Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify a professional engineering services contract with Crawford, Murphy & Tilly, Inc. for the Arterial Street Rehabilitation - Hague Avenue - Broad Street to Sullivant Avenue project.
The intent of this project is to provide the City of Columbus with preliminary and final engineering for improvements to Hague Avenue between Sullivant Avenue and Broad Street, located in the Hilltop Community Planning Area (CPA 15).
This modification will expand the scope of work to include performing safety studies at the intersections of Hague Avenue and Broad Street and Hague Avenue and Sullivant Avenue and designing water line improvements on the east side of Hague Avenue.
Original contract amount $300,000.00 (Ordinance 0565-2013, EL014227)
Modification number 1 $50,0000.00
Total amount of the contract, including this modification $350,000.00
Searches in the System for Award Management (Federal) and the Findings for Recovery list (State) produced no findings against Crawford, Murphy, & Tilly, Inc.
2. FISCAL IMPACT
Funding in the amount of $50,000.00 is available for this project and this legislation appropriates the funds as followed: $28,006.17 from the Streets and Highways Bonds Fund within the Department of Public Service, and $21,993.83 from the Water Build America Bonds Fund with the Department of Public Utilities. An amendment to the 2014 Capital Improvements Budget is necessary to establish sufficient cash and authority in the proper project.
3. CONTRACT COMPLIANCE
The contract compliance number for Crawford, Murphy & Tilly, Inc. is 37-0844662.
4. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION
The Department of Public Service is requesting emergency designation so as to provide necessary engineering and design funding to prevent unnecessary delays in the department’s Capital Improvement Program.
Title
To amend the 2014 Capital Improvements Budget; to authorize and direct ...
Click here for full text