REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Award of Bid No. PW17-08 for Annual Slurry Seal 2017 and Finding of CEQA Categorical Exemption
Report
REPORT IN BRIEF
Approval is requested to award a construction contract in the amount of $523,456 to Intermountain Slurry Seal, Inc. of Sparks, NV (a subsidiary of Granite Construction Inc.) for the Slurry Seal - 2017 (Public Works Project No. ST-17-02). Approval is also requested for a 10% construction contingency in the amount of $52,346.
EXISTING POLICY
Section 1309 of the City Charter requires 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 categorical exception pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15301 (Class 1, Existing Facilities) as it relates to the rehabilitation of existing streets involving negligible or no expansion of the existing use.
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
The annual slurry seal of City streets provides for maintenance of a portion of the City's streets each year. Slurry seal is the application of a mixture of oil, water, sand and selected additives to the surface of a street, which when allowed to dry/cure, provides a thin wearing surface and seals the underlying surface materials to assist in blocking the access of water into the subgrade. Slurry seal is a maintenance treatment that is easy to apply and economical, providing a cost-effective method to extend the life of a road surface.
Staff uses an annual pavement condition survey to determine which streets will benefit most from slurry sealing. The scope of this year's project is to slurry seal approximately 3.6 million square feet, which dependent on street width, will cover approximately fifteen miles of City streets. Site locations are shown in Attachment 3.
The project was advertised for competitive bidding in the Sunnyvale Sun on December 2, 2016, distributed to Bay Area Builder's Exchanges, and published o...
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