Public Works Committee advances multiple Lee's Summit infrastructure contracts and a bridge engineering modification

The Lee's Summit Public Works Committee on Tuesday recommended that the City Council approve several infrastructure contracts and one engineering-services modification, including work on the Raintree bridge and citywide curb repairs.

Kim Ward, staff engineer with Public Works, presented Modification No. 1 to the professional engineering agreement with Great River Engineering for the Raintree bridge repair, saying the change “will add construction engineering services” and allow Great River Engineering “to act in the City's behalf having a daily on-site field inspector to inspect the hydro demolition of the bridge as it progresses.” The modification increases the agreement by $64,605 to a revised not-to-exceed total of $137,385. The committee voted to advance the item to council by roll call (Chair — aye; Vice Chair Rader — aye; Council member Hodges — aye).

Ward also introduced the Raintree Spillway Bridge Deck Rehabilitation Project (Project No. 1093). She said the project, designed by Great River Engineering, received two bids and that Concrete Strategies LLC was the lowest responsible bidder at $1,161,870.65; primary work includes hydro demolition of the deck, cleaning exposed reinforcement, guardrail installation and utility conduit repair or replacement. The committee voted to advance the contract award to council (Chair — aye; Vice Chair Rader — aye; Council member Hodges — aye).

Project manager Ben Schmager described the curb replacement contract for FY 2026 (Project No. 888), explaining it is the city's annual program to replace poor-performing concrete curb that was originally placed in the 1980s–2006 era. He said four firms downloaded bid documents but only one bid — from Freeman Concrete Construction LLC — was responsive; the other bidder was declared nonresponsive because required forms were submitted incorrectly. The committee voted to advance the award to Freeman for $3,395,895 and to authorize the city manager to execute the agreement (Chair — aye; Vice Chair Rader — aye; Council member Hodges — aye).

On a separate pavement item, the committee approved a change order to the FY 2025 crack-seal construction agreement with Pavement Management LLC that reduces the contract price by $5,093.55 (revising the total to $291,906.45) and extends the project timeline by 162 calendar days. Staff said the time extension reflects weather-driven delays (snow and street-salting that prevented application because the sealant is temperature- and surface-dependent); staff restarted the work April 9 and completed the remaining 16 workable days between April 9 and May 23.

Finally, the committee recommended awarding RFQ No. 2025-051 for on-call environmental professional engineering services to Stearns, Conrad and Schmidt Consulting Engineers Inc., doing business as SCS Engineers, for a one-year contract with four optional one-year renewals. Dave Lowe, engineering manager, said there is no single budget line for the on-call agreement; instead, projects that require those services will fund individual task orders from their own project budgets. That item was advanced to council by roll call (Chair — aye; Vice Chair Rader — aye; Council member Hodges — aye).

All committee actions were recommendations to the full City Council; no final contract executions for these items occur until council approval and the city manager's signature.