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Resolution to Approve Third Amendment to Agreement with Northwest Consultants, Inc. (NCI) for Construction Engineering and Additional Design Engineering Services for the E. Stadium Boulevard Bridges Replacement Project ($609,815.00)
Memorandum
Attached please find a resolution to increase the Professional Services Agreement (PSA) with Northwest Consultants, Inc. (NCI) in an amount of $609,815.00, for the future construction engineering ($299,597.00), and additional design engineering services ($310,218.00) for the E. Stadium Boulevard Bridges Replacement Project. To date, the City Council has approved $1,623,624.00 for the planning and the design engineering services with NCI. After this amendment, the new total contract with NCI will be $2,233,439.00. The costs associated with this amendment will come from the appropriate City Funds that are responsible for the work, i.e. Street Repair Millage, Storm Sewer, Sanitary Sewer, and Water System Funds. The amount of each fund’s responsibility will be its pro-rata amount.
ADDITIONAL DESIGN ENGINEERING
During the course of the final design and the construction plan preparation and in the latter part of 2010 and in 2011 we were required to perform additional tasks as requested by FHWA/MDOT in order to be able to meet all needed federal-aid oversight requirements and procedures. Due to those additional engineering services by NCI for revisions to the design and the construction plans we expect an estimated savings of about $1,560,000.00 in the project’s future construction cost. The total cost of these additional design engineering services by NCI is $310,218.00. The following are the detailed information for the cost of these additional services and the estimated construction savings.
· In total for the following tasks we expect to save about $1,260,000.00 dollars in the future construction costs and to add $130,696.00 to the design engineering costs. We participated in a Value Engineering Process (VEP) that...
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