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City Council Staff Report
April 22, 2014
Agenda Item No. 7
TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: David A. Webb, Public Works Director- (949) 644 -3330, dawebb @newportbeach.gov
PREPARED BY: Peter Tauscher, Associate Civil Engineer
PHONE: (949) 644 -3316
TITLE: Storm Drain Rehabilitation Project— Reject All Bids for Contract No. 5284 (CAP13-
0009)
ABSTRACT:
Staff has now received three bids for the Storm Drain Rehabilitation Project, all bids being
unexpectly higher them the project cost estimate. Staff believes the best course of action is to
reject all bids, re -scope the project and re- advertise the project.
RECOMMENDATION:
a) Reject all bids received on March 27, 2014, for Contract No. 5284; and
b) Direct staff to redefine the contract scope of work and re- advertise the project for bids.
FUNDING REQUIREMENTS:
No Fiscal Impact.
DISCUSSION:
At 1:30 p.m. on March 27, 2014 the City Clerk opened and read the following bids for this
project:
BIDDER TOTAL BID AMOUNT
Low Insituform Technologies, LLC. $1,050,410.50
2 Sancon Technologies, Inc. $1,141,990.00
3 Southwest Pipeline & Trenchless Corp. $1,226,700.00
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The low bidder's total bid amount is 44 percent above the Engineer's Estimate of $730,000.00.
All three bidding contractors specialize in re- lining existing pipes in place. After a review of the
bids, it was apparent that the unit prices for these items seem comparable with the Engineer's
Estimate. However, the additional non - lining work that was included in the contract which the
specialty bidders might not be familiar with caused the bid amounts to become
unproportionate.
With the City Council's approval, staff intends to limit the project scope to specialty lining
work and complete the other work under a separate contract with related bid items.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW:
Staff recommends the City Council find this project exempt from the California Environmental
Quality Act ( "CEQA ") pursuant to Section 15302 (replacement of existing facilities involving
negligible expansion of capacity) of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title
14, Chapter 3, because it has no potential to have a significant effect on the environment.
NOTICING:
The agenda item has been noticed according to the Brown Act (72 hours in advance of the
meeting at which the City Council considers the item).
ATTACHMENTS:
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