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Resolution to Approve Construction Contract Change Order No. 1 with E.T. MacKenzie Company RFP No. 19-04 ($54,731.67 Increase, with Total Contract Amount of $304,731.67)
Memorandum
Attached for your approval is a resolution authorizing a construction contract change order with E.T. MacKenzie Company in the amount of $54,731.67 to perform on-call construction services for a total contract value of $304,731.67.
At its regular meeting of May 6, 2019, Council approved a Construction Contract with E.T. MacKenzie Company (copy attached, R-19-206). The approved contract value is not to exceed $250,000.00 per year and was intended to perform emergency response work that exceeds the City's capabilities, such as complicated sewer or water main repairs and for small infrastructure improvement projects that fall below the threshold of Capital Improvement Plan needs.
The contract was advertised utilizing standard City procurement processes as outlined in RFP No. 19-04.
The City has project SN-20-04, the Trader Joe's Sanitary Sewer Repair Project, in its approved Capital Improvements Plan. The project was intended to repair a settled portion of existing sanitary sewer that is located under a large, cast-in-place, concrete retaining wall at the south edge of the Lamp Post Plaza Shopping Center. Attached, please find a vicinity sketch of the proposed sanitary sewer repair area. The section of pipe in question services several apartment buildings and properties in the Medford Road and Buckingham Court area. The project was originally planned to be designed in calendar year 2021 and constructed in calendar year 2022.
Upon commencement of the design activities in February, 2021, it was discovered that the portion of pipe to be repaired as part of the subject project, not only had a significant settlement that was holding water, but it also contained a significant longitudinal crack at the crown of the pipe and a portion of the pipe wall was displaced by about 1". This...
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