Title
Contract No. 2001488
7 Mile/Nevada Transmission Main Renewal Project
CIP# 122017 / BCE Score: 84.2
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Agenda of: October 28, 2020
Item No.: 2020-352
Amount: $12,943,129.29
TO: The Honorable
Board of Directors
Great Lakes Water Authority
FROM: Sue F. McCormick
Chief Executive Officer
Great Lakes Water Authority
DATE: October 7, 2020
RE: Contract No. 2001488
7 Mile/Nevada Transmission Main Renewal Project
Vendor: Pullman SST, Inc.
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Cheryl Porter, Chief Operating Officer - Water and Field Services, the Board of Directors (Board) of the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), authorizes the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to enter into Contract No. 2001488 "7 Mile/ Nevada Transmission Main Renewal Project" with Pullman SST, Inc., at a cost not to exceed $12,943,129.29 for a duration of 2,861 days; and authorizes the CEO to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND
GLWA monitors regional water system demand versus installed capacity as part of its water master planning process. A 2015 Water Master Plan Update indicated that the regional system has significant excess capacity for water treatment compared to projected water demand. To address this imbalance, the Water Master Plan Update recommended a program to reduce the regional treatment capacity to better align it with future system water demands.
The above-referenced 2015 Water Master Plan Update for the regional drinking water system recommended that the Northeast Water Treatment Plant (WTP) be repurposed, which means that low-lift and treatment facilities at Northeast WTP would be decommissioned, and a mix of new/existing water transmission systems would be used to deliver maximum day demands to the existing reservoirs and high lift pumps at the Northeast site.
The existing Northeast WTP maximum day demands are approximately 160 million gallons per day (MGD). GLWA recognized early in the planning process that Wate...
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