Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Contract with Birkhoff, Hendricks, & Carter, LLP to Provide Consulting Engineering Services for the WA1625 - University Pump Station - 920 PP Pump Project and Authorizing Any Supplemental Agreements
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Operational Excellence
MEETING DATE: January 16, 2018
DEPARTMENT: Development Services/Engineering
CONTACT: Nick Ataie, PE, Engineering CIP Manager
Paul Tucker, PE, Senior Utility Engineer
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
* Approval of Resolution.
ITEM SUMMARY:
* This Resolution authorizes the City Manager to execute a contract in the amount of $108,715 as well as all required supplemental agreements thereto, with Birkhoff, Hendricks, & Carter, LLP for professional consulting engineering services for the WA1625 - University Pump Station - 920 Pressure Plane (PP) Pump Project, for a total aggregate contract amount, inclusive of any supplemental agreements, not to exceed $120,000.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
* Per the 2012-2013 Water Master Plan, a new 920 Pressure Plane (PP) 15 Million Gallons per Day (MGD) pump is needed to provide additional pumping capacity for the growing City population and businesses.
* The Public Works Department has requested to add the new pump to assist in meeting the peak summer demands and to provide supplemental pumping redundancy due to the age of the existing pumps that serve the 920 PP.
* A new 15-MGD pump with an 800-HP motor will be installed in the vacant Pump Slot No. 7. The addition of the pump will require the design of the piping, valves and gauges from the existing pump base to the flanged plug at the pump station wall. The work will include the addition of a medium voltage Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) for proposed Pump No. 7 and the replacement of an existing medium voltage VFD for existing Pump No. 2 along with all the electrical connections and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) controls...
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