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Resolution to Approve a Construction Contract with DiPonio Contracting, LLC for the Crescents Water Main Replacement and Resurfacing Project (RFP 23-61; $7,691,341.70) and to Appropriate $6,601,000.00 in Contributing Funds. (8 Votes Required)
Memorandum
Attached for your review and approval, please find a resolution to approve a construction contract between the City of Ann Arbor and DiPonio Contracting, LLC in the amount of $7,691,341.70 for the Crescents Water Main Replacement and Resurfacing (RFP 23-61).
The scope of this project includes watermain replacement, miscellaneous storm inlet replacements, and street resurfacing at the following locations:
* Creal Crescent - Dead End to Saunders Crescent
* Argyle Crescent -Creal Crescent to Saunders Crescent
* Helen Street- Creal Crescent to Hatcher Crescent
* Creal Court - Creal Crescent to End
* Hatcher Crescent - Miller to Saunders
* Cooley Avenue - Saunders to end of public right-of-way
* Saunders Crescent - Hatcher to Miller
The construction of the project is scheduled to begin in March 2024 and continue through October 2024.
Engineering staff supervised the creation of plans and contract documents and bid the project through the City's Procurement Unit. On December 19, 2023 seven proposals were received for this work. A selection committee comprised of Public Services staff reviewed the proposals and determined which bidder was the Best Value based on the criteria in ORD-21-41:
* Qualifications, Experience, & Accountability (20%)
* Workplace Safety (20%)
* Workforce Development (20%)
* Social Equity & Sustainability (20%)
* Schedule of Pricing/Cost (20%)
After reviewing and scoring the proposals, staff ranked the responding firms in the following order:
1. DiPonio Contracting, LLC.
2. E.T. MacKenzie Company, Inc.
3. Bailey Excavating, Inc.
4. Verdeterre Contracting, Inc.
5. Fonson Company, Inc.
6. Major Contracting Group Inc.
7. Miller Bros. Const., Inc.
DiPonio Contracting, LLC. (DiPonio) rec...
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