Placement: Consent Agenda
Action Requested: Motion / Vote
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Award Contract #20210016 for the Replacement of Lift Station SP-16 Construction Project.
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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 Felix Associates of Florida, Inc.
3. Purpose: Replace the aging infrastructure with a new station that is more efficient.
4. New/Renewal/Modified: New.
5. Duration: 150 calendar days with no option to renew.
6. Benefits to Port St. Lucie: Replace an under-sized station that was over 40 years old.
7. Cost to Port St. Lucie (Annual and Potential): One-time expense in the amount of $590,946.
Presentation Information: N/A.
Staff Recommendation: Move that the Council award Contract #20210016 and enter into a unit price contract with Felix Associates of Florida, Inc. for the replacement of Lift Station SP-16.
Alternate Recommendations:
1. Move that the Council amend the recommendation and award Contract #20210016.
2. Move that the Council not award Contract #20210016 and provide staff with direction.
Background: The SP-16 Lift Station was built over 40 years ago when there were only a few hundred homes in the area. Later, when the population grew 2 more lift stations were built. The 2 newer lift stations pumped into the same force main and delivered higher flows at higher pressures. They overpowered SP-16 and reduced its pumping rate causing it to overflow during heavy rains. To address the issue, the City built a new force main and is now proposing to build a new lift station to prevent this from occurring again.
The project consists of abandoning small sections of the exiting 6 inch force mains and low pressure mains at the site of the existing lift station. The new site for the proposed lift station will consist of in...
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