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Council Report: C 81/2020

Subject: Amendment to Agreement with Dillon Consulting Ltd, - Proposal No. 66-15 LRWRP Diesel and MCC Upgrades - Ward 2

Reference:

Mayor and Members of City Council To:

Recommendation:

THAT an additional $55,800.00 plus applicable HST BE APPROVED for the Consulting Firm of Dillon Consulting Ltd. to provide additional professional engineering services required for the upgrade of the Diesels Generator and Motor Control Centre (MCC) for the Lou Romano Water Reclamation Plant (LRWRP); and,

THAT the additional $60,000 in funds required to complete the project BE TRANSFERRED from the Pollution Control Reserve (FUND 208); and,

THAT the Chief Administrative Officer and the City Clerk BE AUTHORIZED to execute an addendum to the contract with Dillon Consulting Ltd., satisfactory in technical content to the City Engineer, in financial content to the City Treasurer and in form to the City Solicitor with charges allocated to 007-2915-9998-02942-7162006.

Executive Summary:

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Background:

In August 2015 CR146/2015 approved the hiring of Dillon Consulting Ltd for the preparation of contract drawings and specifications and contract administration for the Diesel and Motor Control Centre upgrades at the Little River pollution Control Plant (LRPCP) and the Lou Romano Water Reclamation Plant (LRWRP). The total fees for both projects was $697,500.00.

The scope of the project at the LRWRP is to replace the No. 2 generator and power distribution system in the Main Pump House (MPH) which was over 40 years old. Also in the LRWRP scope

Page 1 of 5 we elected to participate in the Government of Ontario’s Demand Response program which would require us to run our new generator during peak demand periods in order to remove us from the Province’s electrical grid thereby making more energy available for other consumers. To operate our generators outside of emergency demand (i.e. storms, power loss) required us to install addition emissions control equipment.