Title
Resolution Approving Extension of Professional Services Contract 2009-056A with Withers & Ravenel, Inc., for the Design of the Downtown Greenway Phase 2
Body
Department: Engineering & Inspections
Council District: 2, 3
Public Hearing: N/A
Advertising Date/By: N/A
Contact 1 and Phone: Kenney McDowell, 373-2302
Contact 2 and Phone: Ted Kallam, 373-2302
PURPOSE:
Withers & Ravenel, Inc. is needed to provide additional engineering services for the federally funded Downtown Greenway Phase 2 project, EL5101DJ. City Council approval of a contract extension to the professional services contract in the amount of $130,997.75 is requested.
BACKGROUND:
The downtown greenway will enhance pedestrian and bicycle circulation in and around downtown, serving as a hub for a larger future greenway network and improving transportation safety and mobility choices. Phase 2 is the section of the greenway along Murrow Boulevard and Fisher Avenue, from E. Lee Street to N. Eugene Street.
Withers & Ravenel was awarded the design contract for Phase 2 by City Council on June 5, 2012, in the amount of $680,531. Two extensions to the contract for design services to upgrade water lines on a portion of W. Fisher Avenue and N. Church Street were authorized by Council on August 5, 2013, and August 3, 2015, in the total amount of $18,870.
The Transportation Department, with the approval of the NCDOT, has identified the need to add several items to the contract: a bike lane on Murrow Boulevard, bridge alterations at Summit Avenue, traffic signal design, revision of the ramp design at Summit Avenue, and a Phase II environmental site assessment. The cost to incorporate the additional engineering is $130,997.75. With this contract extension, the new total amount of the contract will be $830,398.75.
BUDGET IMPACT:
The design contract extension in the amount of $130,997.75 will be funded from Transportation Department account 401-4542-01.5410. A budget adjustment is required to move funding from the construction account for this project into the design account. No new funding is needed for this extension.
RECOMMENDATION / ACTION REQUESTED:
The Transportation and Engineering & Inspections Departments recommends and requests approval of the contract extension with Withers & Ravenel, Inc. and approval of the associated budget adjustment.
COMMITTEE ACTION: This item was referred to Council by the Infrastructure and Community Services Committees.