Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to enter into professional services contracts with Woolpert in the amount of up to $525,000.00 for the Arterial Street Rehabilitation - Cassady Avenue Widening project.
The intent of this contract is to provide the Department of Public Service with continuing, contractual access to additional resources that are necessary to provide various professional engineering, survey, and technical expertise for the department to implement improvements to Cassady Avenue from the CSX railroad tracks just north of Delmar Drive to E. 7th Avenue. Cassady Avenue is planned to be widened to a 3-lane section and reconstructed as a complete street with pedestrian and bikeway facilities, lighting, curb and gutter, and closed drainage. The project includes improvements to E. 5th Avenue at the intersection with Cassady.
The Department of Public Service, Office of Support Services, solicited Requests for Proposals for the Arterial Street Rehabilitation - Cassady Avenue Widening contract. The project was formally advertised on the Vendor Services web site from May 22, 2017, to June 15, 2017. The City received ten (10) responses. All proposals were deemed responsive and were fully evaluated when the Evaluation Committee met on June 6, 2017.
The responding firms were:
Company Name City/State Majority/MBE/MBR/F1/AS1/PHC
Woolpert Columbus, OH MAJ
Crawford, Murphy and Tilly Columbus, OH MAJ
Prime AE Group Columbus, OH AS1
DLZ Ohio Worthington, OH MBR
E.L. Robinson Columbus, OH MAJ
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