Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a professional engineering services agreement with Advanced Engineering Consultants, LTD for the 14143 Circuit Upgrade/17th Avenue Circuit Upgrade and 11th Avenue Capital Improvement Project CIP# 670608-100010 in the amount of $246,933.91for the Division of Power.
The purpose of this project is to provide conductor upgrades, circuit extensions and circuit conversions per the requirements of the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC). Three (3) separate areas or phases of this project include the Near North/University and South Linden planning areas. The first phase will be to re-conductor Circuit 14143 existing single phase conductors along 17th Avenue from Summit Street to Clara Street to three-phase construction and on Summit Street from 19th Avenue to 11th Avenue. This will also create a tie with Circuit 14153. The second phase will be to extend the circuit, re-conductor and convert from Circuit 7221 to Circuit 14153. This phase will be between Hudson Street and 17th Avenue along Hamilton Avenue. The third phase will be to re-conductor existing Circuit 14143 along 11th Avenue between Grant Avenue and Kingry Street.
2. ECONOMIC IMPACT/ADVANTAGES; COMMUNITY OUTREACH; PROJECT DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS/ADVANTAGES OF PROJECT: The economic advantage of this project is that the conversion of a 7.2KV circuit to 14.4KV will reduce line losses on this portion of the project. This will help accelerate the Division of Power’s plan to eliminate the remaining 7.2KV circuits. This circuit work will allow the Division of Power to have additional tie points to provide a more reliable circuit. In addition to the distribution improvements the Division of Power will be changing or adding LED street lighting with this work. This will reduce the energy use on these street lights.
3. BID INFORMATION: Requests for Proposals (RFP's) were received on March 18, 2...
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