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PROPOSED CONTRACT AMENDMENT (TRANSPORTATION AND HIGHWAYS)
Department(s): Transportation and Highways
Vendor: URS Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Chief Procurement Officer to extend contract
Good(s) or Service(s): Long Range Transportation Planning Services
Location: Countywide
County Board District(s): Countywide
Original Contract Period: 6/1/2013-5/31/2015 with one (1) one (1), year renewal option.
Section: 12-6LRTP-01-ES
Proposed Contract Period Extension: 6/1/2016-5/31/2017
Section: 12-6LRTP-01-ES
Total Current Contract Amount Authority: $1,368,420.92
Original Board Approval: 5/8/2013, $998,975.74
Previous Board Increase(s): 10/28/2015, $369,445.18
Previous Chief Procurement Officer Increase(s): 8/7/2015, 6/1/2015-5/31/2016
This Increase Requested: N/A
Potential Fiscal Impact: N/A
Accounts: Motor Fuel Tax Fund (600-585 Account)
Contract Number(s): 12-88-332
IDOT Contract Number(s): N/A
Federal Project Number(s): N/A
Federal Job Number(s): N/A
Concurrences:
The vendor has met the Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise Ordinance.
The Chief Procurement Officer concurs.
Summary: This contract consists of developing a Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP), which includes preparation of a Countywide transportation system inventory, providing forecast socioeconomic data to establish future travel demand, identification and evaluation of transportation deficiencies and transportation improvements that are supportive of a preferred scenario, compiling recommendations for strategies and major capital projects into a recommended plan, financial analysis of estimated revenues and projected transportation improvement costs, comprehensive regional and local coordination and other necessary engineering tasks. This extension is needed to expand upon activities with in the original scope of so to achieve greater public participation in the planning process.
This contract was awarded through a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) procedure in accordance with the Cook County Procurement Code. URS Corporation was selected based on established evaluation criteria. end