Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a professional engineering services agreement with Smoot Construction for the Professional Construction Management Services agreement for the Small Capital Projects (PCMS) for the Wastewater Treatment and Water Facilities. The contract provides construction administration and management services including construction inspection, construction and startup coordination, reporting, budgeting, scheduling, document tracking, and related tasks associated with a multi-project program for DOSD and DOW construction contracts.
This contract will provide an Outreach Program to Disadvantaged and Under-Utilized Businesses with the intention to increase opportunities and participation in the procurement of goods and services related to construction projects. A key component of this Outreach program will be training/education.
DPU recognizes the importance of supplier diversity and seeks to strengthen the economic development and viability for disadvantaged and under-utilized businesses by creating sound business relationships. This project will institute a variety of initiatives to identify and encourage disadvantaged and under-utilized businesses to participate in the DPU procurement/bidding process in an effort to ensure continued growth of business opportunities for those business enterprises.
This legislation is associated with the services for the following Construction Contracts:
650262-101000 DOSD, Professional Construction Management Services for Small Capital Projects
690548-100000 DOW, Professional Construction Management Services for Small Capital Projects
The Divisions have determined that these services cannot be performed by City personnel at this time, and has planned for the procurement of these services on a routine basis. The actual construction and commissioning of upgrades in the several facilities will generally be accomplished by others.
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