STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Transportation & Infrastructure
AGENDA DATE: June 26, 2024
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): 7
DEPARTMENT: Department of Transportation
EXECUTIVE: Majed Al-Ghafry
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SUBJECT
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Authorize a professional engineering services contract with Freese & Nichols, Inc. to provide a truck route traffic feasibility study and preliminary/schematic design services to reroute the truck traffic and create a context sensitive design/road diet on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard from State Highway 352 to Botham Jean Boulevard for CSJ 0918-47-375 - Not to exceed $500,000.00 - Financing: MLK Blvd TREC Project from SH352 - RTR Fund
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BACKGROUND
If approved, this action will authorize a professional engineering services contract with Freese & Nichols, Inc. to provide a truck route traffic feasibility study and preliminary/schematic design services to reroute the truck traffic and create a context sensitive design/road diet on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (MLK Blvd) from State Highway 352 to Botham Jean Boulevard for CSJ 0918-47-375 (“Project”).
In May 2023, the City of Dallas entered into an Advance Funding Agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to accept $500,000.00 in Regional Toll Revenue funds to complete the Project, with the City of Dallas leading implementation of the engineering.
On September 6, 2023, the City of Dallas issued a Request for Qualifications CIZ23-TRN-3042 - MLK Blvd Truck Route Traffic Feasibility Study and Preliminary/Schematic Engineering Design and received four proposals.
A five-member selection committee consisting of staff from the Department of Transportation, Development Services, Department of Planning and Urban Design, and Small Business Center Department reviewed and evaluated the proposals. Freese & Nichols, Inc. was selected by the committee as the most qualified proposer to provide professional engineering services for the Project.
ESTIMATED SCHEDULE OF PROJECT
Begin Design July 2024
Complete Design February 2025
PRIOR ACTION/REVIEW (COUNCIL, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS)
On May 10, 2023, the City Council authorized an Advance Funding Agreement with TxDOT to accept Regional Toll Revenue funds for engineering to reroute the truck traffic and create a context sensitive design/road diet on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard from State Highway 352 to Botham Jean Boulevard (Agreement No. CSJ 0918-47-375) in the amount of $500,000.00 as State participation from the State Highway 121 Subaccount for 100 percent of the project costs (no local participation required) by Resolution No. 23-0620.
FISCAL INFORMATION
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Fund |
FY 2024 |
FY 2025 |
Future Years |
|
MLK Blvd TREC Project from SH352 - RTR Fund |
$100,000.00 |
$400,000.00 |
$0.00 |
M/WBE INFORMATION
In accordance with the City’s Business Inclusion and Development Policy adopted on September 23, 2020, by Resolution No. 20-1430, as amended, the M/WBE participation on this contract is as follows:
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Contract Amount |
Procurement Category |
M/WBE Goal |
|
$500,000.00 |
Architecture & Engineering |
34.00% |
|
M/WBE Subcontracting % |
M/WBE Overall % |
M/WBE Overall Participation $ |
|
45.43% |
45.43% |
$227,165.50 |
|
• This contract exceeds the M/WBE subcontracting goal. |
|
• Freese & Nichols, Inc. - Local; Workforce - 35.48% Local |
PROCUREMENT INFORMATION
The following proposals were reviewed and selected in October 2023:
*Indicates most highly qualified proposer
Proposers Score
*Freese & Nichols, Inc. 81.75
801 Cherry Street, Suite 2800
Fort Worth, TX 76102
Fehr & Peers 78.25
Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. 74.75
Gresham Smith 72.50
OWNER
Freese and Nichols, Inc.
John Dewar, Principal
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