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<br />ORD-2019-039 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: November 7, 2019 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 8-g <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Budget Amendment #2-C – Approval of an Intermediate Budget for the Link <br />Government Services Center Remediation Project <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager <br /> <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> <br />Travis Myren, 919-245-2308 <br />Steve Arndt, 919-245-2658 <br />Gary Donaldson, 919-245-2453 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />PURPOSE: To approve a budget amendment totaling $975,000 to fund an intermediate budget <br />for the Link Government Services Center Remediation Project. The intermediate budget would <br />fund the temporary relocation of building occupants while a final project scope is approved and <br />completed. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: The Link Government Services Center has experienced long term water <br />infiltration into the building envelope. A remediation project has been planned, and the project <br />has been let for bid twice. The first set of bids was deemed non-responsive because the <br />apparent low bidder declined to share information with the County that would have been <br />necessary to complete a comprehensive analysis of the bid. As a result, all bids were rejected <br />on September 5, 2019, and the bid specifications were modified to require the missing <br />information as a condition of the bid. <br /> <br />The second set of bids was received on September 25, 2019. However, these bids were also <br />rejected to afford the apparent low bidder an opportunity to establish a joint venture as a way to <br />comply with the bid requirements. <br /> <br />On October 20, 2019, moderate rainfall occurred at the Link Center and resulted in visible <br />quantities of water penetrating the interior of the building. During this same time, indoor air <br />quality tests began to indicate higher levels of biological contaminants compared to identical <br />tests taken throughout the prior year. These changing conditions warranted a root cause <br />analysis to confirm that the scope of the remediation project would correct the deficiencies that <br />were allowing the additional water penetration. <br /> <br />On October 24, 2019, an architect and building engineer performed a series of investigative <br />demolition cuts into the building’s cavity wall. According to the architect’s report, these cuts <br />1