Utilities Coordination. If field investigation requires any subsurface exploration (digging, boring, and/or drilling), A-E shall provide utility notice coordination with the utility companies through Underground Service Alert (USA) prior to A-E beginning any field works.
Utilities Coordination the Consultant shall provide the following services: • Utility shall mean any water, irrigation, sanitary, storm, gas, electric, fibre optic, cables, pipelines or any other utility associated with the Project comprising the Programme. • The Consultant shall administer, negotiate, and perform all tasks necessary to obtain any and all utility permits. • The Consultant shall attend any required meetings with the utility agencies personnel to review schedule, scope, and cost adjustment, or relocations of any kind. Furthermore, the Consultant shall confer and coordinate with utilities; produce minutes and reports. • Consultant will review, monitor and report on the progress of all Permit and Public Utility Applications, and, the status and Schedules of all such Application Approvals, planned interconnections, and Issuance of all Permits and Approvals.
Utilities Coordination. The original contract provided scope and budget for 20 hours of project engineer coordination effort in the form of conference calls, emails, and trans mittal of design drawings (60% and 90%) with the following utilities. To date, the Consultant has utilized approximately seven (7) hours to initiate contact with Puget Sound Energy (PSE), Comcas t, and Lumen to distribute the 60% plans and begin coordination, as well as consider design options to address water and sewer utilities, which are operated by the City of Tumwater Task 700. Assum pt ions • The project engineer will provide up to three (3) hours of comment resolution effort to the utility’s 60% comments. • Concurrent with the CRM meeting described in Task 800 to address general 60% design deliverable comments, an additional half-hour will be provided for the project engineer to review water and sewer utility comment responses with the utility owners. The project engineer will provide up to one (1) hour of agenda preparation and meeting follow-up documentation. The City will provide any appropriate staff. • The project engineer will attend one (1) meeting with the natural gas and underground/ overhead electrical and telecommunication utility providers, one (1) hour duration, to discuss comments regarding the proposed 60% plans, as well as and coordinate utility protection, adjustment, and/ or disconnection during construction. The project engineer will provide up to one (1) hour of agenda preparation and meeting follow- up documentation. The City will provide appropriate staff. • The remaining project engineer effort will be utilized for utility coordination effort as described by the original contract scope of work. • The City will provide water and sanitary sewer utility adjustment and/ or temporary relocation design. • PSE (power and natural gas), and all telecommunication utility purveyors will provide utility adjustment and/ or temporary relocation design. • The City and other utility purveyors will provide one (1) round of comments on the 60% design. Task 700. Deliver xxxxx • Meeting Agendas for both meetings in electronic PDF format. • Meeting follow up documentation for both meetings in electronic PDF format TASK 800. 90% PLANS, SPEC IFICATIONS, AND ESTIMATE The original contract scoped 90% design efforts based on an unders tanding of a narrower street cross- section, shorter walls, no stormwater conveyance or management facilities, or significant utility coordination. As discussed in the pre...
