REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Award of Contract for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Access Evaluation and Transition Plan for City Facilities and Rights-of-way (F16-55) (Continued from March 15, 2016)
Report
REPORT IN BRIEF
Approval is requested to award a contract to Sally Swanson Architects, Inc. of San Francisco in the amount not to exceed $269,415 for consultant services to complete a comprehensive Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) evaluation and updated transition plan for more than 50 City buildings, associated parking lots, and public rights-of-way (260 miles of streets, intersections, curb ramps, sidewalks, etc.) for the Department of Public Works, Traffic and Transportation Division. Approval is also requested for a 10% contract contingency in the amount of $26,942.
EXISTING POLICY
Consistent with the provision of Sunnyvale Municipal Code Chapter 2.08, contracts for the procurement of services are awarded pursuant to a Request for Proposals (RFP) process, unless otherwise exempt from the competitive bidding.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The action being considered does not constitute a "project" within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15378(a) as it has no potential for resulting in either a direct physical change in the environment, or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment.
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
The development of an ADA Transition Plan is a requirement of the federal regulations to implement the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which require that all jurisdictions receiving federal funds make their programs available without discrimination toward people with disabilities. The Act, which has become known as the "civil rights act" of persons with disabilities, states that:
No otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States shall, solely by reason of handicap, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the b...
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