RECOMMENDATION: The General Services Department recommends approval of the final contract amount of $860,805.00 and acceptance of work on the contract with Landscape Art, Inc. for Walter Rasmus Park – 3.84% over the original contract amount and under the 10% contingency.
SPECIFIC EXPLANATION: The General Services Department recommends that City Council approve the final contract amount of $860,805.00, accept the work and authorize final payment to Landscape Art, Inc. for construction services in connection with Walter Rasmus Park, for the Houston Parks and Recreation Department.
PROJECT LOCATION: 3721 Jeanetta Street, Houston TX 77063
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The project scope replaced the existing playground and equipment, provided sitework including grading, storm water detention, parking lot improvements, new walking trail and sidewalks and installed new benches, picnic tables, fencing, landscaping and irrigation.
M2L Associates Inc. was the design consultant for the project.
CONTRACT COMPLETION AND COST: The contractor completed the project within 250 days: the original contract time of 180 days, plus 70 days approved by Change Orders. The final cost of the project including Change Orders is $860,805.00, an increase of $31,820.00 over the original contract amount.
PREVIOUS CHANGE ORDERS: Change Orders No. 1-6: replaced a non-ADA compliant picnic table pad, re-routed irrigation mainline, added playground fall surface, installed additional drain line, catch basin and sod, cleaned out an existing storm drain in the parking lot, added a new drainage swale, replaced a section of sidewalk and installed new channel drain to improve drainage to an existing storm drain, re-routed electrical lines in conflict with the planned bios wale; realigned a section of sidewalk and curbs to correct drainage and slope, substituted a battery powered irrigation controller for a hard-wired model, installed a new pedestrian grate over an existing stormwater inlet, provided a root aeration treatment for an existing tree located in the playground area, repaired the backflow preventer; added contract days due to inclement weather.
M/WBE PARTICIPATION: No City MWBE participation goal was established for this project as the contract amount does not exceed the threshold of $1,000,000.00 required for goal-oriented contracts per section 15-82 of the City Code of Ordinances.
WBS No: F-COJ003-0001-4
DIRECTOR’S SIGNATURE/DATE:
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C. J. Messiah, Jr.
General Services Department
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Kenneth Allen
Interim Director
Houston Parks and Recreation Department