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Approving a Professional Services Supplemental Agreement with Ardurra Group, Inc. in the amount of $3,277,458 for professional engineering services associated with the Water Treatment Plant Facility Expansion Project construction and post-construction phase services, and authorizing the City Manager to execute the same.
Summary
City Staff presents this Agenda item in advance of the award of Construction Contract, for Ardurra the Engineer of Record, to provide Construction and Post Construction engineering services.
To comply with the goals included in the City’s Strategic Plan for Infrastructure, such as resilient and operational infrastructure that it is designed to grow and to comply with the City’s Water Master Plan; the following Supplemental Agreement is necessary to continue with the project Design Engineer services. This Supplemental Agreement is for Construction and Post Construction phase engineering services by Ardurra Group, Inc. the Engineer of Record (EOR) for the Surface Water Treatment Plant Expansion Project.
Ardurra will collaborate with the Owner’s Representative and Contractor to ensure improvements meet or exceeds State, Federal and City standards and regulations.
The Surface Water Treatment Plant currently provides 17.7 million gallons per day (MGD) and to maintain adequate capacity for the future population growth, the Water Master Plan recommended that the City expand the SWTP in four phases over the next 30 years. Each expansion will allow the City six to seven years of operation before the next expansion is required. The first expansion, and the basis of this project, is slated to take place this year 2022 to expand the plant 30 MGD. The second expansion is to take place in 2028 to 45 MGD. The third expansion phase is to take place in 2034 to 60 MGD, and the final expansion is to occur in 2041 taking the plant capacity up to 75 MGD.
Ardurra as the Design Engineer or Engineer of Record (EOR) has a critical role throughout the c...
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