Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify a professional engineering services contract with Glaus, Pyle, Schomer, Burns and DeHaven, Inc., dba GPD Associates, for the Roadway Improvements - Livingston Avenue - Front to Fourth project.
Ordinance 1662-2014 authorized the Director of Public Service to waive bidding and enter into contract with GPD Associates in the amount of up to $1,000,000.00 for the Roadway Improvements - Livingston Avenue - Front to Fourth project. That project involves the preparation of detailed design plans for roadway improvements to Livingston Avenue and West Fulton Street from the western leg of Front Street to Oscar Alley, east of Fourth Street.
Ordinance 1844-2015 authorized the Director of Public Service to modify the contract with GPD Associates in the amount of up to $1,000,000.00 for the Roadway Improvements - Livingston Avenue Phase C - Fifth Street to Kennedy Drive project. This modification was necessary to include work requested and funded by Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
Ordinance 0063-2016 authorized the Director of Public Service to modify the contract with GPD Associates in the amount of up to $242,769.00 for the Roadway Improvements - Livingston Avenue Phase A - Front Street to High Street portion of the contract to add funds to complete the original scope of work. This portion of the work was a joint project between the Department of Public Service and the Department of Public Utilities.
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify the contract with GPD Associates in the amount of $270,000.00. This is a planned modification to add funds to complete the original scope of work. It was deemed to be more cost efficient to modify the existing contract than to bid this part of the work.
Original contract amount: $1,000,000.00 (Ordinance 1662-2014, EL016338)
Modification number 1: $1,000,000.00 (Ordinance...
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