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Department of Finance - Division of Procurement & Contracts
Reference: Award of Single Source for Bridge and 1-76 Improvements to Bromley Lane Roundabout Design Services Project #90750
To: Mayor Richard N. McLean and Members of City Council
Through: Clint Blackhurst, Acting City Manager
Prepared By: Pam Roeding, Procurement & Contracts Manager
Through: Chontel Trujillo, Assistant City Manager Operations, Kimberly Dall, Streets and Fleet Interim Director
Cc: Dan Frelund, Finance Director
Date Prepared: February 13, 2017
PURPOSE
The Finance department is requesting City Council approval of Atkins America, Inc. as a Single Source supplier for the Bridge and 1-76 Improvements to Bromley Lane Roundabout Design Services.
Municipal Code Section 3-8-120 - Waiver permitted for bidding procedures, "For good cause shown, the City Manager may waive the formal bid procedure provided for herein for contracts greater than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00), and the City Council may waive the formal bid procedure for contracts greater than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00).
Municipal Code Section 3-8-10 defines a "Single Source Procurement" as "a contract for the procurement of material, supplies, equipment and /or services entered into after soliciting and negotiating only one source, necessitated usually because of the technology required or uniqueness of the material, supplies, equipment and/or service provided."
BACKGROUND/HISTORY
The current configuration consists of a single lane roundabout at the Bromley Lane and I-76 West Frontage Road located about 500 feet west of the westbound I-76 ramp junction intersection. Current traffic demand during the peak hour's results in long queues and delays for the eastbound Bromley Lane approach to the roundabout.
A solution to this bottleneck condition is to widen eastbound Bromley Lane starting at the roundabout and up to the westbound I-76 ramp junction i...
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