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Consider a resolution authorizing the Mayor to execute Quantity Adjustment/Change Order No. 4 with Cash Construction Company, Inc. for the Northeast Downtown Infrastructure Improvements Project.
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The Northeast Downtown Infrastructure Improvements project involves the installation of new water and wastewater lines, installation of a new stormwater system, construction of an underground dry utility duct bank, and construction of right-of-way (ROW) improvements needed in the northeast downtown area. The project area includes two blocks of East Austin Avenue and East Liberty Street between Mays Street and Sheppard Street. The project also includes Lampasas Street and Sheppard Street between East Liberty Street and East Austin Avenue.
On September 23, 2020, the department received six bids for this project, and awarded the contract on October 22, 2020 to Cash Construction, Inc. for $7,823,780.
Change Order (CO) No. 1 was for removal and disposal of asbestos concrete water lines along Sheppard Street. CO No. 1 was in the amount of $28,489.20 which increased the contract price to $7,852,269.20.
CO No. 2 was for equipment and labor to install City fiber conduit underground and provide fiber to the new Library site. CO No. 2 was in the amount of $135,567.50 which increased the contract price to $7,987,836.70.
CO No.3 was for replacement of an existing 6-inch wastewater line with an 8-inch High-Density Polyethylene wastewater line by pipe bursting along Milam Street and in the alley south of Liberty Street between Mays Street and Lampasas Street. This CO also includes the replacement of an existing 2-inch waterline with a 6-inch waterline in the same alley south of Liberty Street. CO No. 3 is in the amount of $227,692.50 which will increase the contract price to $8,215,529.20.
Change Order/Quantity Adjustment (CO/QA) No. 4 is for the construction of a concrete headwall at end of the newly constructed stormwater line that outfalls into Brushy Creek in the amount of $169,100 and for bid item adjustments of additional water and wastewater line installation in project area in the amount of $162,406.25. CO/QA No. 4 is in the amount of $331,406.25 which will increase the contract price to $8,546,935.45.
Cost: $331,406.25
Source of Funds: Self-Financed Stormwater Construction, Self-Financed Water Construction, Self-Financed Wastewater Construction and RR Transportation and Economic Development Corporation (Type B).