Item - 2020.IE14.5

The Infrastructure and Environment Committee recommends that:

1. City Council direct that the information in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (June 24, 2020) from the Chief Engineer and Executive Director, Engineering and Construction Services and the Chief Procurement Officer remain confidential in its entirety as it relates to commercial or financial information that belongs to the City and has potential monetary value, and it involves a position, plan or procedure, criteria or instruction to be applied to any negotiation carried on, or to be carried on by or on behalf of the City.

2. City Council authorize the Chief Engineer and Executive Director of Engineering and Construction Services and/or designate to negotiate and enter into an appropriate form of agreement with Aecon, the current contractor of the F.G. Gardiner Expressway Rehabilitation Project: Section 1 – Jarvis Street to Cherry Street (Contract No. 18ECS-TI-01GE), to deliver the Water Works based on the terms and conditions set out in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (June 24, 2020) from the Chief Engineer and Executive Director, Engineering and Construction Services and the Chief Procurement Officer and on terms satisfactory to the Chief Engineer and Executive Director of Engineering and Construction Services and each in a form satisfactory to the City Solicitor.

The purpose of this report is to request authority to negotiate and enter into a new or amending agreement with Aecon Construction and Materials Limited (Aecon), the contractor for the F.G. Gardiner Expressway Rehabilitation Project: Section 1 – Jarvis Street to Cherry Street (Contract No. 18ECS-TI-01GE), to construct a new sanitary sewer and watermain (Water Works) along Lower Jarvis Street, intersecting Aecon's Gardiner Expressway construction work zone. The terms and conditions of the proposed agreement are set out in Confidential Attachment 1 of the report.

These Water Works involve the upgrading of the existing sanitary sewer along Lower Jarvis Street from south of Lake Shore Boulevard to north of the Metrolinx Lakeshore East Corridor bridge over Lower Jarvis Street; and the replacement of the existing 90 year old cast iron watermain, which is in poor condition, along Lower Jarvis Street, from The Esplanade to Queen's Quay.

Undertaking this work now will ensure that adequate sanitary sewer capacity will be in place by mid-2021, to support the new development in the East Bayfront Waterfront Community; and given the major traffic disruption resulting from this construction undertaking this work now aligns with the City's objective of accelerating construction, where possible, to take advantage of the lower traffic volumes as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.