Amador County – The cost of an environmental document and project approval work for the Pine Grove Corridor Improvement Project was estimated by the state and the lead bidding firm to cost $1.3 million.
Amador County Transportation Commission on Thursday will consider staff and state recommendation to hire Dokken Engineering for a contract not to exceed $1.3 million to carry out “Project Approval & Environmental Document” work for the Highway 88 Pine Grove Corridor Improvement project.
ACTC Planner and Program Manager Neal Peacock in a report to the Commission said staff and Dokken will give a presentation for the Commission’s review on Thursday, because of “the importance of the project to the Commission and the community.” The review will look at “the total amount of the consultant’s cost proposal, and the complexities of the scope of work.”
The presentation will include the Consultant Selection Committee’s process in choosing Dokken, a “task-by-task review” of the scope of work and related Caltrans requirements and “ACTC’s Context Sensitive Solutions” approach to the project. It will also include an evaluation of the proposal by line-item.
Peacock said the funds remaining for the Pine Grove Corridor project total $2.03 million, and staff has a “strategy to advance any savings to the project’s next phase. He recommended keeping $197,000 as contingency funds for the Project Approval & Environmental Document, and reserving $500,000 toward the next phase, which is “Plans, Specifications and Estimates.”
Tasks in the Scope of Work, created by Dokken and Caltrans’ Project Development Team, include project management, survey and base mapping, traffic studies, geotechnical engineering, preliminary engineering, public outreach, environmental approval and 35 percent design, with a project report.
The ACTC will consider the staff recommendation in a special meeting 5 p.m. Thursday, April 12 in the Supervisors’ chamber in the county admin building in Jackson.
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