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File #: 15-5857    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Consent Item Status: Approved
File created: 6/19/2017 In control: City Council Business Meeting
On agenda: 7/24/2017 Final action: 7/24/2017
Title: Prosperity Village Intelligent Transportation System Project
Title
Prosperity Village Intelligent Transportation System Project

Action
Action:
Award a contract in the amount of $229,054.99 to the lowest responsive bidder Whiting Construction Company, Inc. for the Prosperity Village Intelligent Transportation System project.

Body
Staff Resource(s):
Danny Pleasant, Transportation
Angela Berry, Transportation

Explanation
* Intelligent Transportation System projects are part of the implementation of the Intelligent Transportation System Master Plan described in the Transportation Action Plan.
* The City continues to install fiber optic cable to support its growing communications system with over 360 miles of fiber optic cable connecting over 620 traffic signals.
* Fiber optic cabling, traffic signal interconnection, and video traffic management cameras provide the ability to remotely adjust traffic signals in response to traffic flow and emergency conditions.
* These projects are important links in completing the next phase of the communications infrastructure.
* This project will install fiber optic cable in the Prosperity Village area to connect the signals to the north of I-485 along Prosperity Church Road to the signals south of I-485. This project will use conduit installed by NCDOT under the I-485 project and install new conduit for the fiber optic cable to connect to signalized intersections.
* On May 23, 2017, the City issued an Invitation to Bid for Prosperity Village Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Project; two bids were received from interested service providers.
* Whiting Construction Company, Inc. was selected as the lowest responsive, responsible bidder.
* The project is anticipated to be complete by winter 2018.

Charlotte Business INClusion
Informal contracts are not subject to establishing subcontracting goals and are considered exempt contracts (Part A: Appendix Section 23.1 of the CBI Policy), however, Whiting Construction Company, Inc. has committed 7% with M. H. Graves, an SBE, for vari...

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