Title
Porters Neighborhood Improvements - SW 3rd Street GMP (B)
Explanation
The Porters community is an important intown neighborhood and one of Gainesville's oldest residential areas. It is located adjacent to the Central Business District, the Power District, University Heights, Innovation Square, and Depot Park. Despite the community's historic significance and its prime location to both established and upcoming elements within the city's urban core, the neighborhood has struggled with disinvestment and blighted conditions.
In order to address these challenges, the CRA, City, and GRU have identified Porters as a candidate for a variety of capital improvements infrastructure projects. GRU established a strategic initiative to underground utilities in the neighborhood, identifying the SW 3rd Street corridor as an undergrounding project. Additionally, PWD began exploring potential infrastructure improvements with Porters, and also identified SW 3rd Street as a priority corridor. In 2007, the CRA assumed a major role in coordinating the implementation of Porters improvements. The CRA worked with a multi-agency team of CRA, City, and GRU staff to coordinate strategies and move plans for infrastructure improvements from concept to reality. This team considered a number of corridors and infrastructure needs within the Porters community when identifying potential projects. DRAB and neighborhood residents also provided input on potential projects.
For a number of logistical reasons, the community, PWD, GRU, and the CRA identified SW 3rd Street as the best candidate project for initial infrastructure improvements within Porters. Once this decision was made, the CRA worked to organize a scope for infrastructure improvement along the corridor. The project scope extends from Depot Avenue to SW 4th Avenue and will include the construction of brick sidewalks throughout the entirety of the corridor (including upgrades for code compliance and ADA accessibility issues), undergrounding the overhead utilities, installation of lighting per CRA streetscape standards, and aesthetic improvements. The CRA is coordinating the project with PWD, and the project will also include collaboration with GRU to coordinate infrastructure necessary for GRU's planned undergrounding of the major overhead utility corridor running along SW 5th Avenue.
Per the CRA continuing service contract for Construction Managers, CRA staff has been working with PPI/Charles Perry Construction, LLC to develop a Guaranteed Maximum Price, or GMP, based on the 90% engineering documents for the SW 3rd Street project. The GMP represents the maximum amount that can be paid by the CRA for construction of the project, assuming no major changes in the scope of the project. The opportunity does exist, however, that the CRA may pay less than the GMP, as trade packages may be less than proposed in the GMP. In this event, the savings would be returned to the CRA. Additionally, if any contingency remains after project closeout, that amount is returned to the CRA as well. In contrast, if the actual bids for trade packages are more than proposed in the GMP, the CRA will not pay more than the amount of the GMP.
The Guaranteed Maximum Price for PPI's construction services is $674,030. In addition to the work included in the scope of the GMP, there is approximately $38,000 in additional costs for pedestrian and roadway lighting fixtures. There are also additional costs related to the overhead-to-underground utility conversions, including approximately $20,000 in wiring and terminations to each property, as well as certain civil/electrical infrastructure related to undergrounding their utilities. Project engineers Brown & Cullen, Inc. will also be retained to provide construction administration services.
Fiscal Note
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Recommendation
CRA Executive Director to the CRA: Approve the Guaranteed Maximum Price of $674,030 for Porters Neighborhood Improvements - SW 3rd Street, as designed.