Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to enter a professional engineering agreement with GPD GROUP (Glaus, Pyle, Schomer, Burns & Dehaven) for the West Franklinton Sewer Improvements project, CIP 650870-116161. The Integrated Plan and 2015 Wet Weather Management Plan Update Report presents the City of Columbus’ revised plan for bringing the city into compliance with its consent orders. The revised plan integrates green infrastructure along with gray infrastructure improvements. This revised plan, referred to as Blueprint Columbus, identifies numerous improvements within its SSO areas. The West Franklinton is one of such improvement. This project will construct upgrades to the collection system in the West Franklinton Blueprint area by upsizing existing sanitary sewer pipes to a larger diameter in order to convey additional flow. This will help to reduce the occurrence of sewer backups into basements.
2. THE PROJECT TIMELINE: It is anticipated that a notice to proceed will be issued in December of 2016 with a start date of February 2017. It is anticipated that it will take 18 months to complete the assessment.
3. PROCUREMENT: The Division advertised for a Request for Proposals (RFP’s) for the subject services on the City’s Vendor Services website and in the City Bulletin in accordance with the overall provisions of Section 329 of the Columbus City Code. The Division of Sewerage and Drainage received six (6) received on May 13, 2016 from the following companies:
Name C.C. No. Exp. Date Vendor# City/State Status
GPD Group* 34-1134715 5-28-2017 006560 Columbus/OH MAJ
Columbus Engineering Cons 31-0716498 5-31-2017 004232 Columbus/OH ASN
E.P. Ferris & Associates, Inc. 31-1194974 5-15-2017 004823 Columbus/OH MAJ
Prime AE Group 26-0546656 2-2...
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