Travis County Commssioners Court
March 9, 2004
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Item 17
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>> ... Authorization to modify a contract up to $50,000. And you'll have given me $25,000. And this one exceeds $25,000 and the law also says that only the Commissioners court can increase a contract by 25 -- by 25%, but no one else can. So you are modifying this contract a third time and it exceeds the 25%. We have now modified this contract about 54%.
>> the 54% stood out. Changes against this contract represent a cumulative increase of 54% over the original amount and the reason for that is what additional services did we --
>> if you will recall, our bids for precinct 3 came in substantially over budge and what we have done is gone back and got the engineer to do some redesign, value engineering to bring the project back within the budget.
>> okay, so this is the engineering part.
>> this is the engineering part.
>> of the contract that we required additional services from, and the reason was we required additional work to try to get the contract amount down under budget.
>> the construction contract, correct.
>> okay. Anything further?
>> second.
>> approved by Commissioner Daugherty, seconded by Commissioner Gomez. All in favor? That passes by unanimous vote.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 9, 2004 6:57 PM