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 STARK EXCAVATING, INC and Award a Construction CONTRACT from the Base Bid of $75,900.00 with an Additional Authorization in Contingency of $7,590.00 (10%) and $1,500.00 for DBE participation, for a Total Award Amount of $84,990.00, for the PROSPECT ROAD/HUMBOLDT AVENUE RETAINING WALL REPAIRS PROJECT. (Council District 3)
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BACKGROUND: Since 2009, the Prospect Humboldt retaining wall has been monitored periodically by a structural engineer, with the engineer recommending that repairs be made. This project will address the structural concerns with the retaining wall. It is more cost effective to make the repairs now than to wait for the wall to fail completely and require complete reconstruction. The major types of work for this project include wall modifications, miscellaneous drainage items, embankment, and riprap.
The Prospect Road/Humboldt Avenue Retaining Wall Project was advertised, and bids were opened on February 6, 2020 with two (2) bidders submitting. The bids received are as follows:
Contractor
Base Bid
MBE
Subcontractor %
WBE
Subcontractor %
Stark Excavating, Inc
$75,900.00
2%
0%
Illinois Civil Contractors, Inc.
$86,079.00
4.3%
5%
Goal
Goal
Engineer's Estimate
$61,311.00
10%
5%
This project has a limited scope, which means there are only a few opportunities to use subcontractors. Stark's bid included non-MBE/WBE subcontractors for saw cutting, layout and seeding which equated to 7.2% of the project cost. Public Works staff and the Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer reviewed the Good Faith Efforts documentation submitted by Stark Excavating Inc. and set up a meeting with Stark to discuss. Stark included with their bid a table of the subcontractors they contacted - see attached. The scopes of work the subcontractors Stark contacted were: ADS pipe supply, casting and supply, construction layout, erosion control,...
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