HomeMy WebLinkAboutFIN-10-072 - T10-030 - Stirling Av Road Reconstruction
REPORT
REPORT TO:
Mayor Carl Zehr & Members of Council
DATE OF MEETING:
2010-05-17
SUBMITTED BY:
Larry Gordon, Director of Supply Services
PREPARED BY:
Larry Gordon, Director of Supply Services
WARD(S) INVOLVED:
1
DATE OF REPORT:
2010-05-10
REPORT NO:
FIN 10-072
SUBJECT:
T10-030- Stirling Avenue North (King Street East to Weber Street
East) Road Reconstruction
RECOMMENDATION:
That tender T10-030, Stirling Avenue North (King Street East to Weber Street East) Road
Reconstruction, be awarded to Terracon Underground Ltd., Brantford, Ontario at their tendered
price of $805,701.88., including provisional items of $93,956.32, plus G.S.T. of $40,285.09., for
a total of $845,986.97, and further that the Mayor and City Clerk be authorized to execute an
agreement satisfactory to the City Solicitor.
BACKGROUND:
The infrastructure for the Stirling Avenue Reconstruction project has generally reached the end
of its’ useful life and requires full replacement. This reconstruction project includes Stirling
Avenue North between King Street East and Weber Street East. The construction of this project
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starts on June 7 and will be completed in August 2010.
The total road length is approximately 265m. The project involves the proposed replacement of
sewers, watermains, curbs, sidewalk and services to the property line along Stirling Avenue and
the pavement will be reconstructed for the full width.
REPORT:
Tenders were advertised publicly in The Record, The Daily Commercial News, on the City of
Kitchener website and the Internet through the Ontario Public Buyers Electronic Tendering
Information System. Ten (10) potential bidders picked up tender documents, and by the closing
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date of Thursday May 6, six (6) tenders had been received.
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The tenders were reviewed by K. Cobbe, IBI Group, Waterloo, the City’s Consultants for the
project, and M. Memon, Design & Construction Project Manager, who concur with the above
recommendation.
The following tenders were received:
Total Bid Price Corrected Bid
Price
Terracon Underground Brantford ON $ 845,986.97 *
United Contracting London ON $ 867,262.80 $ 867,236.56
Sierra Construction Woodstock ON $ 873,400.05
Sousa Concrete Branchton ON $ 883,160.04
Steed and Evans Limited St. Clements ON $ 896,175.00
Bel-Air Excavating Cambridge ON $1,422,122.52
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS:
Funding will be provided from Internal Orders – 6997 and 52000207 – 52000210 – Stirling
Avenue North Reconstruction – King Street East to Weber Street East
HST may be charged on all or part of the contract amount, although the exact impact is not
determinable at this time. The project manager has confirmed that sufficient contingency exists
within the project budget to fund the cost of the non-rebatable portion of the HST should it
become applicable to this contract.
Financial Report is attached.
* Any surplus funds will be returned to uncommitted (59500194) which are projects funded by
Sanitary Sewer (46%), Waterworks (31%) and Capital out of Current (23%).
ACKNOWLEDGED BY: Dan Chapman, General Manager of Financial Services and City
Treasurer
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