STAFF REPORT
City of Lancaster
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1/28/2025
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Date: January 28, 2025
To: Mayor Parris and City Council Members
From: Marissa Diaz, Director - Public Works
Nicholas Godin, Assistant Director – PW City Engineering Subject: Award of Bid and Task Order for Multi-Year Professional Services (Service Group Category 16 - Labor Compliance) - PWCP 22-007 – 2024 Safer Streets Action Plan Recommendations:
1. Award Public Works Construction Project (PWCP) 22-007, 2024 Safer Streets Action Plan, to PS Development Corporation, DBA Comet Electric of Chatsworth, California, in the amount of $965,600.00 plus a 10% contingency, to complete traffic signal modifications at various locations within the City of Lancaster, and authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to sign all documents in accordance with California Public Contract Code Section 22038(b).
2. Find the City has complied with the California Environmental Quality Act. A Notice of Exemption was filed on March 15, 2021, and April 20, 2022.
3. Authorize Task Order expenditure amount of $9,656.00, plus a 5% contingency, for labor compliance services award to the successful firm in Multi-Year Professional Services Agreement, Service Group Category (SGC) 16 - Labor Compliance.
G.C. Section 84308: No
Fiscal Impact:
$1,072,298.80 (including 10% construction contract contingency and 5% labor compliance contingency); sufficient funds are available in the Capital Improvements Budget in project string CP16ZZ001.CONST, GL Accounts 22049900.8000, 22549900.8000, and 41049900.8000. 1 9
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Background:
The proposed project is funded by the Local Fund, Prop C, Measure R and Signal Developer Fees.
This project will include traffic signal modifications at the following locations:
Avenue J and 15th Street East
Avenue J-8 and Challenger Way
Avenue J and Division Street
Avenue I and Sierra Hwy
Avenue K and 40th Street West (AA-1)
Avenue K and 15th Street East (AA-2)
Avenue H and 10th Street West (AA-3)
Per Section 2.2 of the Existing Community Workforce Agreement, (CWA), this project is subject to the CWA by and between the City of Lancaster and Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council, and the Signatory Craft Councils and Unions. The PWCP 22-007 contract documents were prepared, and the project was advertised accordingly. Per Section 2.6(b) of the CWA, Letters of Assent shall be submitted by the Contractor and each of its subcontractors, of whatever tier, 48 hours prior to commencement of work, or within 48 hours after the award of Project Work to that Contractor, (or subcontractor), whichever occurs later.
On December 5, 2024, at 11:00 a.m., the City conducted an electronic bid opening for PWCP 22-007 via PlanetBids. Comet Electric was the lowest responsive responsible bidder. The bid results are shown below.
Contractor City Bid Amounts
1. Comet Electric Chatsworth, CA $965,600.00*
2. Taft Electric Lancaster, CA $1,468,879.00
Engineer's Estimate $1,764,350.00
* Revised due to clerical/mathematical error
On November 8, 2022, the City Council approved Multi-Year Professional Service Agreements for various Service Group Categories with the consulting firms recommended by staff to be pre- qualified service providers through December 31, 2026. The Multi-Year Agreement permits City staff to issue Task Orders for individual projects. Proposals will be requested from those prequalified under Service Group Category (SGC) 16 – Labor Compliance, and a task order will be executed with one of the following firms:
Cumming Management Group, Inc.
Golden State Labor Compliance, LLC
Perceptive Enterprises, Inc.
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Attachment:
Vicinity Map