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Dept/ Agency: Administration/Office of the Business Administrator
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Professional Service Contract
Purpose: Architectural services for design and construction of a new Municipal Park located between Mulberry Street and the western edge of McCarter Highway ("Triangle Park")
Entity Name: Sage and Coombe Architects, LLP.
Entity Address: 12-16 Vestry Street, 5th Floor, New York, New York 10013
Contract Amount: An amount not to exceed $1,704,592.00
Funding Source: Capital Funds
Contract Period: August 15, 2016 through August 14, 2017
Contract Basis: ( ) Bid ( ) State Vendor (X) Prof. Ser. ( ) EUS
( ) Fair & Open ( ) No Reportable Contributions ( ) RFP ( ) RFQ
( ) Private Sale ( ) Grant ( ) Sub-recipient ( ) n/a
Additional Information:
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WHEREAS, the City of Newark wishes to enter into a Professional Services contract with Sage and Coombe Architects, LLP, 12-16 Vestry Street 5th Floor, New York, New York 10013 for the purpose of providing architectural services for design and construction of a new Municipal Park located between Mulberry Street and the western edge of McCarter Highway ("Triangle Park"), as more specifically set forth in the contract attached hereto and made a part thereof; and
WHEREAS, the above-referenced Professional Services are exempt from the public bidding requirements of the Local Public Contracts Law, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:11-5(1)(a)(i), because these services are to be rendered by a person (or persons) authorized by law to practice a recognized profession, whose practice is regulated by law, and the performance of which services requires knowledge of an advanced type in a field of learning acquired by a prolonged formal course of specialized instruction and study as distinguished from general academic instruction; and
WHEREAS, the Local Public Contracts...
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