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Resolution to Approve a Professional Service Agreement with DLZ Michigan, Inc. ($208,510.42) and Establish a Project Budget for the 2022/2023 Bridge Inspection Program ($248,000.00)
Memorandum
Attached for your review and approval, please find a resolution to approve a professional services agreement with DLZ Michigan, Inc. (DLZ) in the amount of $208,510.42 for the completion of the 2022/2023 Bridge Inspection Program. This resolution also establishes the project budget of $248,000.00 for this work.
This project includes the inspection and evaluation of thirteen City vehicular bridges on public roadways, the Fifth Avenue Parking Structure (the portion under South Fifth Avenue that is considered a bridge), and the University of Michigan's tunnel under Huron Parkway that is classified as a vehicular bridge. These inspections will occur over the course of the next two years.
The City is required by federal regulations (National Bridge Inspection Standards, sub-part ?650.303) to inspect our vehicular bridges on, or over, public roadways every two years and submit updated inspection forms to the Michigan Department of Transportation. About one-half of the City's bridges are inspected each year in order to normalize costs as much as possible.
The project also includes the inspection, evaluation, and load rating of sixteen bridges controlled by the Community Services Area - Parks Division. These bridges are more precisely described within the professional services agreement to be approved. The estimated cost of this portion of the work is about $56,834.74. The Parks Bridges inspection is being performed at this time as these structures are deemed necessary to re-inspect to ensure their continued use is allowable and safe.
A professional engineering firm with expertise in bridge inspection work is required to be retained as the City does not have staff with the required certifications and structural engineering expertise to inspect the bridge structure...
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