SUBJECT: An ordinance to approve Amendment 1 to the existing Grant Agreement between City of Houston and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for the Houston Intelligent Transportation System (HITS) project.
PREVIOUS HISTORY: On June 29th, 2016, the City of Houston approved an Ordinance to execute a Grant Agreement (Ord. No. 2016-0534) with FHWA for the Houston Intelligence Transportation System (HITS) project. This project deploys Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) devices along multiple arterial roadways to provide real-time traveler information (including travel times and incidents), reduce travel delay, and provide traffic signal maintenance and engineering staff to better manage vehicular traffic.
Since execution of the grant agreement, the City of Houston has negotiated a contract (with Transcore ITS, LLC) to perform the work of the project. This contract was approved by City Council on 6/21/2017 (Ord. No. 2017-0460).
DESCRIPTION/SCOPE:
Various changes to the Grant Agreement include:
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Date modifications;
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Modification of the total value of the agreement;
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The addition of Transcore ITS, LLC as the City’s contractor.
FHWA requires approval of Amendment 1 of the Grant Agreement to continue with deployment of this project. A copy of Amendment 1 is attached.
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Carol Ellinger Haddock, PE
Acting Director
Department of Public Works and Engineering