Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: James C. Porter, Director of Public Works
Subject: Amendment to the Agreements with Denise Duffy & Associates, Inc. and Biological Monitoring and Assessment Specialists, Inc.
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing:
A) An amendment to the agreement with Denise Duffy & Associates, Inc. for on-call engineering and professional services to provide environmental permitting assistance and other as-needed services and extending the term of the agreement from November 16, 2018 to November 16, 2020; and
B) An amendment to the agreement with Biological Monitoring and Assessment Specialists, Inc. for on-call engineering and professional services to provide as-need biological monitoring services, extending the term of the agreement from November 16, 2018 to November 16, 2020, and increasing the amount by $200,000 to an amount not to exceed $600,000.
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BACKGROUND:
On November 17, 2015, your Board adopted Resolution No. 074205, which authorized agreements with consulting firms for On-Call Engineering and Professional Services for various not-to-exceed amounts ranging from $300,000 to $500,000 and for a period of three years through November 16, 2018.
DISCUSSION:
Denise Duffy & Associates, Inc. (DDA) has been providing environmental permitting services to the Department under the 2015 On-Call Engineering and Professional Services Agreement. The work authorized by the Department to date has been for amounts less than the not-to-exceed amount of the Agreement.
The environmental permitting services provided by DDA pursuant to the existing Agreement has been for work associated with proposed bank stabilization efforts on Mirada Road adjacent to the existing pedestrian bridge over Arroyo de en Medio Creek. Due to the rapidly deteriorating conditions of the existing Mirada Road pedestrian bridge and the needed replacement of the bridge, the De...
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