Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a professional engineering services agreement with Evans, Mechwart, Hambleton, & Tilton Inc. for the South High Street Decorative Street Lighting Project #CIP 440007-100009 and 440007-100010 in the amount of $105,644.13 for the Division of Power.
The purpose of this project is to provide replacement of existing aluminum poles and High Pressure Sodium (HPS) cobra head luminaires to black poles and LED shoebox-shaped fixtures on exiting foundations with 3-wire installation on South High Street from Williams Road to Obetz Road. Additionally, the project will replace existing aluminum poles and HPS cobra head luminaires to black poles and LED teardrop-shaped fixtures on existing foundations with 3-wire installation.
2. ECONOMIC IMPACT/ADVANTAGES; COMMUNITY OUTREACH; PROJECT DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS/ADVANTAGES OF PROJECT: This project is in response to public requests for updated 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 Evans, Mechwart, Hambleton, & Tilton Inc. Each of the remaining eng...
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