Atlanta panel backs four-month, $27.22 million watershed engineering-contract extension

Atlanta’s City Utilities Committee unanimously recommended Sept. 29 a substitute extending six watershed architectural, engineering, design and construction-management agreements for four months, from Oct. 15, 2026, through Feb. 14, 2027, with up to $27,222,427.19 in additional aggregate funding.

The agenda version of ordinance 26-O-1536 proposed twelve months through Oct. 14, 2027, and a $20 million additional-funding ceiling. The recommended substitute shortens the proposed term while increasing that ceiling.

The six consultant teams provide task-order services for capital-improvement projects. The supporting text says replacement contracts were not expected to be awarded and transitioned before the existing agreements expire Oct. 14, and warns that an interruption could disrupt ongoing and urgent projects.

The substitute would waive applicable procurement source-selection provisions to authorize the amendments. The recorded action is a committee recommendation, not an executed extension; the minutes list Oct. 5 at 1 p.m. as the next checkpoint.