Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Utilities to modify and increase an existing engineering agreement with Strand Associates, Inc. for the Sewer Maintenance Operations Center (SMOC) Facility Stormwater Improvements. The purpose of this project is to perform the requisite investigation, evaluation, formulation and design work to produce fully independent construction documents for the installation of green infrastructure (GI) technologies and other related activities and/or documents necessary for project completion of mitigating stormwater issues at SMOC.
The project scope was expanded to include mitigation of stormwater noncompliance issue at the facility. The additional funds will be utilized for additional design services necessary to complete project plan development including plan revisions requested by the DOSD, obtaining building permits, and to provide increased services during and post construction.
1.1. Amount of additional funds to be expended: $88,111.60
Original Contract $349,829.39
Modification 1 $208,933.10
Modification 2 (current) $88,111.60
Total $646,874.09
1.2 Reasons additional goods/services could not be foreseen:
This Contract Modification No. 2 was planned and anticipated, and stated in the original contract’s legislation. It is a planned continuation of the services originally included within the existing contract’s scope of service.
1.3 Reason other procurement processes are not used:
Re-bid of the project 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, significant time would be wasted in acquiring and evaluating the new proposals without significant benefit.
1.4 How cost of modification was determined:
The costs of Contract Modification #2 were determined by negotiations between Strand Associates, Inc. and the DOSD.
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