Placement: Consent Agenda
Action Requested: Motion / Vote
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Award Contract #20210012 for the Purchase of Sensor Floats for Residential Grinder Systems.
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Submitted By: Robyn Holder, CPPB, Procurement Management Department (PMD).
Strategic Plan Link: The City's Goal of high-quality infrastructure and facilities.
Summary Brief (Agreements/Contracts only)
1. Prepared by: Robyn Holder, CPPB (PMD).
2. Parties: City of Port St. Lucie and Alpha General Services, Inc.
3. Purpose: To purchase mercury-activated, narrow-angle float switches designed to activate pump control panels & alarms.
4. New/Renewal/Modified: New.
5. Duration: 2 years with the option to renew for 2 additional 2-year periods.
6. Benefits to Port St. Lucie: Minimize the float failure rate & have a 5-year warranty.
7. Cost to Port St. Lucie (Annual and Potential): $30.00 per float. The estimated annual expenditure is under $1,000,000. Future expenditures will be as identified in the appropriated annual budget.
Presentation Information: N/A.
Staff Recommendation: Move that the Council award Contract #20210012 and enter into a unit price contract with Alpha General Services, Inc. for the supply of Sensor Floats.
Alternate Recommendations:
1. Move that the Council amend the recommendation and award Contract #20210012.
2. Move that the Council not approve Contract #20210012 and provide staff with direction.
Background: In 2006 the Utility Systems Department (USD) made a switch from Anchor Scientific Floats to Conery Floats for the residential grinder systems. Over the years the USD has worked with Conery to identify manufacturing issues that may have contributed to premature float failures. The USD worked with Conery and Myers/Pentair, the supplier of the residential grinder systems, to resolve those issues (cord continuity failure, lead (composite weight corrosion, jute removal, ants eating the cords). The USD continued to monitor the float replacement trend as some failures were due t...
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