Firm Chosen For Cameron Street Bridge Design

Monday, June 18, 2007 03:59 AM

The Supply and Services office at Prince George City Hall has made a choice on who it thinks should get the contract for the professional services related to the design and construction of the Cameron Street Bridge.

Associated Engineering.

The company has offices in Burnaby and Kelowna, as well as 6 in Alberta, some in Saskatchewan and Southern Ontario.

If the company’s name sounds familiar, this is the same company which was the engineering firm hired by the Ministry of Transportation in B.C. for the twinning of the John Hart Bridge.

Although all three companies which had made the short list scored well when it came to capability (experience) and “methodology” (including schedule for work, the quality of the overall plan and any innovative considerations) it was the high marks for the company’s fee schedule that put it over the top.

Not only did Associated Engineering propose the lowest fees, it also proposed a $20 thousand dollar reduction in their fees providing the City accepted a fix fee arrangement.

The budget for the professional fees for the design and construction of the Cameron Street Bridge is $600 thousand dollars, and the proposal from Associated came in at $540 thousand.

The fees proposed by other two companies are as follows:

Klohn Crippen Berger $741,000

Delcan $929,600

According to the Schedule for the Completion of Design presented to Prince George City Council earlier this year, the next step in the Cameron Street Bridge project would see the contract for the design signed. That would be followed by the development of the design and a tender package for construction. That could take until late October of this year.

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Posted by: lunarguy on June 18 2007 6:21 AM

Now as I hear it though we do not actually have the dollars in place for this to proceed ? Do you really think the prov / fed government will come forward with money once the bridge is built ?

Posted by: Palopu on June 18 2007 10:28 AM

Since when would this Council be concerned as to whether it had the money or not.

(a) The Alternate Approval Process Form Bylaw NO. 7970 has until June 25th, if there were 5535 people who signed this form the City would have to take this issue to referendum, however you can see from the foregoing that they have no doubt the necessary signatures will not be forthcoming and they are going ahead as if it is not an issue.

(b) If the City does not get the money from the Federal Government $1Million and the Provincial Government $1Million then I am betting that they will borrow the amount that they need from the Northern Trust Initiative, or get it from the Teresan Gas Fund, or some other devious way that will circumvent the standard procedures for this type of project.

(c) If you factor in the $190,000.00 for checking out the old cement piers, and the $524,000.00 for the design and construction of the **new** hybride bridge, you would get $734,000.00 which is $10,000.00 more than the structural engineer in 2005 said it would take to repair and resurface the old bridge.

(d) We are going to lose the old *Heritage* bridge, spend $9.5 Million on a new **Hybride** monstrosity bridge, plus $4 Million for interest for a total of $13.5 Million plus God knows how much on overruns etc; and guess what. At the end of the day there will be no more traffic on this bridge than when they closed it. ie; 8000 vehicles per day 12% trucks. (I suspect these numbers are inflated)

This venture shows a total lack of interest by this City in fiscal responsibility, the need to save some Heritage structures, and apparently an inability to understand the traffic numbers surrounding this bridge.

Posted by: Chadermando on June 18 2007 2:40 PM

Our federal and provincial elected politicians are silent on this issue because they support the home tax for their constituents to pay for esential infrastrucutre for provincial and federal trade via the new container port. Elected politicians get brownie points with their party handlers by passing the bill to their constituent home owners rather than upsetting the big boys budget.