Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to enter into a contract for the construction of the ADA Ramp Projects - Sidewalk NOV 2014 project and to provide payment for construction administration and inspection services.
This contract consists of building ADA curb ramps at various locations within the corporation limits of the City of Columbus and other such work as may be necessary to complete the contract in accordance with the plans and specifications set forth in the Bid Submittal Documents. These are high priority ramps based on 311 Service Requests received and the repair sites will be issued on an on-call basis.
The estimated Notice to Proceed date is October 1, 2014. The project was let by the Office of Support Services through Vendor Services and Bid Express. Four bids were received on August 19, 2014 (four majority) and tabulated on August 20, 2014 as follows:
Company Name Bid Amount City/State Majority/MBE/FBE
Decker Construction Company $275,914.60 Columbus, OH Majority
Strawser Paving Company, Inc. $304,763.91 Columbus, OH Majority
Decker Construction Company $428,620.55 Columbus, OH Majority
G & G Cement Contractors $512,999.30 Columbus, OH Majority
Award is to be made to Decker Construction Company as the lowest responsive and responsible and best bidder. The contract amount will be $363,350.00 in accordance with Special Provision 146 of the bid documents, which states, “It is the City’s intent to fully utilize the available funding provided to its Curb Ramp Program within the approved Capital Improvements Budget. Therefore, the City reserves the right to add funds to the base bid amount, up to a maximum of $363,350.00. The total amount of the work and other incidentals will not exceed the total amount of the contract (maximum of $363,350.00). In the event that the City does add ramps to the or...
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