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The Board of Water Commissioners for the City of Detroit, Water and Sewerage Department authorizes the Director to approve DWSD Contract 6004687 with Underground Infrastructure Services for Hydro Excavation Services for a total contract amount not-to-exceed $154,000 and a term of three (3) years. This also authorizes the Director to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
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Agenda of August 17, 2022
Item No. 22-0892
Contract No. 6004687
Contractor: Underground Infrastructure Services, 12119 Levan Road, Livonia, MI 48150
Contract Amount: $154,000
Contract Term: 8/18/22 - 8/17/25 (3 years)
TO: The Honorable
Board of Water Commissioners
City of Detroit, Michigan
FROM: Gary Brown, Director
Water and Sewerage Department
RE: Proposed DWSD Contract 6004687
Hydro Excavation Services
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Marqaicha Welch, Procurement Manager, the Board of Water Commissioners for the City of Detroit, Water and Sewerage Department authorizes the Director to approve DWSD Contract 6004687 with Underground Infrastructure Services for Hydro Excavation Services in Detroit for a total contract amount not-to-exceed $154,000 and a term of three (3) years. This also authorizes the Director to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND / JUSTIFICATION
The State of Michigan's Lead and Copper rule requires that communities around the state turn in a "Complete Inventory" to EGLE. The purpose of this inventory is to show where lead and copper service lines are throughout around Michigan. At first, accomplishing this task would have meant digging up every stop box in Detroit and reporting our findings. Thanks to an update of the rule, Detroit can still satisfy the requirement with far fewer excavations. Excavations and machine learning will be used to build a predictive model of where lead and copper line are throughout the city. Instead of 300,000+ ex...
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