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File #: 26-028    Version: 1
Type: Environmental & Utility Services Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 12/15/2025 In control: City Council
On agenda: 1/13/2026 Final action:
Title: Approval of a Design-Build Contract with Jacobs Project Management Co. for the Additional Digester Facility Upgrade Project at the San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility.
Attachments: 1. Memorandum, 2. Agreement

...Title

Approval of a Design-Build Contract with Jacobs Project Management Co. for the Additional Digester Facility Upgrade Project at the San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility.

...Recommendations

(a) Approve the design-build contract with Jacobs Project Management Co. for the Additional Digester Facility Upgrade Project at the San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility in an amount not to exceed $9,542,366 for the performance of preliminary services under the contract, subject to the appropriation of funds.

(b) Approve a design contingency in the amount of $954,237 for City-approved changes to the scope of Preliminary Services.

(c) Adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager or her designee to:

 (1) Negotiate and execute separate amendments to the contract to allow Jacobs Project Management Co. to proceed with discrete portions of the design-build work (referred to as “Early Work Packages”) prior to the City’s execution of the definitive contract amendment in an amount not to exceed $10,000,000, which amounts will be subject to the base guaranteed maximum price and to the appropriation of funds.

 (2) Negotiate and execute change orders in excess of $100,000 up to the amount of the approved contingency for changes to the scope of the preliminary services and/or Early Work Packages.

(d) Adopt the following 2025-2026 appropriation ordinance amendments in the San José-Santa Clara Treatment Plant Capital Fund:

 (1) Increase the Additional Digester Upgrades appropriation to the Environmental Services Department by $661,000; and

 (2) Decrease the Switchgear S2/S2A Replacement appropriation to the Environmental Services Department by $661,000.

CEQA: Not a Project, File No. PP17-007, Preliminary direction to staff and eventual action requires approval from decision-making body. Council District 4. (Environmental Services/Public Works/City Manager)