Placement: Consent Agenda
Action Requested: Motion / Vote
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Approve Contract #20240084 for the Immediate Need to Install a New Pedestrian Bridge at Veterans Park at Rivergate.
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Submitted By: Robyn Holder, CPPB, Procurement Management Division (PMD).
Strategic Plan Link: The City's Goal of high-quality infrastructure and facilities.
Summary Brief (Agreements/Contracts only)
1. Prepared by: Robyn Holder, CPPB (PMD).
2. Parties: City of Port St. Lucie and Brothers' Construction, Inc.
3. Purpose: To install a pedestrian bridge to connect the Riverwalk boardwalks.
4. New/Renewal/Modified: New.
5. Duration: Approximately sixty (60) calendar days with no option to renew.
6. Benefits to Port St. Lucie: The existing pedestrian bridge access (sidewalk) needs repair as the banks of the canal are deteriorating. A delay in replacing the pedestrian bridge access could cause safety concerns.
7. Cost to Port St. Lucie (Annual and Potential): One-time expenditure of $532,730.20.
Presentation Information: N/A.
Staff Recommendation: Move that the Council waive the bidding, per Chapter 35.08(c), for good cause shown, and approve Contract #20240084 for the immediate need to install a new pedestrian bridge at Veterans Park at Rivergate with Brothers' Construction, Inc.
Alternate Recommendations:
1. Move that the Council amend the recommendation and approve Contract #20240084.
2. Move that the Council not approve Contract #20240084 and provide staff with direction.
Background: The Port District Master Plan, adopted in July 2021, proposed a pedestrian bridge connection from Veterans Park at Rivergate to the Promenade, a mixed-use development. The pedestrian bridge being re-purposed was initially installed on Floresta Drive and provided pedestrian access across the Elkcam Waterway.
Brothers' Construction, Inc. is currently mobilized at The Port repairing fire damage to the south boardwalk. Approving the immediate sourcing for this contract would offer the City mo...
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