HomeMy WebLinkAboutFIN-06-046 - T06-088 - Stonegate Watercourse Restoration Project
Report To: Mayor Carl Zehr & Members of Council
Date of Meeting: 2006-10-30
Prepared By: Larry Gordon
Date of Report: 2006-10- 24
Report No: FIN 06-046
Subject: T06-088 - Stonegate Watercourse Restoration Project
RECOMMENDATION
That tender T06-088, Watercourse Restoration be awarded to Network Site
Services Ltd., Cambridge, at their corrected price of $428,911.17, including
items and contingency of $75,983.90 and G.S.T., and further that the
BACKGROUND
The Watercourse is located between Highway 8 and Stonegate Drive, flowing in a
direction to the Grand River. The watercourse conveys runoff from a catchment
area of 16 including both the adjacent subdivision and open space lands further to the
northwest.
The watercourse is located in a
average of 13
was clear that watercourse has been
has likely accelerated since
dropping a total of 15 metres, with an
of a site reconnaissance and a detailed
downcutting for a number of years.
of the subdivision approximately
The majority of the gully is located on lands owned
A number of residents on Stonegate Drive and one on Hofstetter Drive back onto the
although property lines generally remain above the top of the gully embankments.
It was concluded that remedial works would be required in the valley to prevent further
downcutting and to stabilize the existing steep embankments.
REPORT
Tenders were advertised publicly in The Record, The Daily Commercial News, the of
Kitchener website and on the Internet the Ontario Public Buyers Electronic
Information Nine (9) potential tender documents, and by the closing
19th, 2006, six
The following tenders were received:
Network Site Services Ltd
567089 Ontario Limited
o/a R&M Construction
J. Weber Contracting Limited
Gateman Milloy Inc.
Bomar Landscaping Inc.
Terracon Underground Ltd.
Cambridge ON
Acton ON
Breslau ON
Kitchener ON
Guelph ON
Brantford ON
$423,823.17
Corrected
$428,911.17
$436,172.78
$455,455.00
$497,681.00
$543,324.62
$551,216.59
$550,172.49
McCormick Rankin Corporation, the City's Consultants
Construction Technologist Engineering Division, who
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS
Funding will be provided from Index 855117 Stonegate Watercourse Restoration Project
REVENUES
Capital out of Current
EXPENSES
Construction Costs Year to Date
Tender T06-088
Less G.S.T Rebate
BALANCE
$428,911.17
$369,155.00
$ 2,314.00
$404,633.18
$132041.00
$538,988.13
Additional funds have been requested in the 2007 budget to cover the deficit
($169,833.13)
Larry Gordon
Director of Purchasing