Placement: Consent Agenda
Action Requested: Motion / Vote
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Award Contract #20220068 for Botanical Garden Security Fence & Secret Garden Project to Custom Welding Diversified, Inc.
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Submitted By: Michelle Fentress, Procurement Agent I, Procurement Management Department (PMD).
Strategic Plan Link: The City's Goal of safe, clean, and beautiful.
Summary Brief (Agreements/Contracts only)
1. Prepared by: Michelle Fentress, Procurement Agent I, PMD.
2. Parties: City of Port St. Lucie and Custom Welding Diversified, Inc.
3. Purpose: To provide more security in controlling unwanted and unauthorized activities at the Botanical Garden.
4. New/Renewal/Modified: New.
5. Duration: This contract will be for ninety (90) calendar days, with no option to renew.
6. Benefits to Port St. Lucie: To aid in better protecting this facility from unwanted and unauthorized activities.
7. Cost to Port St. Lucie (Annual and Potential): One-time expense of $284,200.
Presentation Information: N/A.
Staff Recommendation: Move that the Council award Contract #20220068 and enter into a unit price contract with Custom Welding Diversified, Inc. for the Botanical Garden Security Fence & Secret Garden Project.
Alternate Recommendations:
1. Move that the Council amend the recommendation and award Contract #20220068.
2. Move that the Council not approve Contract #20220068 and provide staff with direction.
Background: Since January 2022, the Parks & Recreation Department has received multiple emails/letters from the Friends of the Botanical Gardens advocating for the P&R Department to prioritize the planned project to install perimeter fencing surrounding the Botanical Gardens property. The concerns were based upon continued vandalism that is taking place in various locations within the Gardens as well as theft of plants, mulch, potting soil, and decorative pots during and after hours at the Gardens. In late January 2022, the Gardens experienced an increase in afterhours nefarious...
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