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Resolution to Approve Professional Services Agreement with Stantec Consulting Michigan Inc. for the West High Service Pump Upgrade and Barton Pump Station Electrical Improvements Project ($128,650.00)
Memorandum
This memorandum and resolution request approval of the professional services agreement with Stantec Consulting Michigan Inc. to provide professional engineering services for the study phase of the West High Service Pump Upgrade and Barton Pump Station Electrical Improvements Project. This project is included as an urgent project for 2010 and 2011 in the City’s approved Capital Improvements Plan.
This project includes two components. The first component is the upgrade of the West High Service Pumps at the Water Treatment Plant. These pumps provide water to the west side of Ann Arbor as well as Scio Township. In the City’s water services agreement with Scio Township these pumps were scheduled to be upgraded once Scio Township reached a daily demand of 2.5 million gallons per day. This target was reached several years ago. Since that time the City has been working with Scio Township to firm up the financing and schedule for this work. Since this work is driven by Scio Township’s water demand they will fund the majority of this work.
The second component of this project is to replace some aging electrical switchgear at Barton Pump Station that dates back to 1949. This switchgear is not compliant with current National Electrical Code and creates a safety hazard for Public Services Staff. In addition, spare parts are not readily available, and in the event of a failure would be difficult to repair. Failure of this equipment would jeopardize the Water Treatment Plant’s ability to provide a sufficient quantity of water to City customers.
Because similar equipment will likely be included in both of these projects, the coordinated timing of these projects, and the economy of scale generated by combining them, it was decided to issue a single Re...
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