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 various fiber assembly work.
Fiscal Note
Funding: General Transportation Community Investment Plan