Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into an engineering agreement with Black and Veatch, in the amount of $707,668.00 for professional engineering services for the Blueprint Columbus, Affordability Analysis Project for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage. Blueprint Columbus seeks to replace this strictly grey infrastructure reliance in the Wet Weather Management Program (WWMP) with greener infrastructure. Thus, a major portion of this project is a comparison between these two technological bases. The scope of work for this project evaluates existing/past affordability analyses and associated rate models, from a number of larger U.S. cities, including Columbus and building a rate model for current conditions. This model will then be used to evaluate the WWMP and Blueprint Columbus programs. The Team will aid in the derivation of the various programs; which is to be devised by other entities outside of this project. This is intended to be a multi-year contract with two or three annual modifications.
2. PROJECT TIMELINES: The Project task end dates are as follows: (Note: all City reviews and approvals are included)
a. Proposals out 8-26-13 (Actual)
b. Proposals received 9-30-13 (Actual)
c. Contract Initiation (NTP) 8-26-11
d. Modification 1 (Existing Evaluation & Model Development) 2-1-14
e. Modification 2 (Model Refinement & Application) 2-1-15
f. End (Final Reporting and Clean-up) 2-1-16
3. PROCUREMENT INFORMATION: The Division advertised Request for Proposals (RFP's) for the subject services in the City Bulletin in accordance with the provisions of Section 329.14 of Columbus City Codes. The Division of Sewerage and Drainage received proposals on September 30, 2013 from the following companies:
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