Additional Response provided by Sabas Avila, Interim Director of Public Works:
1. No, we do not always have to increase an IDIQ contract for payments. Item 10 is necessary to make final payment and close the old Lonestar Paving contract originally awarded in 2017 and effective through March 2021. The contract included indefinite quantities with an “estimated” total cost of $2.8 M. The final quantities exceeded the “estimated” amount. So, the change order finalizes all quantities in order to make final payment and close the contract.
2. This is the same contractor that broke a small, low-hanging branch in front of a citizen's house. Since this issue, the City is pre-trimming all low-hanging tree limbs that do not meet minimum code height requirements prior to paving work. Based on the City’s experience with other paving contractors, this contractor performs superior paving work.
3. No. The prices reflected on this change order represent the same prices in the original 2017 contract.