Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to modify (Mod #1) an engineering agreement with HDR Engineering Inc. for the Blueprint Linden Oakland Park / Medina project, CIP 650870-100702. The scope of work for this proposed phase of the project is to refine the recommendations included in the Preliminary Design Report previously developed as part of the initial phase of work, and provide detailed design services to produce fully independent construction documents for the Green Infrastructure technologies and other related work items necessary to achieve the project goals of: mitigating Designed Sewer Relief (DSR) activations, Water In Basement (WIB) occurrences, and street/yard flooding, as well as provide storm water detention and treatment via the re-purposing of Columbus Land Redevelopment Office (Land Bank) abandoned and vacant parcels for the implementation of Green Infrastructure (GI). The specific work activities of this scope include development of detailed construction drawings and bidding documents, meetings with stakeholders, submission of permits, and providing responses to all contractors inquires during the bidding process.
1.1 Amount of additional funds to be expended: $634,343.43
Original Contract $1,599,706.01
Modification No. 1(Current) $ 634,343.43
CURRENT TOTAL $2,234,049.44
Modification No. 2 (Future) $ 250,000.00
Future Total $2,484,049.44
1.2 Reasons additional goods/services could not be foreseen:
This Contract Modification No. 1 was planned and anticipated, and so stated in the original contract’s legislation.
1.3 Reason other procurement processes are not used:
Re-bid of the project will likely result in a higher project costs as much of the project history would be lost and required to be rediscovered by another consultant unless won by the same consultant. In such a ca...
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