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PROPOSED CONTRACT (TRANSPORTATION AND HIGHWAYS)
Department(s): Transportation and Highways
Vendor: County Material Partners, A Joint Venture, in the City of Chicago, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to enter into and execute contract.
Good(s) or Service(s): Quality Control/Quality Assurance and Material Testing Services
Location: Various Locations throughout Cook County
County Board District: Countywide
Section: 14-8TEST-02-EG
Contract Value: $800,000.00
Contract period: 12/1/2014 - 11/30/2016 with a one (1) year option to renew
Centerline Mileage: N/A
Potential Fiscal Year Budget Impact: FY 2015 $400,000.00; FY 2016 $400,000.00
Accounts: Motor Fuel Tax Fund (600-585 Account)
Contract Number(s): 1484-13331
IDOT Contract Number(s): N/A
Federal Project Number(s): N/A
Federal Job Number(s): N/A
Concurrences:
Vendor has met the Minority and Women Business Enterprise Ordinance.
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs.
Summary: Request for Qualifications (RFQ) procedures were followed in accordance with the Procurement Code. This contract includes but is not limited to materials engineering and inspection, coring and boring, quality assurance, material sampling, testing, documentation, reporting, review of test results and recommendation of corrective action if necessary, plant and jobsite inspection, review of quality control plans, forensic analysis and verification of mix designs applicable to various projects' concrete, asphalt, aggregate and soils materials during the pre-construction, construction and post-construction phases, as well as concrete and asphalt plant inspection training to Department of Transportation and Highways' staff, research, development and recommendation of new materials and assist in the development of and maintenance of a materials database system.
County Material Partners, A Joint Venture, of Chicago, Illinois was selected as the qualified vendor. It is recommended that the contract be awarded to County Material Partners, A Joint Venture, of Chicago, Illinois.
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