Durham eyes $7.2m design ceiling for South Durham reclamation plant upgrade

Durham eyes $7.2m design ceiling for South Durham reclamation plant upgradeDurham’s October 8 work-session agenda includes a $5.16 million amendment for final design, permitting and bidding services at the South Durham Water Reclamation Facility. The proposed amendment would substantially expand McKim & Creed’s existing contract for tertiary-filter replacement and other process rehabilitation work.

The proposed Amendment No. 1 would add $5,162,857 to McKim & Creed’s Contract No. 21869.

The revised professional-services contract value would be $6,688,857.

Durham proposes adding $363,686 in contingency, bringing total contingency to $516,286, including $152,600 of unused original contingency.

The requested authority would set a total contract-and-contingency ceiling of $7,205,143.

Durham City Council has placed a proposed $5.16 million design amendment for the South Durham Water Reclamation Facility on its October 8 work-session agenda, positioning the city to advance tertiary-filter replacement and miscellaneous process rehabilitation work at the wastewater plant. The proposed Amendment No. 1 to Contract No. 21869 with McKim & Creed would cover final design, permitting and bidding services for the project. If authorized, it would raise the consultant’s contract from its original level to a revised total of $6,688,857. The agenda also calls for $363,686 of additional contingency funding. Together with $152,600 in unused original contingency, this would bring the contingency allocation to $516,286. The requested authorization would allow the City Manager to negotiate and execute further amendments, provided the original contract and all amendments do not exceed $7,205,143, including contingency. The reclamation-facility item was listed among the Water Management Department’s consent-calendar business and was not pulled for discussion in the available meeting transcript. It remained pending following the October 8 work session. The same Water Management agenda includes a separate proposed construction award of up to $5,137,531 to Carolina Civilworks Inc. for the Duke University Road/North Driver Street waterline replacement, with a proposed $513,753 contingency. That authorization would establish a combined ceiling of $5,651,284 for the waterline work. The McKim & Creed amendment is the larger of the two proposed water-management professional-services actions and would move the South Durham facility programme into final design, permitting and bidding.