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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: Ian Wade, Capital Projects Manager
DATE: March 24, 2025
SUBJECT:
A resolution authorizing the Director of Purchasing to execute change orders to the contracts with Electric Conduit Construction (ECC) and Platt Electric in the combined amount of $150,000 for the relocation of existing electrical infrastructure from vaults located under the sidewalk along Broadway from Benton Street to New York Street.
PURPOSE:
To increase the contract amounts to allow ECC and Platt to complete the remaining electrical infrastructure relocation work from vaults located under the sidewalk along Broadway from Benton to New York.
BACKGROUND:
As part of the upcoming Broadway Streetscape/Reconstruction project, the City has begun infilling thirty six under-sidewalk utility vaults along the three blocks of Broadway from Benton to New York. Before many of these vaults can be infilled, all existing electrical service equipment that is currently located within the vaults must be relocated to the adjacent basement of the respective buildings.
The City solicited bids from contractors for this relocation work in December 2023 but received no bids in response to the published request. Following this failed attempt to award this relocation work to one contractor, the City elected to conduct a site visit with three contractors (Aurora Wire and Fixutre (AWF), ECC, and Platt Electric) that had expressed interest in the project. Due to the facts that the pricing received from all three contractors was reasonably similar (all within 15% of each other) and the City needed to get this work completed in a timely manner to not impede the overall progress of the Broadway project, the work was divided evenly among the three contractors via Resolution passed by City Council on April 9, 2024. Since the precise scope of work required within each vault was not yet determined by ComEd at the time of that Resolution, the three initial Purchase Orders were opened fo...
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