20636ORDINANCE NO. 20,636
PIA
3 AN ORDINANCE TO DISPENSE WITH COMPETITIVE BIDDING AND
4 AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A SOLE
5 SOURCE CONTRACT WITH GARVER, LLC, FOR ENGINEERING
6 SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH A LANDSLIDE ON THE
7 ARKANSAS RIVER TRAIL; TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY; AND
8 FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
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10 WHEREAS, rain caused a large landslide in a portion of the Arkansas River Trail, and
11 WHEREAS, after a competitive selection process, consultants hired to prepare construction
12 drawings and do soil analysis for the corrective work on the landslide included Grubbs, Hoskyn, Barton
13 and Wyatt, Inc., with the Grubbs firm handling the geo- technical analysis and Garver, LLC, handling the
14 construction drawings through a subcontract, and
15 WHEREAS, competitive bidding for the designed construction work yielded no bids within the
16 given budget, and
17 WHEREAS, after FEMA Officials increased available funding to accommodate the difficulty of
18 construction, a need now exists to revise the earlier drawings and prepare biddable documents for a new
19 round of bidding on the construction work to correct the landslide, and
20 WHEREAS, the Grubbs Firm has indicated it has already performed its portion of the scope of
21 work, namely the geo- technical analysis, and has no interest in the additional work, and
22 WHEREAS, competitive bidding should be waived owing to Garver's familiarity with the
23 landslide area and the construction drawings already accomplished by Garver and therefore a contract
24 should be awarded to Garver to revise its earlier drawings and prepare new biddable documents for the
25 construction work.
26 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE
27 CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS:
28 Section 1. Due to the unique position of Garver, LLC as to the work it has already accomplished
29 on this landslide correction project, the Board of Directors finds that competitive bidding should be
30 dispensed with and that a contract for the remaining engineering services needed for the landslide
31 correction project should be awarded to Garver, LLC.
32 Section 2. The City Manager is hereby authorized to dispense with competitive bidding and to
33 enter into a sole source contract, in a form acceptable to the City Attorney, with Garver, LLC, in an
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amount not to exceed Sixty Thousand, Six Hundred Dollars ($60,600).
Section 3. Severability. In the event any title, section, paragraph, item, sentence, clause, phrase,
or word of this ordinance is declared or adjudged to be invalid or unconstitutional, such declaration or
adjudication shall not affect the remaining portions of the ordinance, which shall remain in full force and
effect as if the portion so declared or adjudged invalid or unconstitutional were not originally a part of the
ordinance.
Section 5. Repealer. All ordinances and resolutions, and parts thereof, that are in conflict with
any provision of this ordinance are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.
Section 6. Emergency. The work to be done to correct the landslide is deemed essential to the
public health, safety and welfare, particularly in order to assure that it will be done before weather
conditions could deteriorate the situation further; and emergency is, therefore, declared to exist, and this
ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage.
PASSED: September 18, 2012
Thomas M. Carpenter' orney
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APPROVED:
Mark Stodola, Mayor