A resolution approving a proposed Agreement between the City and County of Denver and AECOM Technical Services, Inc. for on-call engineering services. Approves a three-year $2.5 million contract with AECOM for on-call professional services including traffic, transportation, bicycle and pedestrian, multimodal, parking, civil, water resources, survey, geotechnical, material testing, construction management, environmental, and various mobility-related services (201629353). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 9-26-16. The Committee approved filing this resolution by consent on 8-11-16.
Okay. Great. We have each for a vote for 626 and new for question in 759. All right. Madam Secretary, I think we will start with Ortega's bills in a block that we'll deal with. And Councilman Ortega. I will let you start to. Talk about what you want to do with this. Thank you. These are on call contracts. We have 12 of them. Each of them are $2.5 million. They total $30 million. And we have gotten into a practice in the city of using on call contracts, some of which may never even be utilized. So I think one of the things that is important for this body to see is how many of them are being utilized, how frequently are they utilized? What's the total amount that each of them have spent and to know annually how much money are we going to spend on these various contracts? My first year that I came back to counsel, we had 15 $4 million in contracts, and I learned that in a given year we were only going to be spending $2 million in IT contracts. We spend more way more than that now. But I think to ensure that we're getting the information that we need, it's important to. You know, use this platform to be able to ask for the information. And so yeah, and I routinely do that when we have these put forth on consent calendars as all of these are tonight. But it's not routine information that we get. I have asked that we include that on these on call contracts on a regular basis, but we don't always receive that. So I'm calling these out to vote no as a just using the bully pulpit as a way to start insisting that this kind of information be made available on a regular and consistent basis. Each of these contracts tonight are for traffic, transportation, bicycle and pedestrian, multimodal parking, civil water resources survey, geotechnical material testing, construction management, environmental and various mobility related services. You know, it's not clear if any of these are directly related to our Denver Wright process, which is going on, which is looking at a variety of planning efforts. We've got four different plans going on. We do have contracts with companies that are working with the city as consultants. And I, if I remember correctly, that equaled somewhere in the ballpark of $9 million. So I'm not sure how this interfaces with that. So I'm just calling them all out to vote no tonight. Thank you, Mr. President. Okay. Thank you. You know, we need to put this on the floor. So, Councilman Gilmore, will you please put these 12 bills on the floor for adoption? Yes, Mr. President. I move in a block that resolutions 575, 71, five, 72, five, 73, five, 74, five, 75, five, 76, five, 77, five, 78, five, 79, five, 80 and 581 be adopted. It has been moved and seconded by Councilman Flynn. Councilman Flynn, do you ever. Can I just a point of order or procedure? With the new system, we were told that we can only do one block vote per meeting, so we might have to do all 12 of these separately. We're going to go ahead and do this as a bloc. We can do a consent, vote for other items. It will work. Out. It will. Okay. I just wanted to raise Resa. Thank you. Always a stickler for procedure. I like it. We got that. We got that taken care of. And I wanted to give Angela Casey us the opportunity to respond as well. Yeah, hi. Angela Casey is from Denver Public Works. And I want to just to confirm with Councilwoman Ortega that we have heard the council loud and clear on this issue. We have created a report and will be rolling that out and that will it will provide the information that you're looking for. All of the information that you mentioned this evening is. Is included in that. Report. And will we get that beforehand or that will always come after? This is something that will that we are we can give out monthly. We can give out quarterly. We can give it out at any time. Great. Okay. Thank you. Thanks for the clarification, Councilman Espinosa. Yeah. I just I wanted to thank Councilwoman Ortega for bringing up those concerns. And as Angela had mentioned, several have these sort of similar concerns from time to time. And so I will be abstaining because there's technically nothing wrong with the contracts. So it's not worth me voting no. But it is sort of it did strike me and it struck me as odd several times in from this day as to get, you know, it's a situation where you got, you know, 15 or 12 Swiss Army knives. And now rather than use the process to sort of find the right contractor for anything, it just seems like we just throw out this massive saying exactly. Worded contracts and then suddenly now you're picking and choosing it through a different means. And so I just would like to have better resolution on that. Just just for the record, I would like to just let you know that we do do a mini bid process for almost all of these contracts. So, I mean, this isn't something that we just arbitrarily throw out against the wall. Like we do have a process for each one of these bids. No, and I'm comfortable with that process. But the thing is, is when you do a specific task order or whatever the work order is for that, you then subsequently pay to each individual contractor. What is the criteria that you use to sort of allocate which contract goes to which of these several different providers doing the same thing . They each bid. On each. Project? Okay. So it's it's a seven bid process. This is like a pre-approval. Okay. Thank you, Angela. So we are going to vote now on this. Madam Secretary. Rocco. Ortega. Nope. Sussman. My black eye. Clark. All right. Espinosa. Staying. Flynn. I. Gillmor, I. Herndon. Cashman. I can. I knew. Mr. President. I. Please close the voting and announce the results. Ten eyes, one nay, one abstention. These 12 bills are adopted. Councilwoman Sussman, I'm sorry I missed you on. Okay. Did you want to add anything to this or. Well, let's a little out of order, but I will. When you're running a huge organization like the city, very often you have to get your. Yeah. You have to be prepared to be able to use contractors. And so the process for vetting possible vendors is an absolute, absolute necessity to be timely in your responses to what you need and then to have the when you do need their services to have it bid again, I think is a very good example of good stewardship of the city budget and I understand the interest in seeing what is spent. I am happy to see that they're going to send that back. That's all I want. Thank you. Thank you. Council on Assessment and council members. If I if I don't see you up on this new system, please just wave your hands in the air with them like you just don't care. Okay. Now we're going to pull up Resolution 547, Councilwoman Black for a comment.