Lake County, IL
File #: 11-1341    Version: 1 Name: FY2012 Materials Inspections: Consultant Agreement and Appropriation
Type: resolution Status: Passed
File created: 12/29/2011 In control: Public Works and Transportation Committee
On agenda: Final action: 1/17/2012
Title: Joint resolution authorizing the execution of an agreement between Lake County and ECS Midwest, LLC, Buffalo Grove, Illinois for material inspections for the FY2012 Lake County Division of Transportation (LCDOT) highway construction program appropriating $85,000 of Matching Tax funds and designated as Section 12-00000-05-EG.
Attachments: 1. 11-1341 FY2012 Meterials Inspections Consultant Agreement Attachment.pdf
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Joint resolution authorizing the execution of an agreement between Lake County and ECS Midwest, LLC, Buffalo Grove, Illinois for material inspections for the FY2012 Lake County Division of Transportation (LCDOT) highway construction program appropriating $85,000 of Matching Tax funds and designated as Section 12-00000-05-EG.

Staff Summary
· FY2012 Materials Inspections: Consultant Agreement and Appropriation.
· The LCDOT must provide quality assurance testing for contractor supplied construction and maintenance contract projects during the FY2012 construction season.
· The selected and recommended consultant is ECS Midwest, LLC, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, at a maximum cost for services of $70,925.
· This resolution authorizes the execution of a professional services agreement with ECS Midwest, LLC, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, and appropriates $85,000 of Matching Tax funds for these services.

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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 Lake County Board, that ECS Midwest, LLC, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, be employed to provide professional engineering services for the materials inspections, and that the County Board Chair, the County Clerk and the County Engineer of Lake Co...

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