REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Award of Bid No. PW17-32 for the Pavement Rehabilitation 2017 Project, and Finding of California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Categorical Exemption
Report
REPORT IN BRIEF
Approval is requested to award a construction contract in the amount of $567,355 to Interstate Grading & Paving, Inc. of San Francisco for pavement rehabilitation. Approval is also requested for a 10% construction contingency in the amount of $56,736.
EXISTING POLICY
Section 1309 of the City Charter requires public works construction contracts to be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder.
Pursuant to Chapter 2.08 of the Sunnyvale Municipal Code, City Council approval is required for construction contracts exceeding $100,000.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The California Environment Quality Act (CEQA) determination for the project is a categorical exemption pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15301(c), for the restoring and rehabilitating of existing highways and streets, sidewalks, gutters, bicycle and pedestrian trails, and similar facilities, involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond that presently existing.
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
Capital Project 825290 (Pavement Rehabilitation) provides funding for ongoing roadway infrastructure rehabilitation. Each year, staff surveys one half of the City's streets and inputs the data in the City's pavement management system. The system produces a list of deteriorated streets and plans are made to repair, slurry seal, double chip seal overlay, or reconstruct the streets as needed.
The Pavement Rehabilitation 2017 project includes nearly 70,000 square feet of pavement rehabilitation, which is approximately half a mile of roadway. This project includes rehabilitation of the following streets: Murre Lane, from Exmoor Way to Meadowlark Lane, and Lakeside Drive, from Calabazas Creek bridge to 790 feet west of the bridge. These streets are in poor condition and have medium to severe block cracking and...
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