Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to enter into contract with Woolpert, Inc., in the amount of up to $350,000.00 for the Arterial Street Rehabilitation - Parsons Avenue - Franklin Avenue to Broad Street.
The Department of Public Service is initiating a procurement effort that will result in the award and execution of a professional services contract related to the development of improvements to Parsons Avenue from Franklin Avenue to Broad Street. Improvements are recommended in the Near East Plan (2005) and the Olde Towne Quarter Economic Development Strategy (2010).
Improvements will generally consist of pavement reconstruction with curb line relocations, addition of curb extensions defining on-street parking areas, wider sidewalks, new street trees, new street lighting, new mast arm traffic signals, relocation of all overhead utilities to underground systems, new water line, new storm water facilities including Green Infrastructure, a new planted median at the intersection of Broad and Parsons accommodating Public Art to be designed by others, and traffic control changes such as eliminating one of the two northbound left turn lanes at Broad and Parsons and the addition of a westbound left turn lane at Broad and Parsons.
This project is intended to be constructed in advance of ODOT's I-70/71 project (FRA-71-17.14, PID 77371). ODOT's project will install Elijah Pierce Avenue, a 3-lane, one way (NB) roadway from Parsons Avenue just north of Town Street to north of Broad Street. Coordination between the two design teams will be required.
The Department of Public Service, Office of Support Services, solicited Requests for Proposals for the Arterial Street Rehabilitation - Parsons Avenue - Franklin Avenue to Broad Street. The project was formally advertised on the Vendor Services web site from March 27, 2014, to April 17, 2014. The city received nine (9) responses. Eight of the nine proposals were deemed res...
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