DATE: November 21, 2017
TO: Board of Mayor and Aldermen
FROM: Eric Stuckey, City Administrator
Mark Hilty, Assistant City Administrator for Public Works
Michelle Hatcher, Director of Water Management
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Consideration of Change Order No. 1 to the Construction Contract (COF Contract No. 2014-0288) with Revere Controls, Inc. for the Water Distribution and Collection System SCADA Improvements Project for a Time Extension of 51 calendar days (11/30/17 CIC 4-0)
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Purpose
The purpose of this memo is to provide information to the Franklin Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BOMA) concerning the Change Order No. 1 to the Construction Contract (COF Contract No. 2014-0288) with Revere Controls, Inc. for the Water Distribution and Collection System SCADA Improvements Project for a Time Extension of 51 calendar days.
Background
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen passed a resolution on September 13, 2016, to award Revere Control Systems, Inc., the Water Distribution System and Collection System SCADA Improvements project with a contract amount of $1,949,980.00, a substantial completion date of October 5, 2017, and a final completion date of January 3, 2017. The SCADA system improvements included, among other scope, replacement of remote telemetry units and associated routers and modems at each of the remote stations (i.e., wastewater pump stations, potable water booster pump stations, etc.). The remote telemetry unit included two modes of communication: 1) Radio (the primary mode), and 2) Cellular phone (the failover or backup mode).
The City’s cellular service carrier is Verizon Wireless. Verizon Wireless notified Revere Controls, Inc., in July 2017 that the specified router and modem equipment would not work with their system in the future. Revere Controls, Inc., CDM Smith, Inc. and the City worked together to find and test an alternate solution. A new solution was identified and tested, but significant available project schedule time and schedule float time were consumed in the process, resulting in shifting of the projected substantial and final completion times. These schedule impacts are considered to be outside of the control of Revere Controls, Inc.
The reason for this change order is to modify the contractual substantial and final completion dates to account for the impacts of the change in router and modem equipment. This change will modify the substantial completion date from October 5, 2017 to January 18, 2018 and will modify the final completion date from January 3, 2018, to February 23, 2018.
Financial Impact
Change Order No. 1 will not increase the financial obligations of the original contract.
Recommendation
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Staff recommends approval of Change Order No. 1 to the Construction Contract (COF Contract No. 2014-0288) with Revere Controls, Inc. for the Water Distribution and Collection System SCADA Improvements Project for a Time Extension of 51 calendar days.