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.
Modification No. 2 provided for final design of treatment improvements and for initial services during construction.
This Modification (No. 3) will provide for final detailed design services of treatment improvements and to continue services during construction. See the attached Information form for a detailed description of these services.
1.1 Amount of additional funds to be expended: $8,000,000.00
Original Contract Amount: $10,432,936.00 (EL010879)
Modification No. 1 $13,300,000.00 (EL012300)
Modification No. 2 $ 8,000,000.00 (EL014484)
Modification No. 3 (current) $ 8,000,000.00
Total (Orig. + Mods 1 - 3) $39,732,936.00
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, the first contract modification Ordinance No. 1925-2011, as well as the second contract modification Ordinance No. 1059-2013.
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 and second contract modifications. 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 City at high risk of not meeting anticipated future water quality regulation deadlines.
1.4. How cos...
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