27 - Wastewater Treatment Plant Rehabilitation - presentation and contract amendment one

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Phase 2 of the project consists of the following services: 1. Funding Assistance 2. Boundary Survey 3. Environmental Services 4. Preliminary Design Services 5. Final Design Services 6. Bidding Services Phase 2 will successfully place the WWTF Project in a position to be bid for Construction. We estimate 12-18 months to complete Phase 2. A thorough breakdown of each of these services is found with the prepared amendment in your packets. The City Manager and I strongly recommend that upon completion of Phase 2 and in preparation for Phase 3 — Construction, the City further amend the June 2019 Professional Service Agreement once again to include Construction Oversight and Inspection Services. We believe there to be great advantage in having Garver USA as both designer and oversight/inspection of this project. This will limit the number of contacts we need to maintain, the amount of coordination we would have to maintain, place an experienced and knowledgeable individual as oversight and inspector of the job, and creates better efficiency having the designing entity also serve as the oversight and inspector of construction. We asked Garver USA to add this to the Phase 2 amendment, but they recommended that we wait until we complete final design to know exactly what it is that will be built and what the cost estimate will be for construction. Therefore, we will bring back a future amendment to add this portion of expense near completion of Phase 2. BUDGET: Proposed cost for Phase 2 of the agreement for professional engineering services for comprehensive rehabilitation of the City of Paris Wastewater Treatment Facility is $6,268,661.00. The Amendment Attachment B has a breakdown of this amount among the six different services. Garver USA has furthermore given us an extremely thorough breakdown by line item task and employee hour that supports these figures. Based on City Staff experience with other large capital improvement projects, and given the total cost of the project is estimated at around $69.5 million, the proposed fee is well within expectations for a project of this magnitude and complexity. The Garver USA, as part of Phase 1, which will be continued in to Phase 2, has assisted the City in pursuing a Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) low-interest loan to finance the City of Paris WWTF Project. Current interest rates are at an all-time low, so it is strongly recommended that now be the time that this project move forward as the low interest rates we are seeing could save the rate payers millions of dollars over the life of the loan. Because of CoVid-19 though, the