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Resolution to Approve Amendment No. 1 to the Professional Services Agreement with Tetra Tech of Michigan, PC, for Water Treatment Professional Engineering Services ($100,000.00)
Memorandum
This memorandum and resolution requests approval of Amendment No. 1 to the professional services agreement for professional engineering services with Tetra Tech. Council approved a professional services agreement for $200,000.00 with Tetra Tech in July 2016 as part of Resolution No. R-16-214.
The City is seeking to amend the professional services agreement with Tetra Tech for an additional $100,000.00 ($300,000.00 total) to accommodate additional professional engineering service needs over the remaining duration of the contract. Tetra Tech is currently supporting Public Services on numerous projects within the Water Treatment Services Unit (WTSU). Of the six (6) responses received, Tetra Tech was selected as part of RFP 963 which requested the services of consulting engineers to provide engineering services for a diverse set of needs at the WTSU. Tetra Tech was selected as a team having the most qualified and most cost effective staff. The task-based contract is effective FY17 through FY19. As of the end of FY17, Tetra Tech has completed several projects, including East High Service Pump VFD Construction, South Industrial Tank Coating Design/Bid/Construction, Lime Sludge Lagoon Dredging Design and Northeast Pressure District Transient Modeling. Tetra Tech has demonstrated themselves to be experienced in a wide range of disciplines, responsive and cost effective in meeting those diverse needs on a variety of complex engineering tasks associated with the WTSU.
Additional professional engineering services are required to support the Water Treatment Services Unit (WTSU) with capital, operation, and maintenance projects at the Water Treatment Plant and associated facilities, dams, and hydroelectric generating stations and maintain the aggressive capital improvement proje...
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