DEPARTMENT: Transportation & Capital Improvements
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Mike Frisbie, P.E.
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Council District 4
SUBJECT:
Contract Award: (Job-Order Contract) Brush Recycling Center Improvements Project
SUMMARY:
An ordinance for the Brush Recycling Center Improvements Project, authorizing a task order to a Job Order Contract with Jamail & Smith Construction, in the amount not to exceed $218,249.04, a FY 2016 Solid Waste Operating and Maintenance Fund project, and appropriating an additional $118,499.04 from the FY 2016 Solid Waste Operating and Maintenance Fund, located in Council District 4.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Project Background
The Solid Waste Management Department opened the Nelson Gardens Brush Recycling facility at 8963 Nelson Gardens Road in March 2012. Improvements consisted of a scale house, truck scales, perimeter road, and a brush and mulch storage area. In 2015, a new modular crew quarters building was relocated from the Northwest Service Center to the Nelson Gardens Brush facility. The building was required to accommodate an increase in staff working at the Nelson Gardens facility. A total of 16 employees now utilize the new crew building and scale house, which currently is serviced by well water.
Well water is used for restroom facilities (sink/toilet) at the scale house and new crew quarters, irrigation system and the water truck fill station. The current water system does not have sufficient storage capacity to meet all of the facility's needs.
Improvements to the existing water system will provide capacity to store domestic water and include a 5,000 gallon storage tank, 1,000 gallon pressure tank, chlorination system, pumps and associated controls. Project construction is anticipated to begin in July 2016 and estimated to be completed by October 2016.
Procurement of Services
This Project was selected to utilize Job Order Contracting (JOC), an alternative Project del...
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