Title
Charlotte Water Miscellaneous Engineering Services
Action
Action:
Approve contracts with the following companies for engineering services for a term of three years:
* Black & Veatch International Company,
* CDM Smith, Inc.,
* HDR Engineering, Inc. of the Carolinas,
* Hazen and Sawyer,
* Brown and Caldwell,
* Stantec Consulting Services Inc.,
* Willis Engineers, Inc., an SBE, and
* WK Dickson & Co., Inc.
Body
Staff Resource(s):
Barry Gullet, Charlotte Water
Ron Hargrove, Charlotte Water
Carl Wilson, Charlotte Water
Explanation
* Charlotte Water staff requires specialized technical assistance from outside engineering firms to support maintenance and upgrades at water and wastewater treatment plants as well as the collection and distribution systems.
* These on-call professional services contracts are for engineering services such as:
* Planning, design, and construction management for water and wastewater treatment plant and pipeline projects,
* Structural analysis,
* Regulatory process control, and
* Hydraulic modeling.
* On April 11, 2017, the City issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ); 13 proposals were received from interested service providers.
* The above firms were determined to be the best qualified firms to meet the City's needs on the basis of demonstrated competence and qualification of professional services in response to the RFQ requirements.
* Total contract expenditures for all of the contracts are estimated to be $3,350,000 annually.
* Approximately $2 million of these expenditures are expected to be utilized for planning, design and construction management on approximately $40 million of water and wastewater treatment plant rehabilitation projects identified in the Community Investment Plan (CIP) over the next three years.
* The remaining $1.35 million are for engineering services such as structural analysis, regulatory process control, hydraulic modeling, preliminary engineering reports, cost estimates, studies, evaluatio...
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