5447246 Resolution 21-83, Change Order No. 10 to Contract No. GF-2010-C-0030 Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

21-83

 

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 No. 10 to Contract No. GF-2010-C-0030 with Parkinson/Forrester UDC Student Center JV, LLC for the construction of the New Student Center, University of the District of Columbia, Van Ness Campus, and to authorize payment in the aggregate amount of $3,975,633.00 for the goods and services received and to be received under the change order.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Change Order No. 10 to Contract No. GF-2010-C-0030 Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015”

 

            Sec. 2.  (a) There exists an immediate need to approve Change Order No. 10 to Contract No. GF-2010-C-0030 with Parkinson/Forrester UDC Student Center JV, LLC for the construction of the New Student Center, University of the District of Columbia, Van Ness Campus, and to authorize payment in the aggregate amount of $3,975,633.00 for the goods and services received and to be received under the change order. 

(b)  On January 21, 2011, the University of the District of Columbia awarded Contract No. GF-2011-C-0030 in the amount of $29,899,000.00 to Parkinson/Forrester UDS Student Center JV, LLC for the New Student Center, University of the District of Columbia, Van Ness Campus.

(c)  On January 26, 2015, the University of the District of Columbia approved Change Order No. 10 to Contract No. GF-2011-C-0030 in the amount of $3,975,633.00 for additional work to be performed by Parkinson/Forrester UDC Student Center JV, LLC during the construction of the New Student Center, University of the District of Columbia, Van Ness Campus.

(d)  The value of Change Order No. 10 to Contract No. GF-2010-C-0030 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 Order No. 10 to Contract No. GF-2011-C-0030 the amount of $3,975,633.00 is necessary to minimize undue delay attributable to lengthy negotiations over the scope and cost of the change order and to compensate Parkinson/Forrester UDC Student Center JV, LLC for work performed and to be performed in completing the construction of the New Student Center on the Van Ness Campus.

 

            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 Order No. 10 to Contract No. GF-2010-C-0030 Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Act of 2015 be adopted after a single reading.

 

            Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.