Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to modify (Mod #3) an existing engineering agreement with CDM Smith Inc. for professional engineering services for the Wastewater Treatment Facilities Instrumentation and Control (I&C) Integration and Programming Team Project. The services to be provided are professional engineering and technical services necessary for the DPU’s SCADA, Telemetry, and Process Control Systems. The actual project specific detailed design and construction will generally be accomplished by others. CDM Smith, Inc. will provide technical and engineering assistance to the City as requested, during the design and construction efforts. The Scope of Work for this project will consist of the following tasks: (1) Project Management; (2) Project Development Assistance; (3) Project Integration; (4)
Project Integration to Servers; (5) Intra-Site Integration; (6) Daily Engineering and Technical Support; and (7) Training. Note: for additional information regarding the various Scope of Work Tasks please see the attachment: Director’s Information Sheet, Section 5.
2. MODIFICATION INFORMATION:
Amount of additional funds to be expended: $499,750.00
2013 Original Contract $349,988.00
2014 Modification #1 $711,635.00
2015 Modification #2 $500,000.00
2016 Modification #3 (Current) $499,750.00
Estimated Total $2,061,373.00
Reasons additional goods/services could not be foreseen:
This Contract Modification No. 3 was planned and anticipated, and so stated in the original contract legislation. It is a planned continuation of the services originally included within the existing contract’s scope of service.
Reason other procurement processes are not used:
In so much as the majority of this work was planned for and anticipated within the original procurement, and due to the highly complex and technical nature of the engineering assistance provided to the City, it is n...
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