DEPARTMENT: Finance
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Troy Elliott
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
Light Duty Service Vehicles
SUMMARY:
This ordinance authorizes acceptance of bids from Ancira Motor Company, Grande Truck Center, Grapevine DCJ, LLC, and Silsbee Ford to provide fourteen light duty service vehicles for a total cost of $565,885.86. Funding for this purchase is available from the Equipment Renewal and Replacement Fund FY 2018 Adopted Budget in the amount of $466,737.16, and from the General Fund FY 2018 Adopted Budget in the amount of $99,148.70.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Submitted for City Council consideration and action is the tabulation of eight competitive bids to provide twelve replacement and two additional light duty service vehicles for the total cost of $565,885.86. These units will be utilized by Animal Care Services, Fire, Library, Metropolitan Health District, Parks and Recreation and Transportation and Capital Improvements departments. These contracts will provide three animal transport trucks, one K-9 transport arson truck, one step van for book transport, two mosquito vector control trucks, two utility bed service trucks with pipe racks, two utility bed trucks, one sixteen foot flatbed, and two mini cargo vans to haul maintenance parts and tools between City locations.
The bid received from Red McCombs Ford could not be accepted and was found non-responsive due to the failure to provide a signature page acknowledging City contract terms and conditions.
Responses to the Invitation for Bid (IFB) were evaluated based upon the published bid specifications.
ISSUE:
These contracts will provide for the purchase of twelve replacement vehicles for Animal Care Services, Fire, Library, Metropolitan Health District, Parks and Recreation, Transportation and Capital Improvements departments, one additional vehicle for both the Animal Care Service and the Fire departments. The replacement of these vehicles is consistent wit...
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