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<br />U []!]@[ff3TlDDfBTl/lJ!XJ <br />@@!XJ[1JO[g)@!XJ <br /> <br />Executive Committee Agenda Item #7a <br />NCDA Agenda Item #2ci <br /> <br />June 30, 2005 <br /> <br />MEMO TO: NCDA Executive Committee / Capital Budget Committee <br />NCDA <br /> <br />FROM: Staff <br /> <br />RE: Amendment #1 to the Rail Passenger Capital Improvements Engineering <br />Agreement with BNSF <br /> <br />At its June 2, 2005 meeting, the NCDA approved the Rail Passenger Capital Improvements <br />Engineering Agreement with BNSF. Pursuant to the agreement with the NCDA, BNSF will retain <br />engineering consultants to perform engineering services, provide oversight and necessary flagging <br />services, prepare and complete the advanced and final designs, prepare cost estimates, and <br />prepare all bid packages. The contract specified the twenty-one capacity improvements that will <br />be included in advanced and final design, but the contract maximum did not include the entire <br />costs of engineering track improvements #11, 12, 13, 14 and 16. As noted in the memorandum <br />dated May 27, 2005, contract amendments increasing the contract maximum are necessary to <br />pay the costs of engineering these additional or revised track improvements. The contract <br />maximum did not include the costs of engineering these improvements, because BNSF had not <br />completed its contract negotiations with its engineering consultant. BNSF entered into the <br />Agreement on the express condition that the contract be amended to include the additional funds <br />necessary to cover the costs of engineering the improvements. Note that once preliminary <br />engineering is complete on the track improvements, the Agreement will need to be amended again <br />to include services and costs relating to the design of the signal improvements. <br /> <br />The budget for the proposed amendment is $168,900 and is within the NCDA's budget for <br />advanced and final design. As required by the FTA, staff are preparing an independent cost <br />estimate. If the NCDA does not approve Amendment #1, the entire agreement is null and void. <br /> <br />Action Requested: <br /> <br />That the Executive Committee / Capital Budget Committee recommends <br />that the NCDA authorize the chair to execute Amendment #1 to the Rail <br />Passenger Capital Improvements Engineering Agreement with BNSF, <br />increasing the contract maximum by $168,900. <br /> <br />Northstar Corridor Development Authority <br />21003' Avenue. Anoka. Minnesota 55303-2265 (763) 323-5700 Fax: (763) 323-56x2 ww\v.northstartrain.org <br />