Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes and directs the Director of Public Utilities to renew an existing engineering agreement with Evans Mechart Hambleton & Tilton (EMH&T) Inc. for the Blacklick Sanitary Intercept Sewer, Section 6, Parts B&C for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage. The design consultant shall provide all engineering services during construction including, but not limited to: attendance at all construction kickoff meetings, progress, and disputes review board meetings, submittal reviews, response to requests for information from contractors, preparation of requests for proposals, claims and change order reviews, coordination of well dewatering response plan, and record plan production.
2. Planning Area is 21 - Far East. The consultant has performed the requisite field surveys, geotechnical investigations, and hydraulic calculations necessary to generate the Preliminary Engineering Report which outlined the recommended horizontal and vertical alignments for the proposed sewer. The report concluded that the most economical method for constructing the sewer will be via tunneling methods. The consultant has also completed a Final Design Report, performed all necessary field surveys to generate detailed construction plans, obtained all requisite permits, prepared site-specific maintenance of traffic plans, and produced all specifications necessary for the bidding process. All future work shall be engineering services during construction, described in greater detail in Section 9 of the Director’s Information Sheet.
3. PROJECT TIMELINE: Contract services shall extend through the duration of the construction process, which will conclude in 2020.
4. Contract Compliance No.: 31-0685594 | MAJ | Exp. 01/19/20 | Vendor #: 004214
5. Emergency Designation: Emergency designation is not requested at this time.
6. ECONOMIC IMPACT: This tunnel project will construct a new gravity sanitary sewer which will provide service...
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