Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a professional engineering services agreement with Korda/Nemeth Engineering, Inc. for the UIRF Oak Street Decorative Street Lighting Project CIP #440007-100020 and the UIRF East Main Street Decorative Street Lighting Project CIP #440007-100021 in the amount of $69,381.86, for the Division of Power.
The purpose of this project is to provide a decorative street lighting system on East Main Street, from South Gould Road to Barnett Road, and on Oak Street, near the 18th Street intersection. These projects will provide decorative fiberglass poles with Light Emitting Diode (LED) post top luminaires on Oak Street, and aluminum poles with decorative LED teardrop luminaires on East Main Street. The project will remove existing High Pressure Sodium (HPS) lighting, 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/Nemeth 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 ...
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