Jim Donchess
Mayor e City of Nashua
To: Finance Committee
From: James Donchess, Mayor — Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director
Date: May 6, 2019
Re: Notice of Change in Contract for AECOM Engineering Services Relative to Studying
Passenger Rail
The Office of Economic Development engaged AECOM Engineering due to its professional and
unique acumen relative to rail services expertise and knowledge specifically in the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but also with its familiarity with the State of New
Hampshire’s plan.
We engaged AECOM in an effort to position ourselves to help bring passenger rail services to
the City of Nashua in the spring of 2018 and after the creation of the local transit rail committee.
The contract is written to allow for scope specific on-call services as necessary to help bring
forward or analyze certain ideas and concepts or to provide technical assistance as necessary. We
engaged AECOM in a yearlong contract not to exceed $100,000 and to date we have only
committed $24,930 out of the $100,000.
This memo is being provided to update and provide notice to the Finance Committee that
AECOM’s contract is set to expire and is being extended to July 1, 2020.
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