SUBJECT: Second Amendment Professional Engineering Services Contract between the City of Houston and Cobb, Fendley & Associates, Inc. for Negotiated Work Orders for Pre-Engineering of Storm Water Drainage Improvements. WBS No. M-000100-0015-3
Recommendation: (Summary) Approve a Second Amendment to the Professional Engineering Services Contract with Cobb, Fendley & Associates, Inc. to extend the Contract for an additional year.
PROJECT NOTICE/JUSTIFICATION: This contract is to perform pre-engineering of storm water drainage improvements. Developing specific detailed projects to address the identified highest needs will provide candidate projects with both costs and benefits defined for citywide comparison and ranking for implementation.
DESCRIPTION/SCOPE: This project is part of the Storm Drainage Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) and is required to provide professional engineering services to investigate, verify, and define storm water drainage problems, structural flooding, and storm sewer system capacity issues. The project will identify feasible, warranted, and cost effective solutions.
LOCATION: The project location and limits will be established by the work order.
PREVIOUS HISTORY AND SCOPE: The original Contract was approved by Council on May 1, 2013, under Ordinance No. 2013-0370. An amendment and subsequent appropriation was approved on April 29, 2015, under Ordinance No. 2015-0367. The scope of services consisted of the execution of pre-engineering services and preparation of an engineering report. The pre-engineering services is to develop specific detailed solutions to address highest need areas and to define the candidate projects with detailed scopes, cost estimates and benefits. Under this contract, the consultant has been performing pre-engineering services of highest need areas in FY13 to FY17 following the three step process (Define Problem, Develop and Prioritize Alternative Solutions, and Develop Candidate Projects).
SCOPE OF THIS SECOND AMENDMENT: This Second Amendment will add an additional year to the original Contract and the scope of services will remain unchanged. The Contract has a remaining budget of $231,651.04. The one year extension will allow the consultant to finish pending assignments and to perform pre-engineering services for upcoming highest need areas to develop FY18 and FY19 Candidate Projects.
MWBE INFORMATION: The MWBE goal for the project is set at 24%. The original contract amount and subsequent appropriations totals are $1,500,000.00. The consultant has been paid $1,085,136.00 (72.34%) to date. Of this amount $213,853.00 (19.7%) has been paid to M/WBE sub-consultants to date. The consultant anticipates to exceed the goal.
ESTIMATED FISCAL OPERATING IMPACT:
No significant Fiscal Operating impact is anticipated as a result of this project.
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Karun Sreerama, MBA, PhD, PE
Director
Department of Public Works and Engineering