140HI334-25 T Brutus Award Letter.pdf

This is an award letter from the New York State Housing Trust Fund Corporation (HTFC) and the Office of Community Renewal to the Town of Brutus, New York, confirming a $1,500,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) award for manufactured home park improvements. The project involves the rehabilitation of sanitary sewer collection system infrastructure across three mobile home parks, including repair and replacement of manholes and both open-cut and trenchless cured-in-place lining of buried collector sewer piping. The Town of Brutus is seeking Design, Bidding and Construction Phase Engineering Services to develop design plans, specifications, and contract documents that meet New York State and funding agency requirements, secure necessary permits and regulatory approvals, provide bidding assistance, and conduct construction administration and observation. No work can be performed nor costs incurred prior to execution of a grant agreement with HTFC and completion of environmental review approval. The Office of Community Renewal will contact the Town shortly to outline procedures for advancing the award and satisfying grant agreement conditions.

The total project budget is $1,500,000, with $162,000 allocated for engineering services excluding construction observation and $90,000 budgeted for construction observation services. The project is fully funded by the $1,500,000 CDBG grant award. Firms selected for engineering services must demonstrate significant experience with sanitary sewer collection system engineering and a successful history of permitting and implementing CDBG-funded projects. The procurement includes contracting goals requiring 25 percent Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) participation, 25 percent Women Business Enterprise (WBE) participation, 15 percent Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business (SDVOB) participation, and 15 percent Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) participation. No business enterprises have been awarded identical or substantially similar procurement contracts by the Town within the past five years.