File #: 18-00788    Version: 1
Type: Agenda Item Status: Passed
File created: In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 10/2/2018 Final action: 10/2/2018
Title: Consider recommendations regarding Debris Basin Restoration Projects - Thomas Fire 1-9 Debris Flow Incident, First District, as follows: Acting as the Board of Directors, Flood Control and Water Conservation District: a) Find that the bid received for the Debris Basin Restoration Projects - Thomas Fire 1-9 Debris Flow Incident from R. Burke Corporation was non-responsive and reject this bid from the bid opening on August 30, 2018; b) Reject the bid protest filed by R. Burke Corporation on September 4, 2018 and find that the bid protest is without merit; c) Approve plans and specifications for the Debris Basin Restoration Projects - Thomas Fire 1-9 Debris Flow Incident; d) Award the construction contract for the Debris Basin Restoration Projects - Thomas Fire 1-9 Debris Flow Incident, in the amount of $716,695.00 (including $32,500.00 in itemized supplemental work) to the lowest responsible bidder Lash Construction, Inc. (a local vender), subject to the provisions of documents an...
Sponsors: PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, FLOOD CONTROL AND WATER CONSER
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attach A - Plans, 3. Attach A - Specs, 4. Attach B - Lash Contract, 5. Attach C - R Burke Bid Protest

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Consider recommendations regarding Debris Basin Restoration Projects - Thomas Fire 1-9 Debris Flow Incident, First District, as follows:

 

Acting as the Board of Directors, Flood Control and Water Conservation District:

 

a) Find that the bid received for the Debris Basin Restoration Projects - Thomas Fire 1-9 Debris Flow Incident from R. Burke Corporation was non-responsive and reject this bid from the bid opening on August 30, 2018;

 

b) Reject the bid protest filed by R. Burke Corporation on September 4, 2018 and find that the bid protest is without merit;

 

c) Approve plans and specifications for the Debris Basin Restoration Projects - Thomas Fire 1-9 Debris Flow Incident;

 

d) Award the construction contract for the Debris Basin Restoration Projects - Thomas Fire 1-9 Debris Flow Incident, in the amount of $716,695.00 (including $32,500.00 in itemized supplemental work) to the lowest responsible bidder Lash Construction, Inc. (a local vender), subject to the provisions of documents and certifications, as set forth in the plans and specifications applicable to the project and as required by law;

 

e) Authorize the Chair to execute the construction contract upon return of the contractor’s executed contract documents, and the review and approval of the County Counsel, Auditor-Controller, and Risk Manager or their authorized representatives; 

 

f) Authorize the Public Works Director or designee to approve changes or additions to the work being performed under the Construction Contract, in an amount not to exceed $48,334.75 for the Debris Basin Restoration Projects - Thomas Fire 1-9 Debris Flow Incident;

 

g) Determine that the Debris Basin Restoration Projects - Thomas Fire 1-9 Debris Flow Incident shall be carried out and determine that it is for the benefit of a single zone; and

 

h) For the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) that:

 

i) These actions are within the scope of the Final Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) for the Updated Routine Maintenance Program [State Clearinghouse No. 2001031043] and the Debris Basin Maintenance and Removal Plan, which both adequately describes this activity for the purposes of California Environmental Quality Act; and

 

ii) Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines sections 15168(c)(2) and 15162(a), after considering the PEIR certified by the Board of Directors in November 2001, and the Debris Basin Maintenance and Removal Plan, which is a set of Addenda tiered off of the PEIR and approved by the Board of Directors on June 6, 2017, that no subsequent EIR or Negative Declaration is required because: i) no substantial changes are proposed which require major revisions of the PEIR; ii) no substantial changes have occurred with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken which require major revisions of the PEIR; and iii) no new information of substantial importance concerning the project’s significant effects or mitigation measures, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time that the PEIR was certified, has been received.