DEPARTMENT: Transportation & Capital Improvements
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Mike Frisbie, P.E
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City Wide
SUBJECT:
Contract Award: On-Call Professional Landscape Architectural Consulting Services
SUMMARY:
An ordinance authorizing the execution of five On-Call Professional Landscape Architectural Consulting Services Agreements, with Bender Wells Clark Design, Dunaway Associates, L.P., MP Studio Landscape Architecture, LLC, Open Air Studios, LLC and Terra Design Group, Inc., each in the amount not to exceed $400,000.00 per year per firm, for a term of one year with the option to extend for one additional year, under the same terms and conditions, to provide as-needed professional landscape architectural consulting services for City-owned facilities and improvements, construction projects and planning projects located City-wide.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Project Background
Transportation & Capital Improvements (TCI) previously contracted with four consultants for On-Call Professional Landscape Architectural Consulting Services for the City. The consultants were Bender Wells Clark Design, Coltrane Fernandez Zavala Group CFZ, GarzaBury and Terra Design Group. These consultants are used on an as-needed basis on small projects and for the use of time-sensitive City projects in connection with City improvements and construction projects. The contracts for these four firms will expire in September 2017. With the exception of Bender Well Clark Design, four new firms are being proposed for City Council consideration and approval, with five firms in total recommended for to provide On-Call Professional Landscape Architectural Consulting Services.
City departments such as Aviation, Building and Equipment Services, Convention Center, and the San Antonio Public Library, upon TCI recognition of the requirement for services, will continue to utilize these services for planned construction projects on an immediate and/or as needed basis.
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