Primary Department: Purchasing
Primary Department Head/Elected Official: Kimberly J. Williams, JD
Secondary Department: Flood Control District
Secondary Department Head/Elected Official: Tina Petersen
Regular or Supplemental RCA: Regular RCA
Type of Request: Contract - Amendment
Project ID (if applicable): 230458
Vendor/Entity Legal Name (if applicable): BGE, Inc.
MWBE Contracted Goal (if applicable): 20%
MWBE Current Participation (if applicable):
Justification for 0% MWBE Participation Goal: N/A - Goal is not 0% and is listed above
Grant Indirect Costs Rate (if applicable):
Justification for 0% Grant Indirect Costs Rate (if applicable): Choose an item.
Request Summary (Agenda Caption):
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Request that the County Judge execute an amendment to an agreement with BGE, Inc. in the additional amount of $5,000,000 for continued services for professional engineering services to provide program management, project management, construction management, and inspection services for the development and implementation of CDBG-DR and CDBG-MIT Projects for the Flood Control District for the period of August 6, 2024 - August 5, 2026 (230458), MWBE Contracted Goal: 20%.
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Background and Discussion:
The Harris County Flood Control District (Flood Control District) anticipates receiving approximately 46 Community Development Block Grant Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) and Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) grants from the Texas General Land Office. These CDBG-MIT and CDBG-DR projects (Projects) have short project durations to expend all the grant funds.
Staff augmentation is needed to assist the Flood Control District by managing engineering consultants during the design phase and supply staff augmentation during the construction phase of these projects. An RFQ was developed, and eleven (11) engineering firms submitted with five selected. BGE, INC was one of the five selected firms who will provide staff augmentation for multiple individual proje...
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