Explanation
1. BACKGROUND:
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to enter into a professional engineering services contract with EMH&T.
The intent of this contract is to provide the Department of Public Service with continuing, contractual access to additional resources that are necessary to perform various traffic signal facilities design and associated tasks for the Department. The selected consultant shall be readily available to perform such tasks when requested by the City. Services on request and detailed scopes of individual projects will be developed as requested and work will be authorized as individual scopes are developed. The consultant shall be expected to work on multiple projects concurrently.
The Department of Public Service, Office of Support Services, solicited Requests for Proposals for the Signal Installation - General Engineering Signals (2016) contract. The project was formally advertised on the Vendor Services web site from March 10, 2016 to April 7, 2016. The city received six responses. All proposals were deemed responsive and were fully evaluated when the Evaluation Committee met on April 14, 2016. The responding firms were:
Company Name City/State Majority/MBE/FBE/ASN/PHC
EMH&T Columbus, OH MAJ
GPD Group Columbus, OH MAJ
TranSystems Columbus, OH MAJ
DLZ Ohio, Inc. Columbus, OH MBR
E.P. Ferris Columbus, OH MAJ
Resource International Columbus, OH MAJ
EMH&T received the highest score by the evaluation committee and will be awarded the contract in an amount up to $300,000.00.
Searches in the System for Award Management (Federal) and the Findings for Recovery list (State) produced no findings against EMH&T.
2. FISCAL IMPACT:
Funding for this project is budgeted in the 2016 Capital Improvements Budget. An amendment to the budget is necessary to provide sufficient budget authority and cash for the appropriate projects.
3. EMER...
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