Council action to award a contract to Burns & McDonnell in the amount of $120,101.00 to cover Substation S site study for the Power & Light Department.

IPL staff recommends issuing contract to Burns & McDonnell for these services.

Northpoint is a very large development in the Northeast section of the city where several large warehouses and strip shopping is planned over the next several years. Groundbreaking ceremonies for the first two buildings is scheduled for mid-November 2022. The ultimate electric demand for this development may exceed 20 megawatts and will result in the need to build an additional substation in the development. This area is near Lake City and as this project moves forward additional developments may occur to the extent that the area electrical demand may reach near 80 megawatts.

The city is negotiating with Northpoint for all infrastructure requirements and one of which is the selection of s proposed IPL substation site. Northpoint has tentatively selected a site that is an irregular shape close to the roundabout near Lake City. To determine if the site is suitable for a substation, a site study is needed to evaluate the site for compatibility for placing an electrical substation at the selected location from the physical size, electrical configuration, and environmental aspects. The study will review the electrical configuration requirements to satisfactorily serve the anticipated load now and in the future. If the site is suitable, negotiations can proceed with securing the site, if not, negotiations will move to an alternate site.

Burns & McDonnell is an approved A/E vendor and contract and proposal documents have been reviewed and approved by COI legal and Finance staff. Burns & McDonnell selected as they have been performing transmission planning studies for IPL for several years, have the skill sets, software, and systems in place to provide the required site study efficiently and economically.

IPL System Operations, T & D, Environmental Health and Safety and Engineering as well as IPL Management concur with the selection of Burns a& McDonnel and agree with the scope of work contained in the proposal.

The substation S site study is scheduled for completion in early 2023.

The fiscal impact to the City is the $120,101 not to exceed amount of the contract. Funding for the Substation S Site Study is included in the fiscal 2023 adopted CIP budget for department 6160, project # 202316, page number 204.