Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This Ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to modify and increase the professional engineering services agreement with ARCADIS U.S., Inc. for the Comprehensive Water Audit Project, Division of Water Contract No. 1176.
The original agreement provided a water audit of the water distribution system to identify and quantify sources of non-revenue water and make recommendations to achieve better operational efficiency. The audit identified needed improvements to the reporting in the billing system (CUBS).
This proposed modification will allow ARCADIS U.S. to provide support to the Department of Technology in development of more accurate reporting mechanisms, including additional financial routines, within the Columbus Utility Billing System (CUBS) to provide better output of CUBS information for future water auditing and other reporting purposes.
See the attached Information for a description of the three tasks involved in this modification.
1.1 Amount of additional funds to be expended: $170,440.00
Original Contract Amount: $ 347,592.11 (EL012420)
Modification No. 1 (current): $ 170,440.00
Total (Orig. + Mod. 1) $ 518,032.11
1.2. Reasons additional goods/services could not be foreseen:
The audit identified the need for new and improved consumption and financial reports in the billing system (CUBS).
1.3. Reason other procurement processes are not used:
ARCADIS, U.S., Inc. spent over a year performing detailed analysis of the reporting routines and water consumption data for the 289,000 water customers and are intimately familiar with the CUBS billing system.
1.4. How cost of modification was determined:
A cost estimate, including labor hours, was provided by the consultant.
2. ECONOMIC IMPACT/ADVANTAGES; COMMUNITY OUTREACH; PROJECT DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS/ADVANTAGES OF PROJECT: The economic impact of the finished project will be the reduction of unbilled ...
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