Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This Ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to modify and increase the professional engineering services agreement with CH2M Hill Engineers, Inc. for the Dublin Road Water Plant Treatment Capacity Increase Project - Detailed Design Phase, for the Division of Water Contract No. 1009.
The original agreement as well as Modification No. 1 provided for preliminary and detailed design of the project.
This Modification (No. 2) was planned and will provide for final design of treatment improvements and for initial services during construction. Work under this phase includes performing periodic site visits to determine if work is proceeding in accordance with the contract documents, submittal review, clarification of Contractor’s request for information and preparation of record drawings. This work will be performed under this contract modification. This contract with be modified two additional times for engineering services during construction for upcoming phases of the work.
1.1 Amount of additional funds to be expended: $8,000,000.00
Original Contract Amount: $10,432,936.00
Modification No. 1 $13,300,000.00
Modification No. 2 (current) $ 8,000,000.00
Total (Orig. + Mods 1 - 2) $31,732,936.00
1.2. Reasons additional goods/services could not be foreseen:
This was a planned contract modification identified in the original contracting legislation Ordinance No. 0938-2010 and the first contract modification Ordinance No. 1925-2011.
1.3. Reason other procurement processes are not used:
This was a planned contract modification identified in the original contracting legislation as well as the first contract modification. The current consultant is familiar with the project and has completed all the work to date on the current design path. Bidding the work to another consultant will further delay the project and will result in higher costs due to bringing the new consultant up to speed on the project and put the C...
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