Title
Consider and take action on a resolution authorizing a construction contract with Mar-Con Services, LLC for the St. Christopher Avenue Reconstruction Project (RE1702D), in an amount not to exceed $2,117,098, and authorizing the expenditure of an additional $251,950 for a construction work change directive budget and construction material testing services budget (Director of Budget & Project Management)
Council postponed, 7-0-0 with 1 absent, on December 12, 2017.
Background:
Approval of this resolution will authorize the award of the construction contract to Mar-Con Services, LLC for the construction of the St. Christopher Avenue Reconstruction Project, and authorize funds for a construction work change directive budget and construction material testing budget.
The reconstruction of St. Christopher began as part of the FY2017 Street Reconstruction project. The Street Reconstruction project is part of the Reinvestment program and is intended to begin a formal program to systematically replace streets and drainage as they wear out and/or become functionally obsolete.
This project involves the reconstruction of St. Christopher Ave to a concrete curb and gutter roadway, approximately 2,200 linear feet in length, 28-foot wide and includes 6-foot sidewalk for the length of the street. Also included is 2,770 linear feet of new water lines and improvements including the regrading of the ditch along Abilene Street. Currently, St Christopher drains the Abilene-Bern-Boden neighborhoods and discharges under FM 270 with the Meadows neighborhood drainage. With the concrete reconstruction of the roadway, the Abilene-Bern-Boden drainage will be taken directly under FM270 which will take that volume of flow under FM270 shared by the Meadows neighborhood; thereby, benefitting all drainage impacted neighborhoods.
Sealed bids for the project were received November 14, 2017 (Bid No. 18-009). Mar-Con Services, LLC. submitted the lowest bid in the amount of $2,117,...
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