5047412 Resolution 20-565, “Proposed Multiyear Contract No. DCPL-2013-C-0004 Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

20-565  

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

July 14, 2014         

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to approve multiyear Contract No. DCPL-2013-C-0004 with Martinez and Johnson Architecture to provide architectural and engineering design services for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, and to authorize payment for those services to be received under the contract.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as “Proposed Multiyear Contract No. DCPL-2013-C-0004 Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”. 

 

Sec. 2. (a)  There exists an immediate need to approve multiyear Contract DCPL-2013-C-0004 with Martinez & Johnson Architecture for architectural and engineering design services, including programming and conceptual design services, for the renovation of and addition to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library for a performance period of 791 calendar and to authorize payment for the services to be received under the contract.

(b)  On February 16, 2014, the Technical Evaluation Panel recommended the award to Martinez & Johnson Architecture of Contract No. DCPL-2013-C-0004 and transmitted its results to the Chief Procurement Officer and the former interim Chief Librarian.  After an independent evaluation, the Chief Procurement Officer recommended that the contract be awarded to Martinez & Johnson Architecture, for a performance period of 791 calendar days. 

 (c)  The estimated total expenditure under this multiyear contract with Martinez & Johnson Architecture is $2,700,300.

 (d)  Council approval is necessary for the contract is one in excess of $1 million and to allow the performance and payment for these vital services. Without this approval, Martinez & Johnson Architecture cannot perform the multiyear services or be paid for the services to be provided in excess of $1 million.   

 

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 Proposed Multiyear Contract No. DCPL-2013-C-0004 Approval and Payment Authorization Emergency Act of 2014 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.