Title
Joint resolution authorizing the execution of an agreement between Lake County and ECS Midwest, LLC, Buffalo Grove, Illinois for materials inspections for the FY2011 LCDOT highway construction program. This resolution also appropriates $65,000 of Matching Tax funds for FY2011 materials inspections and designated as Section 11-00000-12-EG.
Staff Summary
· FY2011 Materials Inspections: Consultant Agreement and Appropriation
· The LCDOT must provide Quality Assurance testing for contractor supplied construction and maintenance contract projects during the FY2011 construction season.
· Additional consultant services are needed due to IDOT cutbacks.
· The selected and recommended consultant is ECS Midwest, LLC, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, at a maximum cost for services described of $53,600.
· This resolution authorizes the execution of a professional services agreement with ECS Midwest, LLC, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, and appropriates $65,000 of Matching Tax funds for these services.
Body
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, annually, during the construction season, oversees highway construction and maintenance projects worth tens of millions of dollars; and
WHEREAS, it is advisable that a firm be employed to provide additional professional engineering services for material inspections on said projects; and
WHEREAS, in order to acquire necessary professional engineering services, an appropriation of funds are required for this fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, has selected a professional engineering services firm, ECS Midwest, LLC, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, in accordance with the Local Government Professional Services Selection Act, for said materials inspections.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that ECS Midwest, LLC, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, be employed to provide professional engineering services for the materials inspections, and that the Chair of the County Board, the County Clerk and the County Engineer of Lake County are authorized and they are directed to execute, on behalf of Lake County, a contract for the provision of said services for the materials inspection, a draft copy of which is attached hereto. The County Engineer shall transmit in writing the final agreement to be executed by the Chair of the County Board and the County Clerk.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that there is hereby appropriated $65,000 of Matching Tax funds for these inspection services and designated as Section 11-00000-12-EG.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this agreement be administered in accordance with Chapter 605, Act 5, Section 5-205.2 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes without further Board action, providing the final contract cost chargeable under the funds appropriated does not exceed the appropriations provided.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on March 15, 2011.