STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Transportation & Infrastructure
AGENDA DATE: September 25, 2024
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): 1, 4, 7
DEPARTMENT: Department of Transportation
EXECUTIVE: Dev Rastogi
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SUBJECT
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Authorize a professional engineering services contract with Freese and Nichols, Inc., the most highly qualified proposer specifically for traffic signal design services for the six intersections in Group 10 as follows: Edgefield Avenue at Illinois Avenue, Lancaster Road at Overton Road, Malcolm X Boulevard at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Overton Road at Sunnyvale Street, Pentagon Parkway at Polk Street, Louisiana Avenue at Zang Boulevard; and other related tasks - Not to exceed $422,908.00 - Financing: ARPA Redevelopment Fund ($335,308.00) and Street and Transportation (A) Fund (2017 General Obligation Bond Fund) ($87,600.00)
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BACKGROUND
This action will authorize a professional engineering services contract with Freese and Nichols, Inc., for the design of traffic signals at the following intersections:
Intersection Council District
Edgefield Avenue at Illinois Avenue 1, 4
Lancaster Road at Overton Road |910|Louisiana Avenue at Zang Boulevard |910|Overton Road at Sunnyvale Street|910|Pentagon Parkway at Polk Street |910|Malcolm X Boulevard at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard |910|
This design contract will support the installation of warranted traffic signal infrastructure at these intersections to improve traffic efficiency and safety.
On March 1, 2024, the City of Dallas released Request for Qualifications "CIZ24-TRN-3071-Traffic Signal Design Professional Engineering Services - Multiple Contracts" for professional engineering services for the development of traffic signal plans, specifications, and estimates for twelve traffic signal groups and received fifteen proposals from interested firms.
In May 2024, a five-member selection committee consisting o...
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