TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to amend Contract No. 33498 with Hirsch & Associates Inc., of Anaheim, CA, and Contract No. 33504 with RJM Design Group, Inc., of San Juan Capistrano, CA, for as-needed landscape architectural services, to increase the total aggregate contract amount by $1,000,000, for a revised total aggregate contract amount not to exceed $9,000,000, and extend the terms of each contract to August 1, 2023. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to amend Contract No. 33498 with Hirsch & Associates and Contract No. 33504 with RJM Design Group, Inc., to continue providing as-needed landscape architectural services.
On July 22, 2014, the City Council awarded six contracts as part of its adoption of RFP PW14-005 for landscape architectural services for a two-year period, with the option to renew for three additional one-year periods, for an aggregate amount of $3,000,000. On June 13, 2017, the City Council authorized the addition of $4,000,000, for a new total aggregate amount of $7,000,000, and extended the term of the contracts for one additional one-year term until August 1, 2020. On October 6, 2020, the City Council authorized an additional one-year extension to August 1, 2021, for the two contracts to prevent an interruption to services. On July 6, 2021, the City Council authorized an additional $1,000,000 for a new aggregate amount of $8,000,000 and extended the term of the contracts to August 1, 2022. The City of Long Beach (City) relies on the landscape architecture firms to deliver on a wide range of capital projects, which range from feasibility studies to full design services for new parks, trails, street landscaping and improvement of existing open spaces and accessibility upgrades.
The current contracts expire on August 1, 2022, and the City has exhausted all permitted contract extensions. The procurement process for the next set of on-call landscape a...
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