Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a professional engineering services agreement with MS Consultants, Inc. for the Mock Road Street Lighting Project #CIP 440007-100016, North Central Street Lighting Project CIP# 440007-100018, and Innis Road Street Lighting Project CIP# 440007-100019 in the amount of $132,470.78, for the Division of Power.
The purpose of this project is to provide a standard street lighting system on Mock Road, Innis Road and the North Central Area with LED luminaires as requested by the area 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 MS Consultants, Inc. Each of the remaining engineering firms were each awarded one of the five (5) other projects.
The Contract Compliance Number for MS Consultants, Inc. is 34-6546916 (expires 2/18/2018, MAJ, DAX Vendor # 006998, Tax ID #34-6546916). Additional information regarding all bidders, descr...
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