Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a professional engineering services agreement with Patrick Engineering, Inc. for the Milo Grogan Decorative and Standard Street Lighting Projects CIP# 440007-100013, 440007-100014, and 440007-100015 in the amount of $111,474.12, for the Division of Power.
The purpose of this project is to provide the Milo Grogan area with decorative and overhead street lighting on Cleveland Avenue between Third Avenue and the rail road tracks, Third Avenue between the Olentangy River bridge and Neil Avenue, and at various locations on Bonham Avenue, Olmstead Avenue, Starr Avenue and Dupont Avenue as per the requests of the community residents.
2. ECONOMIC IMPACT/ADVANTAGES; COMMUNITY OUTREACH; PROJECT DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS/ADVANTAGES OF PROJECT: This project is in response to public requests for street lighting in the area.
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 Advanced Engineering Consultants, Dynotec, EMH&T, Patrick Engineering, Inc., 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 Patrick Engineering, Inc. Each of the remaining engineering firms were each awarded one of the five (5) other projects.
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