Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a modification of the professional services with for General Engineering Services with R.W. Armstrong & Associates, Inc. for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage (Sanitary and Storm Water). This modification is for storm and sanitary sewer design services, surveying, easement preparation and any other general design services as needed by the SSES, SMOC and TE Sections of the DOSD in the years 2011-2013.
This Ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $200,000.00 from Sanitary Sewers and $100,000.00 from Storm Water for a total expenditure of $300,000.00 from the capital improvements funds from Division of Sewerage and Drainage.
1.2. Amount of additional funds to be expended: $300,000.00
Original Contract Amount: $ 300,000.00
Modification 1: $ 300,000.00
Total (Orig. + Mods. 1) $ 600,000.00
1.3. Reasons additional goods/services could not be foreseen:
The original contract executed through Ordinance No. 0597-2011, allows for multi-year agreement and this modification was anticipated.
1.4. Reason other procurement processes are not used:
This contract modification is an annual extension of emergency (on-call) engineering services, which are bid out under the typical RFP/SOQ process on a three-year cycle.
1.5. How cost of modification was determined:
The cost of this modification was determined by the anticipated annual needs of DOSD for emergency (on-call) engineering services.
2. Procurement Information: The Division advertised for Requests for Proposals on the City of Columbus's vendor Services' website and in the City Bulletin in accordance with the provisions of Section 329.14 of the Columbus City Code. The evaluation criteria for this contract included: 1. proposal quality, 2. project schedule, 3. environmentally preferable offeror, and 4. local workforce. The bid date for the Requests for Proposals (RFP's) was ...
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