File #: 15-424    Name: FM 546 Utility Relocations Design Contract
Type: Resolution Status: Approved
In control: City Council Regular Meeting
On agenda: 5/5/2015 Final action: 5/5/2015
Title: Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Authorizing the Interim City Manager to Execute a Contract and any Supplemental Agreements for Engineering Services for WA4409 - FM 546 Water Line Relocations and WW4410 - FM 546 Wastewater Line Relocations Projects
Attachments: 1. Resolution, 2. Location Map
Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Authorizing the Interim City Manager to Execute a Contract and any Supplemental Agreements for Engineering Services for WA4409 - FM 546 Water Line Relocations and WW4410 - FM 546 Wastewater Line Relocations Projects

Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Direction for Strategic Growth

MEETING DATE: May 5, 2015

DEPARTMENT: Development Services/Engineering

CONTACT: Paul Tucker, PE, Senior Utility Engineer
Gary Graham, PE, PTOE, CIP and Traffic Manager

RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
* Approval of the Resolution.

ITEM SUMMARY:
* This Resolution authorizes the Interim City Manager to execute a contract in the amount of $74,915, as well as all required supplemental agreements thereto, with Grantham & Associates, Inc. to provide professional engineering services for the FM 546 Water and Wastewater Relocations Projects, for a total aggregate contract amount, inclusive of any supplemental agreements, not to exceed $85,000.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
* The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is in the process of design and right-of-way acquisition for the upcoming construction of the new section of FM 546 along a new alignment from SH 5 to Airport Drive in southeast McKinney.
* The FM 546 Utility Relocation project is to relocate and encase existing water and sanitary sewer lines to clear the proposed roadway facilities needed by TxDOT.
* There are four identified utility conflicts that are included in the basic design services fee. The four identified utility conflicts include three water lines that range in size from 8 inch to 12 inch and one 8 inch sanitary sewer line.
* There are three potential utility conflicts that are included in the special services fee. The three potential utility conflicts include a 16 inch water line, and a 10 inch and 24 inch sanitary sewer lines. Field survey is needed to obtain the water and sanitary sewer field information to correlate it to the TxDOT roadway and dr...

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