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PUBLIC WORKS / TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION - Executive Director Jim Simon and Deputy Director Jessica Riske-Gomez
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Requested Action(s)
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a) Request to adopt a finding that competitive bidding for the work described in Contract Change Order No. 25, 26, 28, 29, 32, 33, 47, 51, 56 through 79 for the Bus Maintenance and Administrative Facility Rehabilitation Project would be unavailing and impractical and would not produce any public advantage
b) Request authorization for Public Works Director to issue change orders Contract Change Order No. 25, 26, 28, 29, 32, 33, 47, 51, 56 through 79 in the amount of $250,243.53
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Financial Impact:
$3 million in total transit funding set aside for this project in a combination of State and Federal grant awards.
Background Information:
Since 2020, $3 million has been set aside for this project. The Board awarded the contract for the Bus Maintenance and Administrative Facility Rehabilitation Project to McCuen Construction Inc. of Loomis, CA as the lowest responsive bidder in the amount of $2,000,000.00 on March 28, 2023 (Miscellaneous Agreement #2023-40). At that time, the Director of Public Works was authorized $200,000 in signature authority for the issuance of Change Orders to the contract, pursuant to Public Contract Code 20137.
The additional contingencies budget was anticipated due to unknown building and site conditions at the facility and the lack of available as-built drawings. As-builts are used during the construction phase to continually track how the land and building is changing as work progresses during original construction. Dedicated as-built surveys make as-built drawings much easier to construct in the end, because of the greater level of detail recorded from every stage of the project. There were no existing records to support the rehabilitation project. Without a full history of project condition changes prior to County acquisition, managers were unable to identify what has b...
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