5446276 Resolution 21-71, Change Orders Nos. 001 through 004 to Contract No. DCAM-14-CS-0102 Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015

A RESOLUTION

 

21-71 

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

April 14, 2015

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to approve Change Order Nos. 001 through 004 to Contract No. DCAM-14-CS-0102 with Tompkins Builders, Inc. for design- build services for the Stanton Elementary School modernization and addition, and to authorize payment for the goods and services received and to be received under these change orders.

 

            RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Change Orders Nos. 001 through 004 to Contract No. DCAM-14-CS-0102 Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015”.

 

            Sec. 2. (a) There exists an immediate need to approve Change Order Nos. 001 through 004 to Contract No. DCAM-14-CS-0102 with Tompkins Builders, Inc., for design-build services for the Stanton Elementary School modernization and addition, and to authorize payment for the goods and services received and to be received under the change orders. 

            (b) In 2014, the Council approved Contract No. DCAM-14-CS-0102 with Tompkins Builders, Inc. to provide design-build services for the modernization of Stanton Elementary School with a target Guaranteed Maximum Price (“GMP”) of $17,100,000. Thereafter, the Department issued Change Order No. 001 ($916,872), Change Order No. 002 ($0), and Change Order No. 003 ($80,000), with a total aggregate value of $996,872; thus, Council approval was not required.    

            (c) The Department has issued Change Order No. 004, in the amount of $16,416,411,for Phase B of the project, including construction of a three-story addition to the existing building as well as a new single story wing.

            (d)  The aggregate value of Change Orders Nos. 001 through 004 to Contract No. DCAM-14-CS-0102 exceeds the $1 million threshold under section 451 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 803; D.C. Official Code § 1-204.51). 

(e)  Approval of Change Orders Nos. 001 through 004 to Contract No. DCAM-14-CS-0102 is necessary to compensate Tompkins Builders, Inc. for the work performed and to be performed under the change orders.

 

            Sec. 3.  The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Change Orders Nos. 001 through 004 to Contract No. DCAM-14-CS-0102 Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Act of 2015 be adopted after a single reading.

 

            Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.