Company, Inc. and DLZ Ohio, Inc. in connection with the Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant Sludge Handling and Dewatering Improvements Project. This legislation will additionally amend the 2004 Capital Improvements Budget for purposes of increasing the budget authority for the loan proceeds associated with the supplemental loan pending with the Ohio Water Pollution Control Loan Fund.
This project provided the installation of new sludge dewatering centrifuges and centrifuge process support systems at the Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant. The work to install the new centrifuge system included the removal of existing facilities, improvements to the existing building, improvements to the sludge holding tanks and surrounding site, and installation of an odor control system. When completed, this project will provide a new high solids centrifuge system to replace the aged, existing equipment which is at the end of its useful life. In order to provide a complete, operational system, it has become necessary to adjust the work scope to address these changes in order to effectively complete the project.
2. CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT MODIFICATION:
The Kokosing Construction Company modification amount requested under this ordinance is $500,000.00. The contract total including this modification is $14,910,000.00. These additional funds are necessary to provide for the additional expenses that have been incurred due to the need for additional training, additional instrumentation & control programming, monitoring, communication modification, additional electrical modification, and additional building modification. Due to the complex and comprehensive nature of this project, this additional work could not be foreseen, and it is not practical or feasible to undertake a new procurement to deliver these services. The contract work ...
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