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<br />Bid Summary <br /> <br />Construction <br />Estimate <br /> <br /> <br />Engineer's <br />Estimate <br /> <br />Gateway <br />Pacific <br />Contractors <br /> <br />Construction Bid <br /> <br />$3,942,206 <br /> <br />$4,355,000 <br /> <br />$5,572,770 <br /> <br />Construction Management, Specialty Inspection and Soils Engineering/Testing <br /> <br />The City commonly enters into a construction management contract to provide technical shop <br />drawing review, specialty inspection services, quality control and often geotechnical (soils) <br />engineering and testing during construction of the City's utility pump stations, reservoirs, and <br />other types of large utility facilities where the City does not have staff specializing in these <br />areas. This partially buried, pre-stressed concrete reservoir project is the type of project that <br />staff believes requires and would benefit from specialty construction management expertise. <br /> <br />Earlier this year, the City solicited proposals from six different construction management <br />fI1?lls to provide the construction management for the Santos Ranch Road Pump Stations and <br />Water Facilities Upgrade Project. Two fums responded that they would be unable to provide <br />the necessary services for the project due to their current workload, and two of the other finns <br />indicated that they did not believe they could be competitive in providing a proposal if the finn <br />that designed the pump stations was also included on the construction management selection <br />list. Of the two finns that did submit proposals, the City chose Tetra Tech, Inc. (the designer <br />of the pump stations) to provide these services to the City based upon their construction <br />management expertise and ultimate negotiated bid. Tetra Tech's construction management <br />team of professionals has been on this pump station reconstruction project for approximately <br />four months and to-date, has provided excellent construction management services for the City <br />on this project. <br /> <br />Based upon this recent construction management experience and the current high level of <br />bidding and construction work in the Bay Area, City staff requested Tetra Tech to submit a <br />proposal to provide construction management and specialty inspection services for the <br />construction phase of the water reservoir project as an amendment to their construction <br />management contract. <br /> <br />Staff has reviewed the rate schedule and professional employee hours that have been proposed <br />by Tetra Tech Inc. and found the finn's rates to be competitive with other construction <br />management finns doing similar work for the City. Based on a number of factors, including <br />Tetra Tech's qualifications, the fact that they are currently providing excellent construction <br />management services for the City, that the same construction management "team" would be <br /> <br />SR 06:152 <br />Page 6 of 13 <br />