Title
Salt River Project Pre-Design Agreement for Substation Improvements at 91st Avenue Wastewater Treatment Plant (Ordinance S-44502)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to enter into two separate service agreement contracts with Salt River Project (SRP) for payment of pre-design services for two substations located at the 91st Avenue Wastewater Treatment Plant, in an amount not to exceed $47,000. Further request authorization for the City Controller to disburse all funds related to this item. Additionally request the City Council to grant an exception pursuant to Phoenix Code section 42-20 to authorize inclusion of indemnification and assumption of liability provisions in the documents pertaining to this transaction that otherwise would be prohibited by Phoenix Code section 42-18.
Report
Summary
The contracts with SRP are for pre-design services for each of the two substations at the 91st Avenue Wastewater Treatment Plant, Tres Rios and Unified Substations for the Water Services Department (WSD). These substations do not currently meet SRP standards for isolated redundancy and are at risk of experiencing power failures. Pre-design services are used to determine SRP design changes necessary to prevent failure of the two substations which would result in a complete plant shutdown. SRP will consult WSD on the pre-design services only. WSD will review SRP's recommendations before entering into contracts with SRP for the design and construction phase for these substation modifications.
Contract Term
Each of the two contracts are for one year starting on or about April 4, 2018, through March 31, 2019.
Financial Impact
Funding in the amount of $47,000 is available in the Water Services Department's Capital Improvement Program budget.
Location
The 91st Avenue Wastewater Treatment Plant is located at 5615 S. 91st Ave.
Council District: 7
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Manager Karen Peters and the Water Services Department.