Council action to award change order #1 to P.O. 23000264 to Burns & McDonnell in the amount of $12,000.00 to cover additional transmission engineering requirements for the Power & Light Department.

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

Existing contract and PO with Burns & McDonnell for general transmission planning support for fiscal 2023 calls for a not to exceed amount of $49,000.00. As of the end of April 2023 invoices totaling $40,883.84 have been approved and paid, leaving a balance of $8,116.16. Activities in this functional area have increased substantially over Fiscal 2023 sufficiently to expect additional costs to be incurred through June 2023 to total $61,0000.00. The request for an increase in the not to exceed amount of $12,000.00 will bring the new not to exceed amount on the contract and PO to $61,000.00.

The contract and PO with Burns & McDonnell is for miscellaneous transmission engineering and operational support, reporting requirements to the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) and general responses to SPP data requests. It also covers additional transmission planning studies as required to support IPL transmission system improvements. SPP has been increasing their requests for information every year to respond to market needs and this year is no exception. One such project is the studies required to determine impact of Substation M outage to allow the replacement of transmission breakers that are at end of life.

Burns & McDonnell is an approved A/E vendor and have been supplying these services to IPL for several years, have the skill sets, software, and systems in place to provide the required support efficiently and economically. IPL System Operations concurs with the use of Burns & McDonnell for these services.

The requested services are to be performed and included in fiscal 2023.

The fiscal impact to the city totals $61,000. The original amount for the transmission planning support was $49,000. Funding for the transmission planning support is included in the fiscal year 2022-23 adopted budget, page 238, account number 6160-5226, Engineering – Professional Services, IPL Fund 20.