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Engineering services contract with Alliance Geotechnical, Team Consultant and Reed Engineering to provide engineering geotechnical and material testing services for a maximum contract amount of $150,000 for each firm
Presenter
Romin Khavari, City Engineer
Recommended Action
Approve
Analysis
With the approval of the proposed geotechnical and material testing services fee ordinance, developers in Grand Prairie will be required to deposit the geotechnical and material testing fees prior to have a third party engineering consultant working for the City perform this work. On City capital improvement projects, the City will incur the cost to have this work performed also by these firms as part of the project.
Staff recommended that this work be performed by three consulting firms. Specific work assignment for the consultants will be at the City’s discretion and to be based upon size of project, complexity of project, firm’s familiarity with the area, workload, conflict of interest, and past performance.
The selection of the three engineering consulting firms was through the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) process. Request for qualifications were sent to sixteen (16) engineering geotechnical and material testing consulting firms with responses received from eleven (11) firms. Five (5) firms were selected for shortlist interviews. Based on qualifications and laboratory facilities, the three firms recommended are Alliance Geotechnical, Team Consultants and Reed Engineering respectively.
Financial Consideration
Staff is recommending that the firms of Alliance Geotechnical, Team Consultants and Reed Engineering continue to provide geotechnical and material testing services. The maximum amount of the contract is $150,000 for each firm for a term to expire on July 31, 2015. Based on the volume of work the contract amount may be adjusted and extended annually for a one year term up to four additional years.
Funding for this contract in ...
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