The Engineering Department recommends approval of an expenditure in the amount of $127,606 for providing construction materials testing professional services from Terracon Consultants, Inc. for the Westgate Subdivision Paving and Water Line Improvements, Project No. 7045. This contract includes testing services for new water line placement and pavement reconstruction along the following residential streets:

            Cambridge Dr. (from Alma Dr. to Dickens Dr.)

            Warwick Dr. (from Alma Dr. to Dickens Dr.)

            Arbor Downs Dr. (from Alma Dr. to Dickens Dr.)

            Eagle Pass (Cambridge Dr. to Arbor Downs Dr.)

            Dickens Dr. (from Cambridge Dr. to Kipling Dr.)

            Brittany Dr. (from Cambridge Dr. to the alley)

The total expenditure is $127,606. Terracon Consultants, Inc. was deemed most qualified based on their Statement of Qualifications submission for RFQ No. 2019-0397-X.

Materials testing ensures quality construction will be performed and limit future maintenance and replacement of the project’s infrastructure. 

Not approving the expenditure would result in City of Plano’s specified requirements not being met, and potentially reducing the new construction’s service life and increasing future maintenance costs.

Funding for this item is available in the 2019-20 Street Improvements CIP and Water CIP and is planned in both funds for 2020-21, as well.  Construction material testing professional services, in the total amount of $127,606, will leave a combined balance of $6,279,489 for future project expenditures. 

Approval of this item will support the City's Strategic Plan Critical Success Factors of being an Excellent, Innovative, and Accountable City Government that offers Multi-Modal Transportation and Mobility Solutions.