Title
Discuss and consider action authorizing the City Manager to award a construction contract for the Surface Water Treatment Plant Emergency Generator Project to McDonald Municipal and Industrial in the amount of $7,629,469.
Summary
As has been noted on previous City Council items, the Surface Water Treatment Plant and Lake Pump Station currently do not have backup power supply in the event of an extended power failure as was experienced from February 15, 2021 to February 17, 2021. This creates a significant risk for the City’s Public Water System as the plant produces most of the water that is used within the City. Due to this risk and the need to make the City's water system more resilient in the event of an emergency, the City Council approved a professional services agreement with Gupta and Associates, Inc. on September 22, 2020 to design the emergency generator power system.
To expedite the Surface Water Treatment Plant Standby Generator project, it was determined that our best course of action would be to pre-select and pre-purchase the generator and related automatic transfer switches to transfer the Purchase Order to the General Contractor upon award of the Surface Water Treatment Plant Standby Generator Construction Contract. As the generator purchase was awarded at the September 28th regular City Council meeting, we continued to move forward with the construction contract to do the related site work necessary to hook the generator up to the rest of the Surface Water Treatment Plant. This construction contract will include the installation of various electrical duct banks that will terminate into a new electrical building within the facility and tie-in to the generator. This work will also require new transformers to be installed that bring the prime voltage from Oncor down to where we can serve the facility at both the 4160-volt and the 480-volt load centers. This design also considered the future expansion of the Surface Water Treatment ...
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