REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Award of Contract for Design of the Orchard Heritage Park Project (F15-111)
Report
REPORT IN BRIEF
Approval is requested to award a contract to Callander Associates Landscape Architecture, Inc. of San Jose in the amount of $123,363 for design of the Orchard Heritage Park Project. Approval is also requested for a 10% design contingency in the amount of $12,336.
EXISTING POLICY
Consistent with the provisions of Chapter 2.08 of the Sunnyvale Municipal Code, civil engineering design contracts are awarded pursuant to a Request for Proposals (RFP) process, unless otherwise exempt from the competitive bidding.
In addition, the City evaluates civil engineering design proposals in conjunction with the Qualification Based Selection (QBS) process established in California Government Code section 4525 et. seq.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
This award of a design contract is not a project as defined in Section 15378 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
Orchard Heritage Park is located in the Sunnyvale Community Center campus at 550 East Remington Drive. The park is approximately ten acres in size and occupies the southern-most portion of the site. It is bordered to the south by Crescent Avenue, to the west by Manet Drive and to the east by Michelangelo Drive. The park consists of a fruit orchard, an orchard barn, the Heritage museum, a multi-purpose building, the Orchard Heritage Park Interpretive Exhibit, gardens, landscaping, public art, and a trash enclosure and maintenance building that serve the entire Community Center campus.
Capital Project 830480 (Orchard Heritage Park) will make accessibility and usability improvements to the Heritage Park Museum and surrounding areas. This will be achieved by removing the cinder block wall separating the museum from the nearby parking lot, relocating the maintenance building and adjacent dumpster enclosure elsewhere on the site, and imp...
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