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AMENDMENT NO. TWO TO CONTRACT K-1415-78: BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, AND MACARTHUR ASSOCIATED CONSULTANTS, L.L.C., INCREASING THE CONTRACT AMOUNT BY $13,000 FOR A REVISED CONTRACT AMOUNT OF $162,500 REVISING THE SCOPE OF WORK FOR IOWA STREET IN THE DAKOTA/IOWA STREET IMPROVEMENT PROJECT FROM BERRY ROAD TO UNIVERSITY BOULEVARD.
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BACKGROUND: In the Norman General Obligation Bond Election of March 2, 2010, voters approved a 5-year, 4-phase program of Street Maintenance on neighborhood streets. The four phases include (1) Urban Asphalt Streets, (2) Urban Concrete Streets, (3) Rural Roads and (4) Road Reconstruction. The final two projects in the "Road Reconstruction" category required outside engineering design services due to the complexity of the stormwater improvements. Those two projects involved eleven (11) residential blocks of total road reconstruction on Dakota Street and Iowa Street, as illustrated on the attached Iowa & Dakota Street Location Map.
On March 10, 2015, City Council approved Contract K-1415-78 with MacArthur Associated Consultants, L.L.C. for the design of the Dakota and Iowa Street Improvement Projects between Berry Road and University Boulevard for $132,500. The Dakota and Iowa Street Improvement Projects involve the reconstruction of the existing two-lane roadway on a new profile with curb and gutter along with a new stormwater collection system.
On March 31, 2016, a bid opening was held for these projects and only one bid was received. The Engineer's Estimate was $3,053,824. A-Tech Paving submitted the sole bid of $3,201,241, which was $147,417 over the estimate. City staff determined that other contractors did not bid on this project because the schedule was too aggressive. Since the only bid that was submitted was over the Engineer's Estimate, City staff recommended the bid be rejected and the project be rebid. City Staff also recommended splitting the project into three separate phases to make the...
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