RESOLUTION NO. 23-
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HERCULES EXTENDING FOR TWO MONTHS THE APPROVED LISTS OF QUALIFIED VENDORS FOR PLANNING-RELATED AND ENGINEERING-RELATED SERVICES.
WHEREAS, the City relies on professional planning services (including city planning, environmental and technical planning, architecture and urban design, landscape architecture, historic preservation, and fiscal analysis services) and on professional engineering-related services (including civil engineering, surveying, construction management, construction inspection, geotechnical engineering, traffic engineering, stormwater, assessment district engineering, structural engineering, environmental remediation, design and monitoring, and wastewater engineering); and WHEREAS, often times the need for these services is urgent and cannot wait for Requests for Qualifications (RFQ) preparation and review; and WHEREAS, in 2018, the City issued a request for qualifications from companies offering professional planning and engineering services, and from responses to that RFQ, City staff recommended a list of qualified consultants; and WHEREAS, the City Council approved the lists of qualified consultants with adoption of Resolution No. 18-33 for planning-related services (adopted May 8, 2018) and Resolution No. 18-38 for engineering-related services (adopted June 12, 2018); and WHEREAS, the City Council’s approval of the lists of qualified consultants was valid for three years (through April 2021); and WHEREAS, on May 11, 2021, the City Council approved Resolution No. 21-09 extending the lists of qualified consultants for two years (through April 2023); and WHEREAS, on February 7, 2023, the City issued a Request for Qualifications for professional planning and engineering services, for which it received 43 responses; and WHEREAS, City staff recommends that the City of Hercules re-authorize for two months the qualified vendor lists with firms that provide these services to expedite the delivery of capital improvement projects and review of private development projects while the responses to the 2023 RFQ are being reviewed; and WHEREAS, City staff is not requesting any funding at this time because funding authorizations will be requested at the time the services are needed, in accordance with the City’s purchasing policy; and WHEREAS, this agreement does not prohibit the City of Hercules from issuing future Request for Proposals and/or Qualifications if deemed necessary.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Hercules hereby extends until June 30, 2023 the expiration of its list of qualified vendors for planning, environmental and technical planning, transportation planning, architecture & urban design, landscape architecture, historic preservation, and fiscal analysis services.
The foregoing Resolution was duly adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Hercules held on the twenty-eighth day of March, 2023, by the following vote of the Council:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSTAIN:
ABSENT:
Alexander Walker-Griffin, Mayor
ATTEST:
Eibleis Melendez, Acting City Clerk
March 28, 2023
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