The Parks and Recreation Department recommends approval of award for construction services to G.P. Cooper Industries, Inc. dba Cooper General Contractors for the Arbor Hills Restroom and Storage project in the amount of $851,914.
In 2016, it was identified that the capacity within the existing restrooms were underserving patron needs at the park as evidenced by wait lines. The project to provide additional restroom capacity was included and approved in the 2017 Bond Referendum. This project includes the construction of a new restroom building with eight stalls and renovates the existing restroom building converting it from six stalls into one large family restroom leaving some remaining space for storage. The new restroom building will provide more capacity for individual park patrons decreasing wait times experienced with the current building. And, the conversion of the existing restroom building to a family restroom will help alleviate wait times in the building with the single stalls. As Arbor Hills is one of the most heavily used park sites, providing this extra restroom capacity improves the level of service to our patrons.
The project was solicited as a Competitive Sealed Proposal to secure an experienced contractor and to ensure a project proposal that ensures pinpoint phasing of the project designed to minimize disruptions to park users as well as the park itself. We received three responses to this request.
All proposals were reviewed and evaluated according to the published criteria. The recommended vendor received the highest scores in the technical evaluation categories (Project Approach and Management Plan & Relevant Experience and References). The recommended vendor has relevant experience in custom vertical structures and their proposal included a detailed and clear project approach. This vendor submitted the second lowest cost; however, the score of the technical criteria placed this vendor as the best overall value for the Arbor Hills Restroom and Storage project.
The contract fee is $851,914 which includes all construction costs for the new restroom and renovation costs for the existing restroom.
The benefits of this project includes additional restroom capacity and storage space. Not approving the expenditure will not provide the needed restroom capacity and storage space.