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Trustees Approve Proposal For Firm To Observe Construction, Rehabilitation Work On


Mount Prospect Village Hall as seen in May 2018. (Journal photo)

Mount Prospect trustees unanimously accepted a proposal for a firm to observe the construction and rehabilitation work of another company on existing sewer main segments for an amount not to exceed $94,133.60.

The contract to complete the work was awarded to Hoerr Construction of Goodfield, IL. However, according to village documents, in order to monitor Hoerr’s work, the village needed another firm with “specific technical skills and experience. Specifically, technical monitoring of the pipe cleaning process, liner inversion, curing, material core laboratory analysis, and post-construction video review are some tasks required to successfully prosecute the project.”

Consulting engineers were asked to submit a technical proposal detailing the firm’s background, key personnel, and approach to the project. In addition, each firm was also asked to submit a separate cost proposal indicating work effort anticipated and a not-to-exceed fee. The required scope of work includes 25,000 linear feet of pipe ranging in diameter of 8-in. to 21-in. and an installation cost of $1,300,000. The locations of the proposed segments included in this year’s project scope are depicted on a village map.

Out of the requests for proposals (RFP) that the village received, the “highest-rated” and lowest cost was Baxter & Woodman, a firm that has done this type of work for the village over the last four years. Baxter & Woodman has staff members who are certified in NASCO PACP coding and with experience entering data into the village’s assessment database. “They have performed exceptionally well and understand the expectations of the village for a project of so much importance,” documents state.

In the current budget, funds have been requested to continue repairing the combined and separate sewer system by utilizing the cured-in-place-pipe (CIPP) process, which rehabilitates the existing sewer main segments by inserting a CIPP liner inside of the host pipe segment. According to the village, the village has been using this method since the 1970s and is more cost-effective and less disruptive than an open cut excavation of the pipes.

The village reviewed the 2015 study, “Combined Sewer System Evaluation” to identify which combined sewers needed repairs. As for the separate sanitary sewers that needed repairing, those were identified during the village’s in-house televising program which is part of the revised Inflow and Infiltration Control Program (IICP) and required by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDGC).

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