Title
Resolution Approving Extension of Professional Services Contract 2018-051, in the Amount of $50,000.00, with Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. for Added Storm Drainage Tasks for the Davie Street Streetscape Project
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Council Priority: Maintain Infrastructure and Provide Sustainable Growth Opportunities
Department: Engineering & Inspections
Council District: 3
Public Hearing: N/A
Advertising Date/By: N/A
Contact 1 and Phone: Chris Spencer, 433-7218
Contact 2 and Phone: Kenney McDowell, 373-2302
PURPOSE:
Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. is needed to provide additional design engineering services for the Davie Street Streetscape Project. City Council approval of a contract extension to the professional services contract in the amount of $50,000.00 is requested.
BACKGROUND:
The City of Greensboro desires to design construction plans from A. Brenner Place to McGee Street. The design is to include: roadway and hydraulic engineering, landscape architecture, traffic engineering, and traffic signal analysis. Also, included is the design for replacing an existing 12” CI water main with a new 12” DI water main.
Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. was awarded the design contract for the Davie Street Streetscape Project by City Council on October 16, 2018 in the amount of $604,863.00.
The Transportation Department has identified a need to add the following tasks: Subsurface Utility Engineering Level B (SUE B) to better identify all utility conflict and precisely quantify the conflicts and conflict resolution. The cost to incorporate the additional engineering is $50,000.00. With this extension, the new total amount of the contract will be 654,863.00.
The original MWBE utilization was WBE 15.3%. This additional design engineering service will utilize Wetherill Engineering, a WBE subcontractor.
BUDGET IMPACT:
The design contract extension will be funded as follows:
484-2201-04.5410 2016 Downtown Streetscape Improvements Bond $50,000.00
RECOMMENDATION / ACTION REQUESTED:
The Transportation and Engineering & Inspections Departments recommend approval of the contract extension with Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.