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Resolution - Approval of Engineering Master Services Contracts - B Gedrich
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Submitted By: Renee Oelschleger on behalf of Brian Gedrich
Department: Engineering
Financial Impact and Cost/Benefit Considerations: Expenditure of Cooperative funds in amounts not to exceed $25 million for substation and transmission services and $50 million for distribution services. Amounts to be included in the Cooperative’s 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 budgets).
Discussion
Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Inc. maintains an annual Capital Improvement Plan specifying electric system improvement projects. For these projects, the Cooperative regularly contracts with outside consultants to engineer, design, and stake the electric system improvement projects. The Cooperative also uses consultants to provide various engineering studies, inspections, and compliance analysis. The Cooperative issued a request for qualifications for qualified consultants to complete a variety of engineering services on an as-needed basis. The selection of the approved consultants was based on a review of qualifications, references, and previous PEC experience.
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE COOPERATIVE, that the Cooperative approve master services agreements with engineering consultants for distribution services in an aggregate amount not to exceed $50 million and master services agreements for substation and transmission services in an aggregate amount not to exceed $25 million and that the funding of each type of services does not exceed the amounts for each type of services for an anticipated period of five years.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chief Executive Officer or designee is hereby authorized to take such actions as needed to implement this resolution.