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Joint resolution authorizing a contract with Berger Excavating Contractors, Wauconda, Illinois, in the amount of $90,371.20, for the construction of compensatory floodplain storage as part of the Winchester Road and County Access Road improvement, and designated as Section 10-00151-22-CH.
Staff Summary
· Winchester Road and County Access Road Compensatory Floodplain Storage: Contract Award.
· Winchester Road will be improved at the west County campus access road.
· The overall improvement includes adding left turn lanes on Winchester Road east bound into the west County access road and west bound into the Butler Lake Park entrance, the construction of compensatory floodplain storage, as well as a barrier median at the Metra tracks with the estimated cost being $1,500,946.
· The first stage of the improvement is to construct the compensatory floodplain storage with the engineer's estimated cost being $97,692.
· A total of one bid was received for the construction of the compensatory floodplain storage, and the responsible bidder is Berger Excavating Contractors, Wauconda, Illinois, in the amount of $90,371.20.
· This resolution authorizes execution of a contract with Berger Excavating Contractors, Wauconda, Illinois, in the amount of $90,371.20 for the construction of the compensatory floodplain storage.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, pursuant to authority granted by this Lake County Board, the County Engineer heretofore called for sealed bids, by publication, for the Winchester Road Compensatory Floodplain Storage, and designated as Section 10-00151-22-CH; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to said publication calling for said bid, sealed bids were received and opened on October 22, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. at the Lake County Division of Transportation in Libertyville, Illinois; a tabulation of said bids being as follows:
Berger Excavating Contractors
Wauconda, IL
$90,371.20
WHEREAS, the Public Works and Transportation Committee, the County Engineer and the Purchasing Agent have examined each bid, and it appears that the lowest responsible bidder is Berger Excavating Contractors, Wauconda, Illinois, their bid being $90,371.20 based on estimated quantities and unit prices; and
WHEREAS, this Lake County Board, by prior resolution at its meeting of October 8, 2013, appropriated $2,365,000 of Motor Fuel Tax funds for the Winchester Road and County Access Road improvement; and
WHEREAS, the Winchester Road Compensatory Floodplain Storage is the first stage of the overall improvement to complete the Winchester Road and County Access Road improvement.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board, that a contract be awarded to said Berger Excavating Contractors, Wauconda, Illinois, in accordance with their bid of $90,371.20, based on estimated quantities and unit prices, and that the Purchasing Agent, the County Clerk, and the County Engineer of Lake County be authorized and they are hereby directed to enter into a contract with said low bidder for the Winchester Road Compensatory Floodplain Storage , and designated as Section 10-00151-22-CH.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in as much as such estimated quantities are the best approximation that can be determined at this time, these quantities may be added to, deducted from, or modified from in the final determination of the contract cost in accordance with Chapter 605 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes, Act 5, Section 5-205.2 without further Board action, providing the final cost chargeable to the funds appropriated does not exceed the appropriation.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this award be processed by the County Engineer for final approval of the Illinois Department of Transportation in accordance with the "Agreement of Understanding" between the Illinois Department of Transportation and Lake County, dated January 18, 2013.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on November 12, 2013.