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Community Development Services, Department of Transportation, recommending the Board retroactively approve and authorize the Chair to execute Contract Change Order 2.1 with Trinity River Construction, Inc., in the amount of $69,800.00 for the Starkes Grade Road Slipout Project, CIP 78715, PW 17-31204, Contract 2354; and make the following finding to waive the competitive bidding process for the change order: the nature of the subject of the contract is such that competitive proposals would be unavailing or would not produce an advantage, and the advertisement for competitive bid would thus be undesirable, impractical, or impossible.
FUNDING: Local and State discretionary Road funding initially (100%), with Transportation staff working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and California Office of Emergency Services to obtain reimbursement of up to 93.75% of total project costs.
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DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION
Community Development Services, Department of Transportation (Transportation), recommending the Board retroactively approve and authorize the Chair to execute Contract Change Order (CCO) 2.1 with Trinity River Construction, Inc. (Trinity), in the amount of $69,800.00 for the Starkes Grade Road Slipout Project (Project), CIP 78715, PW 17-31204, Contract 2354; and make the following finding to waive the competitive bidding process for the change order: the nature of the subject of the contract is such that competitive proposals would be unavailing or would not produce an advantage, and the advertisement for competitive bid would thus be undesirable, impractical, or impossible.
DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The Board authorized Transportation to advertise this Project for bids on September 12, 2017 (agenda item 13). Transportation opened bids on January 4, 2018, and the Board awarded the Project to Trinity on January 23, 2018 (agenda item 21).
Construction started on March 26, 2018. Soon after excavation was started on the Project, two significa...
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