Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify a professional services contract with Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson to add additional funds for design of the UIRF - South Linden Sidewalks 2017 project.
Ordinance 2993-2017 authorized the Director of Public Service to enter into a professional services contract with Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson for the UIRF - South Linden Sidewalks 2017 project. The intent of this contract was to provide the Department of Public Service with continuing, contractual access to additional resources that are necessary to perform various professional engineering, surveying, and technical expertise for the department to implement projects for the Department of Development through the City’s Urban Infrastructure Recovery Fund (UIRF) program.
Ordinance 0011-2019 modified the contract in the amount of $21,319.87. This was an unplanned modification. Prior to issuing the contract it was necessary to estimate the number of driveways that would not be in compliance with a pedestrian accessible route (PAR). The survey work performed by Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson as part of the contract showed more driveways out of compliance with PAR than originally estimated, requiring more design work than planned. In addition, post-construction stormwater Best Management Practices have to be located outside of the existing right-of-way, requiring additional survey and design expenses. It was deemed to be more cost efficient to modify the existing contract than to bid this part of the work as Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson had the existing survey data and could more efficiently integrate the new survey data with the pre-existing survey data.
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify the contract in the amount of $40,018.23.
The original contract amount: $148,287.41 (PO096157, Ord. 2993-2017)
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