Title
Approving action to authorize the City Manager to execute a Deductive Change Order in an amount no less than $187,315.67 or greater than $271,869.92 and deduct 10 days for the FM 1825 (Pecan Street) and FM 685 (Dessau Road) Displaced Left Turn Intersection Project, to Capital Excavation.
Summary
Due to the cost variations staff is requesting to be allowed to move forward with three (3) bid items (105-6041, 132-6003 and 540-6002) using a force account method and all other items authorized as presented. This proposal has been approved by the contractor. Force Account as defined in the contract provisions, allows payment for work performed on cost and material basis.
City Council awarded the construction contract to Capital Excavation Co. on March 9th and due to administrative processing and coordination requirements City issued the Notice to Proceed (NTP) on April 19th as agreed for construction start. Once the project kicked off, multiple Request For Information (RFIs) were submitted by the contractor, that would impact construction progress. In lieu of processing these RFIs individually, it was determined by both the City and Design Engineer many of the proposed responses to the RFIs would require TxDOT approval. All items were coordinated with TxDOT for several proposed work scope changes, due to a variety of reasons, and presented to the contractor for a proposal to perform anticipated revised work scope.
Staff submits request for Council consideration, approval of the deduct change order in compliance to the Texas Local Government Code Chapter 252.
Texas Local Government Code Chapter 252 Section 252.048(c) states that:
“if a change order involves a decrease or an increase of $50,000 or less, the governing body may grant general authority to an administrative official of the municipality to approve the change orders”.
In addition, with acceptance of the United States Federal Economic Development Administration (EDA) Grant, the City is require...
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