REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Award of Bid No. PW16-06 for Orchard Gardens Park Restrooms Renovation and Finding of CEQA Categorical Exemption (Continued from March 15, 2016)
Report
REPORT IN BRIEF
Approval is requested to award a construction contract in the amount of $120,365 to Integra Construction Services, Inc. of San Martin for the Orchard Gardens Park Restrooms Renovation project (Public Works Project No. PR-14/10-16). Approval is also requested for a 15% construction contingency in the amount of $18,055. A construction contingency higher than the customary 10% is being requested because of the potential for unforeseen conditions associated with renovating the existing building, more fully explained below.
EXISTING POLICY
Section 1309 of the City Charter requires public works construction contracts to be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) determination for this project is a Class 1 categorical exemption pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15301 for alterations to existing facilities involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond that presently existing.
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
This construction contract is part of Capital Project 818550, Park Buildings Rehabilitation, which provides for planned infrastructure repairs and renovations to the City's park buildings. For this particular project, the two existing gender-specific restrooms at the park multi-purpose building will be renovated. The layout of fixtures and the ingress and egress of the restrooms do not meet current Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines, and the overall size of each room is too small to comply with the current regulations.
The new restrooms will expand to the storage spaces adjacent to the restrooms within the multi-purpose building. Construction consists of installing new plumbing, mechanical and electrical fixtures as well as wall framing, sheathin...
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