Title
GLWA-CS-239
Good Sewer Metering Practice Analysis & Support Services
Body
Agenda of: April 25, 2018
Item No.: 2018-696
Amount: $4,034,843.34
TO: The Honorable
Board of Directors
Great Lakes Water Authority
FROM: Sue F. McCormick
Chief Executive Officer
Great Lakes Water Authority
DATE: April 6, 2018
RE: Contract No.: GLWA-CS-239
Good Sewer Metering Practice Analysis & Support Services
Vendor: CDM Smith Michigan, Inc.
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Suzanne Coffey, Chief Planning Officer, Interim Chief Operating Officer - Wastewater, the Board of Directors (Board) of the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), authorizes the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to enter into Contract No. GLWA-CS-239 "Good Sewer Metering Practice Analysis & Support Services" with CDM Smith of Michigan LLC, at a cost not to exceed $2,420,906.00 for a duration of three years with two optional one-year extensions at $806,968.67 per year for a total of $4,034,843.34 and authorizes the CEO to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND
The contract GLWA-CS-239 "Good Sewer Metering Practice Analysis & Support Services" replaces the contract CS-1543 "Greater Detroit Regional Sewer System (GDRSS) Good Metering Practice Analysis & Support". The project historically has included support services such as sewage collection system modeling and meter data analysis. The initial project in 1989 established the Flow Metering Task Force (FMTF) which was a technical committee that brought together the member communities to review sewer meter data and come to an agreement on the flows generated by each member. This resulted in reduction of the number of disputes concerning the technical basis for sewer charges.
The FMTF has evolved into the Wastewater Analytics Task Force (WATF) Program and, as the name indicates, took on an expanded work scope of customer engagement to include a broad variety of sewage collection system initiatives and ana...
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