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Resolution to Approve a Professional Services Agreement with Baker and Associates for Inspection Services ($124,178.47) (RFP No. 24-35) and Establish a Project Budget for the 2024-2025 Bridge Inspection Program ($175,000.00)
Memorandum
Attached for your review and consideration is a resolution to approve a Professional Services Agreement (PSA) with Baker Associates for $124,178.47 for the annual bridge inspections as part of the 2024 - 2025 Bridge Inspection Program.
This project includes the inspection and evaluation of eighteen 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 are 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 twenty bridges controlled by the Community Services Area - Parks Division. These bridges are more precisely described within the attached professional services agreement. The inspection of Parks bridges 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 structures. Also, specialized inspection equipment, traffic control devices, and significant planning and effort are req...
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