Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to modify (Mod #1) an existing professional engineering agreement with GPD GROUP (Glaus, Pyle, Schomer, Burns & Dehaven) for the West Franklinton Sewer Improvements project, CIP 650870-116161. This project will design 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. PROJECT MODIFICATION: Amount of additional funds to be expended: $75,599.17
2.1. Original Contract (PO048091) $99,809.42
Modification No. 1 (Current) $75,599.17
TOTAL Cost ($) $175,408.59
2.2. Reasons additional goods/services could not be foreseen:
This contract modification was unplanned. Because of the flooding problem at the exact same location of the existing West Franklinton project, and in order to save cost and time, this modification is issued.
2.3. Reason other procurement processes were not used:
Re-bid of the project under the new requirements 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 case, we would have wasted significant time in acquiring and evaluating the new proposals without significant benefit.
2.4. How was the cost of the modification determined:
The costs were determined through negotiations between GPD and DOSD.
3. THE PROJECT TIMELINE: It is anticipated that the modification contract documents will be signed in September of 2017. It is anticipated the project will take approximately 2 years to complete.
4. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: An emergency designation is not requested at this time.
5. CONTRACT COMPLIANCE No.: 34-1134715 | MAJ | Exp. 06/29/2019 | Vendor #: 006560
6. ECONOMIC IMPACT: This project will improv...
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