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Department of Utilities
Reference: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BRIGHTON, COLORADO, ACTING BY AND THROUGH ITS WATER ENTERPRISE, ACCEPTING THE PROPOSAL FROM RJH CONSULTANTS, INC., AWARDING THE CONTRACT FOR THE PROPOSAL FROM RJH CONSULTANTS, INC., AWARDING THE CONTRACT FOR THE SOUTH PLATTE RESERVOIRS' EMBANKMENT PROTECTION DESIGNS PROJECT #15-045 TO RJH CONSULTANTS, INC. IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED NINETY NINE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($99,500), AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO SIGN THE CONTRACT ON BEHALF OF THE CITY.
To: Mayor Richard N. McLean and Members of City Council
Through: Manuel Esquibel, City Manager
Prepared By: Finance Department/ Division Procurement Contracts and Risk Management
Utilities Engineering Division
Through: Curtis Bauers, Utilities Director
Chontel Trujillo, Assistant City Manager of Operations
Cc: Dan Frelund, Finance Director
Date Prepared: October 6, 2015
PURPOSE
Requesting City Council approval of a formal Request for Proposal for the South Platte Reservoirs' Embankment Protection Designs Project to the most responsive and responsible firm and approving the resolution giving the Mayor authority to sign the contract. Municipal Code Section 3.08.090, ". . . . All bids and proposals in excess of $50,000 shall be awarded through formal written procedures by the city council."
BACKGROUND
The City of Brighton owns three reservoirs known as Ken Mitchell Cell #1, Erger's Pond, and 124th Reservoir. The fourth reservoir, Cell #3, is already under contract for embankment protection design services. These reservoirs are used for storing augmentation water. This water, in a normal year, is used during the winter and replenished during spring runoff and through summer irrigation season.
Cell #1 is currently empty and is the largest of all of the city's reservoirs. There is roughly 12,000 linear feet of bank on Cell 1 and there is approximately 150 acres of water surface when full. Cell 1 is a slurr...
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