ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager and Director of Public Works with a Request to Accept the LOW BID of ILLINOIS CIVIL CONTRACTORS, INC. and Award a Construction CONTRACT, in an Amount Not to Exceed $150,000.00, from the Base Bid of $72,802.00 for the CONCRETE REPAIRS CONTRACT - 2019. (All Council Districts)
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BACKGROUND: Public Works has received requests for various concrete repairs throughout the City. In-house staff has reviewed these requests and estimated construction costs for each site. Repairs include improvements to pedestrian facilities, and traffic calming projects. The repairs will be designed "in the field" and paid based on the time and materials bid. This is an opportunity for the Public Works Engineering Division to limit design costs and be more responsive to the needs of our citizens.
A map is attached to this communication outlining several known sites. Several sites were selected based on pedestrian safety concerns.
Public Works prepared the contract specifications, and bids were received on September 10, 2019 with two bids received, as follows:
Contractor Total Bid
Illinois Civil Contractors, Inc. $72,802.00
C&G Concrete $81,785.00
Engineer's base estimate: $75,000.00
The base bid represented quantities we would expect to see on three small projects and covers typical pay items we expect to see throughout the contract. Since the time of our advertisement for this project, several other request have come in to Public Works. In order to address those requests, staff recommends increasing this project to $150,000.00.
Illinois Civil Contractors, Inc. is a local business that has successfully performed work for the City in the past. Most comparably to this project, they performed the City's 2018 Sidewalk Participation Program. They achieved 24.71% hours performed by Minority workers and 8.23% of hours performed by Female workers, per eprismsoft.com.
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