Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Recreation and Parks Director to establish a purchase order and expend funds for the Olentangy Water Trail Project within the City of Columbus. Work to include the installation of small personal watercraft put-ins at various locations along the Olentangy River. The purchase order will be established pursuant to the State Requirements contract with McDaniels Construction Corp. Ordinance 0582-87 authorizes City agencies to participate in the Ohio Department of Administrative Services (DAS) cooperative contracts when deemed to be “cost effective” to the City of Columbus. This will allow the Recreation and Parks to proceed with the Olentangy water trail project.
This ordinance will allow for a pilot program for the Olentangy Water Trail Project utilizing an established state term contract, based on the concept of Job Order Contracting (JOC). The JOC allows the City to get commonly encountered construction projects done using a different contracting method. By using JOC, the City hopes to reduce costs, time and errors for certain renovation, repair and construction projects. The State of Ohio bid JOC through the use of a unit price book, which provides for preset costs for specific construction tasks. Winning bidders were selected based on their mark-up or discount from these preset costs. The Department of Recreation and Parks wishes to use this contract to measure its effectiveness in comparison to the traditional construction procurement method.
Emergency action is requested to have the water trail in place for 2013 use.
Fiscal Impact: The cost of the contract is $64,625.39 which includes a $15,000 project contingency. Funding is currently available in the Special Income Tax Fund 430 and part of the Recreation and Parks 2013 CIB.
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To authorize the Recreation and Parks Director to issue a purchase order with McDaniels Construction Corp. Inc, for the Olentangy Water Trail Project, within...
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