Meeting_Body
REVISED
CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE
JUNE 18, 2015
Subject/Action
SUBJECT: I-405 SEPULVEDA PASS IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT
ACTION: AUTHORIZATION FOR CHANGE ORDER
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
AUTHORIZED UNDER RECONSIDERATION the Chief Executive Officer to execute Change Order 195.00 to Contract No. C0882, with Kiewit Infrastructure West Company, for settlement of Claim No.115 for the Additional Work for the Preparation of Fact Sheet Exceptions for Mandatory and Advisory Design Standards, in the Agreed to amount of $1,550,000, increasing the total contract value from $911,755,372 to $913,305,372. Requested funds are within the Life-of-Project (L-O-P) budget.
Issue
ISSUE
As part of the IFB package, preliminary plans and initial fact-sheets were provided by Caltrans to document several of the anticipated design exceptions at the end of the environmental phase in 2008. However, from 2009 to 2014, the final engineering design process for the I-405 Project included a rigorous review for each element of the project, performed by Caltrans Headquarters and District 7 staff, identifying a significant amount of additional design exceptions beyond those originally anticipated and required to complete the final engineering design work and achieve the State approvals for the project. These additional fact-sheets were required to facilitate any revised highway design features that (1) differed from the IFB base configuration, (2) resulted from a change order or other unforeseen condition in the field, and/or (3) required a supplemental or updated fact-sheet to document the design exceptions within the final construction drawings. Because this work was unforeseen, yet required to achieve State approval in order to facilitate construction, a change order is merited to compensate the contractor appropriately.
Discussion
DISCUSSION
The I-405 Project required additional engineering design work by Kiewit to supply all required fact-sheets supporti...
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