Title
Joint resolution authorizing an agreement with International Cybernetics Company, LP dba Infrastructure Management Services, Largo, Florida, to provide professional engineering services for annual pavement testing and management services, at a maximum cost of $162,930, and appropriating $200,000 of Matching Tax funds.
Staff Summary
* These services include testing 50 percent of the county highway system, including dynamic load testing and laser testing procedures, to maintain a pavement management system used to prepare a five-year pavement preservation program to keep the county highway system in a state of good repair.
* Lake County selects professional engineering 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.
* The selected firm has a satisfactory past relationship with the Lake County Division of Transportation.
* This project is included in the Transportation Improvement Program and designated as Section 26-00219-00-ES.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the county highway system consists of 914 lane miles of pavement; and
WHEREAS, the county highway system has a replacement cost of over $3,100,000,000; and
WHEREAS, it is recommended to perform annual pavement testing and make annual pavement preservation investments to keep the county highway system in a state of good repair; and
WHEREAS, professional engineering services are required to maintain the pavement management system; and
WHEREAS, it is recommended that a consultant engineering firm be employed to provide these professional engineering services; and
WHEREAS, Lake County, by and through its Division of Transportation, has selected a professional engineering...
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