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Staff Report for a Resolution Appropriating $291,510.04 of Water Pollution Control Enterprise Funds and Approving an Increase in the Contract Change Order Cap from 25% to 40% ($278,577.50 to $445,724.00) for a Construction Contract with Con-Quest Contractors, Inc. for the Sanitary Sewer Line Replacement/Repair 2012-13 Project, Project No. 2013.0120
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends the appropriation of $291,510.04 of Water Pollution Control Enterprise Funds and approval of an increase in the change order cap from 25% to 40% (from $278,577.50 to $445,724.00, an increase of $167,146.50) of the original construction contract.
BACKGROUND
Sewer and storm facilities maintained by the City of San Leandro are routinely inspected. Locations that have deteriorated to the point where repairs are needed or may be needed in the near future and those that require a significant amount of maintenance by Public Works were included in the subject project.
The Sanitary Sewer Line Replacement/Repair 2012-13 Project was advertised on February 26, 2015, and the contract was awarded to Con-Quest Contractors, Inc. on April 20, 2015. Construction began in August 2015 and is still underway as of March 2016.
It is nearly impossible to produce a perfect set of project documents for which no changes need to be made during construction and it would be inefficient and costly to attempt to produce such a set of plans. This is especially true for underground projects involving sanitary sewer and storm drain facilities, since additional defects are regularly discovered during the completion of the work.
Various items have been required to be added to the project scope of work during the course of construction. One of these items has been the discovery of the need to repair a sanitary sewer main on Marina Boulevard just east of San Leandro Boulevard that was damaged with the installation of a communications conduit. This additional item...
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