Lake County, IL
File #: 23-1206    Version: 1 Name: Professional Traffic Services: Consultant Contract Award Gewalt Hamilton and Appropriation
Type: resolution Status: Passed
File created: 8/23/2023 In control: Public Works and Transportation Committee
On agenda: Final action: 9/12/2023
Title: Joint resolution authorizing an agreement with Gewalt Hamilton Associates Inc., Vernon Hills, Illinois, for up to two years of traffic consultant services, at a maximum cost of $150,000 and appropriating $180,000 of 1/4% Sales Tax for Transportation Funds.
Attachments: 1. 23-1206 Consultant Agreement, GHA, 2. 23-1206 Vendor Disclosure, GHA

Title

Joint resolution authorizing an agreement with Gewalt Hamilton Associates Inc., Vernon Hills, Illinois, for up to two years of traffic consultant services, at a maximum cost of $150,000 and appropriating $180,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation Funds.

 

Staff Summary

•                     This agreement will provide traffic engineering consulting services, allowing for individual task orders to be issued at a maximum cumulative value of $150,000 over a two-year contract term.

•                     Lake County selects professional services firms in accordance with the Local Government Professional Services Selection Act, 50 ILCS 510/1 et. seq.

•                     The Lake County Division of Transportation’s (LCDOT) Consultant Selection Process has been approved by the Federal Highway Administration and the Illinois Department of Transportation, and the firm selected for this project was selected in accordance with this approved process.

•                     LCDOT received and evaluated Statements of Interest and Qualifications from five professional engineering firms.

•                     This project is included in the Transportation Improvement Program, and designated as Section 23-00701-01-EG.

 

Body

RESOLUTION

 

WHEREAS, the Lake County Division of Transportation is seeking traffic engineering consulting services; and

 

WHEREAS, it is recommended that a traffic consultant services firm be employed to provide these traffic consultant services; and

 

WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, has selected a traffic consultant services firm in accordance with the Local Government Professional Services Selection Act, 50 ILCS 510/1 et. seq.; and

 

WHEREAS, Gewalt Hamilton Associates Inc., Vernon Hills, Illinois, are traffic consultants skilled in the provision of these traffic consultant services; and

 

WHEREAS, this agreement will allow individual task orders to be issued up to a maximum cumulative amount of $150,000 over a two-year contract term; and

 

WHEREAS, an appropriation of funds is required.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the County Board Chair, the County Clerk, and the County Engineer of Lake County are authorized, and hereby directed to execute on behalf of Lake County, an agreement, and any amendments, between Lake County and Gewalt Hamilton Associates Inc., Vernon Hills, Illinois, for traffic consultant services, at a maximum amount of $150,000 for a two-year term, a draft copy of which is attached hereto; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the County Engineer shall transmit, in writing, the final agreement and any amendments, to be executed by the County Board Chair and the County Clerk; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that there is hereby appropriated $180,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation funds for these traffic consultant services, and designated as Section 23-00701-01-EG; and

 

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 appropriation.

 

DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on September 12, 2023.