Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a professional engineering services agreement with Dynotec, Inc. for the UIRF Cleveland Avenue Street Lighting Project CIP# 440007-100017 in the amount of $74,150.41, for the Division of Power.
The purpose of this project is to provide a decorative street lighting system on Cleveland Avenue, from East Weber Road to Dunedin Road within Community Planning Area 11 - North Linden. The project will provide decorative fiberglass poles with Light Emitting Diode (LED) post top luminaires. The project will also remove existing High Pressure Sodium (HPS) lighting, as requested by the residents of the area.
2. ECONOMIC IMPACT/ADVANTAGES; COMMUNITY OUTREACH; PROJECT DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS/ADVANTAGES OF PROJECT: This project is in response to public requests for a decorative underground street lighting system on Cleveland Avenue. The project will include removal of existing lighting and installation of new LED lighting, which is more energy efficient and requires less maintenance.
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, "Awarding professional service contracts through requests for proposals." The evaluation criteria for this contract included: 1. Proposal Quality, 2. Environmental Innovation, 3. Experience of Team, 4. Ability to Perform Expeditiously, 5. Past Performance, and 6. Local Workforce.
Requests for Proposals (RFP's) were received on March 18, 2016 for six different Division of Power projects from AEC, Dynotec, EMH&T, Patrick Engineering, MS Consultants, and Korda Engineering. An evaluation committee reviewed the proposals and scored them based on the criteria mentioned above. The Department of Public Utilities recommends that this contract be awarded to Dynotec, Inc. Each of the remain...
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