Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into an agreement with Stantec Consulting Services, Inc., for professional engineering services for the Westgate Tank Replacement Project, in an amount up to $186,648.28, under Division of Water Contract No. 2032.
The Westgate East 1-million gallon elevated tank was constructed in 1930 and is the Division of Water’s oldest operating elevated storage tank. The tank’s age and condition indicate that replacement is warranted over investing capital to keep the existing tank operational. If kept in service, significant structural repairs are anticipated the next time the tank is sandblasted and repainted. This project follows the recommendation of the Water Distribution System Master Plan and will increase elevated storage in the Mound pressure district from 2 million gallons to 3 million gallons (new tank will be 2-million gallons; there is another 1-million gallon tank in the pressure district).
2. ECONOMIC IMPACT/ADVANTAGES; COMMUNITY OUTREACH; PROJECT DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS/ADVANTAGES OF PROJECT: The project will incorporate measures such as energy efficient lighting to reduce the energy demand of this facility.
3. BID INFORMATION: The selection of the firm providing the professional engineering services has been performed in accordance with the procedures set forth in Columbus City Code, Section 329.14, "Awarding professional service contracts through requests for proposals." The evaluation criteria for this contract included: 1. proposal quality, 2. experience of team, 3. ability to perform expeditiously, 4. past performance, 5. environmentally preferable offeror, and 6. local workforce.
Requests for Proposals (RFP’s) were received on February 14, 2014 from Stantec Consulting Services, PRIME AE Group, CT Consultants, Ribway Engineering Broup, EMH&T, and GRW Engineers.
An evaluation committee reviewed the proposals and scored them based on ...
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