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Dollar Limit Increase to the Term Contract for Coated Steel Pipe for the Energy Resources Department (Single Response) (Citywide)
This contract provides various linear feet of 2’’, 4’’, 6’’, 8’’ 10’’, and 12’’ domestic coated steel pipe and Powercrete J liquid epoxy kits for natural gas projects. The upcoming 2025 projects are the Broadway Road Improvements Project, Gantzel Road, Arizona Farms Road and the Val Vista Drive to Pueblo to the US 60 Project. While these projects may have been planned when this contract was awarded in 2022, the specific pipe size and quantities needed to complete the project were not yet known.
Materials for natural gas projects are ordered separately from the construction contract. Natural gas construction is heavily regulated, including the type of materials that can be used and precise record keeping of when the materials were purchased and where they were used in the natural gas system. In addition, Energy Resources has found that ordering the materials in-house has created savings by eliminating additional costs added for contractor storage, profit, and overhead.
This is a dollar limit increase to provide contract capacity for these projects and funding is already provided for in the budget.
The Energy Resources Department and Procurement Services recommend increasing the dollar limit with Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co., Inc. by $2,000,000, from $2,500,000 to $4,500,000 for the current contract year.