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HomeMy WebLinkAbout6/29/2005 - STAFF REPORTS (23) WCity Council Staff Report DATE: June 29, 2005 Unfinished Business SUBJECT: CONVENTION CENTER PROJECT — APPROVAL OF STEEL TRADE CHANGE ORDER NO. 3 AND RELEASE FROM FUTHER DELAY CLAIMS. FROM: David H. Ready, City Manager BY: City Manager— Convention Center SUMMARY Staff requests that City Council approve Change Order No. 3 with the Convention Center Project Steel Trade Contractor which settles all claims of the Trade Contractor and releases the Trade Contractor from further claims of delay by the City. RECOMMENDATION: Adopt Minute Order No. "APPROVING CHANGE ORDER NO. 3 TO AGREEMENT NO. A4857, WITH W & W STEEL COMPANY INC. FOR A TOTAL ADD OF $129,665 AND RELEASING W & W STEEL COMPANY INC. FROM FURTHER CLAIMS OF DELAY BY THE CITY OF PALMS SPRINGS. STAFF ANALYSIS: The Convention Center Project steel design, due to the curving roof line, is one of the most complicated steel projects that has been erected in the Coachella Valley. The project design resulted in over three thousand sheets of shop drawings being developed to properly fabricate and assemble the steel members. During the preparation of steel shop drawings, steel fabrication and the erection phase a series of delays occurred in the project. The Trade Contractor has taken one position on the reasons for delay and the City has held an opposite opinion. The main focus of the Construction Management Team over the past ten months has been to find a way to overcome the delays, complete the project by the September 5, 2005 completion date and avoid delay claims from other Trade Contractors. Item No. 4 A City Council Staff Report June 29, 2005 -- Page 2 Approval of Steel Trade Change Order No 3 The steel work has been completed on the project and the project staff has received extra work change order requests of $540,000 and a series of claims from the Trade Contractor as follows: Anchor Bolt Fixes 93,000 Field Change Orders 460,000 Additional Shop Drawing Time 458,800 Additional Steel Shipping 85,000 Fabrication Overtime 550,000 Total Claims $1,646,800 The project staff has disputed many of the above claims and has asserted counter claims for delay. A battle over the claims and counter claims related to the steel on this project would be long, complicated and very costly and would tie up most of the remaining contingency for an extended period of time. For several months staff has been discussing a settlement of all issues with the Contractor that would reduce change order requests enough to cover the City's schedule recovery costs. The delays related to steel, regardless of where blame would eventually fall, exceeded 12 weeks. The Construction Management team has worked hard to reschedule the project and at this time feels confident that the finished product will be turned over to the City on schedule. To accomplish this, the Construction Manager brought on additional staff, the design team has made extra trips to coordinate with the steel contractor and overtime is being expended to close the schedule gap. Total out of pocket cost for the project delay recovery are estimated as follows: Additional Superintendent 96,000 Additional Design Team Coord. 80,500 Project Overtime by Trades 300,000 Total Actual Recovery Cost $476,500 The attached Change Order No. 3 compensates the Contractor for anchor bolt fixes that they carried out to correct errors by the Concrete Trade Contractor (Note: A companion Change Order has been processed to the Concrete Trade Contractor deducting the $93,500 for the fixes.), it allocates $36,165 for recent field changes that were not the Contractors fault, it zeros out all remaining Change Order requests and Claims by the contractor and it releases the Contractor from claims of delay by the City. A summary of the Steel Trade Contract final costs is as follows: Original Bid $8,765,000 City Council Staff Report June 29, 2005 -- Page 3 Approval of Steel Trade Change Order No 3 Change Order No. 1 (225,000) Change Order No. 2 30,335 Change Order No. 3 129,665 Final Contract Amount $8,700,000 With the Approval of Change Order No. 3 the total changes to the steel contract resulted in an overall reduction, below the original bid, of ($65,000). . FISCAL IMPACT: This Change Order results in an overall deduct to the original Steel Trade bid and ret�u(ps� Idollars to the project Contingency. Allen F. S oot'Pl t Administrator David H. Ready, City Mai gp e 0 Attachments: 1. Minute Order 2. Change Order MINUTE ORDERS MINUTE ORDER NO. APPROVING CHANGE ORDER NO. 3 TO AGREEMENT NO. 4857, WITH W & W STEEL COMPANY, INC. FOR A TOTAL ADD OF $129,665 AND RELEASING W & W STEEL COMPANY, INC. FROM FURTHER CLAIMS OF DELAY BY THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS. I, James Thompson, City Clerk of the City of Palm Springs, hereby certify that this Minute Order approving Change Order No. 3 to Agreement No. 4857 with W & W Steel Company, Inc. for a total add of $129,665 and releasing W & W Steel Company, Inc. from further claims of delay by the City of Palm Springs, was adopted by the City Council of the City of Palm Springs, California, in a meeting thereof held on the day of 12005. James Thompson, City Clerk CITY OF PALM SPRINGS PALM SPRINGS CONVENTION CENTER EXPANSION PHASE II CONSTRUCTION CHANGE ORDER To: W &W Steel Date: June 15, 2005 23152 Verdugo Drive, #150 Project No. 02-27 Laguna Hills, CA 92653 Change Order No. 3 Purchase Order No. 416610A Agreement No. A4857 Attn: Chuck Gossage Account No. 4283-50003 Description of Change to be Made: Description Add/Deduct Amount "The total Contract amount for any and all work, including but not limited Add: $129,665.00 to Change Order requests, performed by Contractor, Contractor's Subcontractors, Contractor's Consultants or Contractor's Suppliers through June 6, 2005, under Agreement No. A4857, City Project 02-27, is $ 8,700,000.00. Any and all claims, asserted or not, for additional compensation, liquidated damages or delay charges related to time delay under this Contract, by either party, are hereby settled and released. All other Terms and Conditions of this Contract shall remain in effect. Further, this settlement does not relieve Contractor from completing omitted work, punch list items or fixing improperly installed work or from submitting as-builts, warranty and all other Contract close-out requirements. Any new non-contract work performed after June 6, 2005 shall be considered additional work and shall be compensated under the terms and conditions of this Contract." TOTAL ADD: $ 129,665.00 AUTHORIZATION FOR CHANGE: Summary of Cost/Time Original Contract Price $ 8,765,000,00 Total of all Previous Change Orders $ (194,665.00) Total of this Change Order $ 129,665.00 Total Contract Price $ 8,700,000.00 This Change Order(increases) (decreases) (unchanged)the contract time by 0 working days. I have received a copy of this Change Order Constr. Manager: and the above AGREED PRICES are acceptable Approval: Date: to the contractor. Turner Construction Company City Approval: By: Submitted By: Date: Owner's Representative Title: Approved by: Date: Date: Project Administrator Distribution: Oriqinal Conformed Copies Conformed - File Copy City Clerk (1) Project Administrator (1) Contractor (1) Procurement& Contracting (1) Finance (1) Owner's Representative (1) Turner Construction (1)