TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to increase Blanket Purchase Order (BPO) No. BPDV19000016 with Eyestone-Jones Environmental, LLC, of El Segundo, CA, for Environmental Impact Report (EIR) services, by $41,680, for a total amount not to exceed $141,680, and extend the term of the BPO to October 31, 2019. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to increase the existing BPO with Eyestone-Jones Environmental (Eyestone) for EIR services, by $41,680 and extend the term to October 31, 2019.
On December 2, 2014, the City Council awarded contracts to eight firms, including Eyestone, as part of the adoption of Specifications No. RFP DV14-045 for on-call environmental consulting services. In March 2018, Eyestone was selected to prepare a Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) as part of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) process for a project. Subsequent to the MND being completed in October 2018, the City determined that a more robust environmental review would be necessary by means of preparing an EIR. Because Eyestone completed the MND and had extensive knowledge of the project, their scope of work, with an estimated completion of September 2019, was accepted by Department of Development Services’ Planning Bureau staff in November 2018.
Eyestone’s on-call environmental consulting services Contract No. 33803 expired on December 31, 2018. Pursuant to the City purchasing guidelines, the City Manager authorized an interim BPO in the amount of $100,000 on December 27, 2018 for Eyestone to continue with the preparation of an EIR. This amount is less than the estimated total proposed for the EIR. Approval to increase the BPO will ensure that preparation of the EIR continues to progress.
This matter was reviewed by Deputy City Attorney Linda T. Vu on January 30, 2019, by Purchasing and Business Services Manager Sandy Tsang-Palmer on February 8, 2019, and by Budget Analysis Officer Julissa José-Murray on Febr...
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