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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: Ian Wade, Capital Projects Manager
DATE: March 27, 2023
SUBJECT:
A resolution authorizing the Director of Purchasing to increase the Purchase Order for RC Wegman Construction Company, 750 Morton Avenue, Aurora, IL, 60506 in the amount of $17,714,867.00 for fourteen individually bid construction trade packages as part of the Public Works Combined Maintenance Facility Project.
PURPOSE:
To obtain approval to increase the construction Purchase Order for the Public Works Combined Maintenance Facility Project at an initial total value of $17,714,867.00 for fourteen individually bid construction trade packages.
BACKGROUND:
On September 27, 2022, City staff utilized a Qualifications-Based Selection to award RC Wegman Construction Company a contract to provide Construction Manager "as Constructor" (CMc) services for the new Public Works Combined Maintenance Facility via R22-276.
Following the completion of the Structural and Architectural design of the main building, RC Wegman published the first bid package (BP1). BP1 included structural steel and precast concrete in the amount of $8,274,777 and was awarded on December 13, 2022 via R22-366.
The second bid package (BP2), which is the subject of this Resolution, included fifteen additional, separate trade packages. The timing and scope of BP2 was based on the current construction schedule and material lead times. These trades, combined with BP1, make up ~95% of the main building with only select interior components which will not be required until 2024 remaining for inclusion in BP3 to be published later this year.
BP2 also includes pricing for the respective components on the recently proposed 2,700 square foot Brine Building, which will be located onsite near the salt storage dome.
DISCUSSION:
Requests for bid on each of the trade packages included in BP2 were published by RC Wegman and a total of 74 eligible bids were received for fourteen trade packages on February 15,...
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