Item - 2019.IE2.7

The Infrastructure and Environment Committee recommends that:

1. City Council authorize the General Manager, Toronto Water to negotiate and execute a non-competitive agreement with Plan Group Inc. for the completion of the Project for an amount not to exceed $13,960,143.20 including provisional items, contingency and all applicable charges net of all taxes ($14,205,841.72 net of HST recoveries) on terms and conditions satisfactory to the General Manager, Toronto Water and in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor.

2. City Council authorize the General Manager, Toronto Water to amend Purchase Order No. 6037723, issued to Cole Engineering Group Ltd. for the provision of professional engineering services as Consultant for the completion of the Project, by $661,948.35 net HST ($673,598.64 net of HST recoveries) from $1,127,370.50 to $1,789,318.85 net HST ($1,820,810.86 net of HST recoveries) and to extend the delivery date to December 31, 2021.

The purpose of this report is to advise City Council on the requirements for the completion of the Ellesmere Pumping Station Power Generators Upgrade Project (the "Project") and to request authority to enter into a non-competitive contract with Plan Group Inc. ("Plan Group") for the completion of the Project in an amount not to exceed $13,960,143.20 net of all taxes ($14,205,841.72 net of HST recoveries). The rationale for this non-competitive contract is on the basis of urgency to complete the Project as soon as possible since the City terminated the Aplus General Contractor Corp. ("Aplus") from the original contract and Plan Group's knowledge of the Project as Plan Group was a major subcontractor to Aplus and the prices Plan Group has provided to Aplus will remain the same. 

Furthermore, authority is requested to extend the Site Supervision, Contract Administration and Consultant services provided by Cole Engineering Group Ltd. for completion of the Project, to amend the dollar value of Purchase Order 6037723 in the amount of $661,948.35 to $1,789,318.85 net HST ($1,820,810.86 net of HST recoveries) and to extend the contract delivery date to December 31, 2021.