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Canal Street Ferry Terminal Project Amendment Requesting Woodward-APC's Contract
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DESCRIPTION: Requesting Board Authorization to Amend Woodward-APC's contract to include the revised Permanent Barge work
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RECOMMENDATION:
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To authorize the Chief Executive Officer to amend Woodward-APC's contract for a not-to-exceed amount of $700,681.16 to include the revised Permanent Barge scope of work.
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ISSUE/BACKGROUND:
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In March 2020, RTA removed the Half Grand Union (HGU) from the Canal Street Ferry Terminal project. As this decision resulted in roughly $1.3M. in savings, RTA staff reallocated these savings to the permanent barge to enhance functionality. These changes include expanding the width of the access gangway, adding a sewage pumping system to the barge, and adding an internal ballasting system.
The redesigns are complete, revised price has been submitted by Woodward-APC, and Woodward-APC's revised scope has been validating by the Marine engineer. RTA staff are now working with Royal and Dupont-LeCorgne to analyze and validate the cost and finalize the negotiations.
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DISCUSSION:
While the previous design met operational requirements, the above changes improve system functionality by allowing operations to service larger volumes of passengers quicker, providing operations a secondary method to service ferries utilities, and reduce operation functions by including an internal ballasting system which requires less manpower than the previous system.
While the original plan was to use the HGU savings to support the revised permanent barge cost, the FTA has granted authorization for RTA to use savings from new Ferry Boats purchase. The HGU savings will now be allocated to the project's contingency.
Redesigns were expected to be completed earlier this year but delayed due to slowdowns in regulatory agency p...
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