Res 2015-114/Professional Services Agreement between the City and CH2M Hill Engineers, Inc. for the provision of Professional Engineering Services in connection with the miscellaneous improvements at the San Marcos Wastewater Treatment Plant Project

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A. The City may direct the Engineer to perform services outside of the scope of the Basic Services described in Section A above. The Engineer will submit a written estimate of fees to the City and obtain the City's authorization before initiating any additional services. B. Each material change (deletion or addition) in the services to be provided by the Engineer must be authorized by the City on the Authorization of Change in Services form attached to this Agreement as Attachment. Compensation for additional services will be in addition to that specified for Basic Services in accordance with Section of this Agreement. The approval of the San Marcos City Council is necessary for all additional services the compensation for which exceeds $50,000.00. C. Both the Engineer and the City understand and assume the following: 1) That only technical specifications and drawings are needed. This scope assumes that services for bidding of this work, like bid forms, contract forms, advertising, etc. are not needed at this time. 2) That in providing estimates of cost, financial analyses, economic feasibility projections, and schedules for the project, the Engineer has no control over cost or price of labor and materials; unknown or latent conditions of existing equipment or structures that may affect operation or maintenance costs; competitive bidding procedures and market conditions; time or quality of performance by third parties; quality, type, management, or direction of operating personnel; and other economic and operational factors that may materially affect the ultimate project cost and schedule. Therefore, the Engineer makes no warranty that the City's actual Project costs, economic feasibility, or schedules will not vary from the Engineer's opinions, analyses, projections, or estimates. 3) The design work on this Project will last 2 months from effective date of this Agreement. Any extension of the Project schedule by the City will require an increase in the fee. 4) Specifications will be incorporated into drawings as much as possible and descriptive specifications will be bound with the drawings. 5) Profile drawings of the full alignment of the reclaimed pipeline are not required. 6) Any land acquisition and identification of property owners will be managed by City. 7) The design will be based upon existing geotechnical reports developed for the wastewater treatment plant and supplied by the City. 8) If any traffic control plans are needed they will be developed and submitted by Contractor. 9) Application for any necessary construction and other required permits will be prepared and submitted by either the City or the Contractor, .e.g., storm water permits and erosion and sedimentation control plan and all other required permits. CITY HALL ® 630 EAST HOPKINS ® SAN MARCOS, TExAS 78666 ® 512.393.8150 ® FACSIMILE 855.759 -2846 SANMARCOSTX.GOV W