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Transportation Department recommending Chairman be authorized to sign Notice of Acceptance with Correa Construction for the Sawmill 1B Bike Path Project (JN 95148).
FUNDING: This Project was funded by the California Tahoe Conservancy (CTC) and Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) Air Quality Mitigation Funds, no fiscal impact.
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Reason for Recommendation:
The Contract for the Sawmill 1B Bike Path Project (Project) was executed by the Board on July 22, 2008. The Project was completed on August 15, 2009.
After conferring with and receiving concurrence from County Counsel, the Transportation Department (Department) made the following modifications to the form previously titled Notice of Completion:
1) The title of the form has been changed from Notice of Completion to Notice of Acceptance.
2) The Contractor's signature block has been eliminated.
3) References to "substantial completion" have been replaced with "completion."
4) References to Attachment "A" have been eliminated. Attachment "A" had been used in the past to list work that the Contractor still needed to complete.
County Counsel and the Department have agreed to make the changes listed above to improve the forms' compliance with the California Civil Code and the Department's contract documents.
Recordation of the Notice of Acceptance above will start legal and contractual time frames for guarantees and the stop notice filing period, among other things. The estimated total cost of this Project is listed below:
Original Bid Price $1,373,677.00
Estimated Construction Contract Item Cost $1,394,868.00
Estimated Contract Change Orders $ 58,314.00
Estimated Liquidated Damages ($ 257,870.00)
Estimated Final Cost of Construction Contract $1,195,312.00
Major contract change orders on this Project dealt with installing an alternate crash cushion system, additional visqueen and BMPs for winterization, placing a turbidity curtain in the Upper Truckee River, extra excavation at t...
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