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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 6008011 for Project DWS-981 with Major Contracting Group for Sewer Improvements in Hubbard Farms and North Corktown for a total contract amount not-to-exceed $8,510,000.00 and a term of two (2) 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 July 15, 2026
Item No. 2026-164
Contract No. 6008011/ DWS-981
Contractor: Major Contracting Group (DBB, DHB)
Contractor Address: 12222 Greenfield Road, Detroit, MI 48227
Contract Amount: $8,510,000.00
Contract Term: Two (2) years
TO: The Honorable
Board of Water Commissioners
City of Detroit, Michigan
FROM: Gary Brown, Director
Water and Sewerage Department
RE: Proposed DWSD Contract 6008011/ DWS-981
Sewer Improvement in Hubbard Farms and North Corktown
Major Contracting Group
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 6008011 for Project DWS-981 with Major Contracting Group for Sewer Improvements in Hubbard Farms and North Corktown for a total contract amount not-to-exceed $8,510,000.00 and a term of two (2) years. This also authorizes the Director to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND / JUSTIFICATION
This contract provides for the in-place rehabilitation of selected sewers primarily using the procedures, methods, and equipment of the cured-in-place pipelining process, Pipe Bursting, full segment replacements, installing new manholes, repairing sewers, and point repairs by the open-cut method of excavating the damaged portion of the pipeline and replacing it with new piping. The existing Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) sewer system...
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