Good afternoon. Welcome to the City of Providence Board of Contract and Supply meeting on Monday, 09/09/2024. Madam, please call the roll.
Courtney Hawkins? Present. Council president, no one is absent, and councilman Gonzalez absent, councilman, Anthony Saracen. Sarah Silveria? Present.
Eli Richards? Present. Joseph Dekina? Present. Patricia.
Shamar, husband. Present. John. Present. Dante Donini.
Present. Caroline Rochelle is absent. You have eight present and four absent uniform.
K. I'd like to entertain a motion to elect myself chairperson of the screen.
Motion made by director DeFina, seconded by director Bellini. Hearing no objections, all in favor? Aye. All of those three ayes have it. Please let the record reflect that we are joined today by Michael Polisi, deputy city solicitor.
So noted. I'd like to entertain the motion to go to section b, opening of bins.
Motion made by director Bellini, seconded by creditor, husband. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? The aye have it.
Section b, opening of bids. Item one, Providence Fire Department. Station uniforms, three year contract. Two b. Three bids.
LLC, $272,654.80. Impact Custom Apparel LLC unit president. Item two, department of public property, design build services for Admiral Street decorative lighting. This item has been dropped. Item three, department of public property, design build services for Dana Street decorative lighting.
This item has been dropped. Item four, Department of Public Property, Elmwood Community Center roof restoration project.
The item has to be readvertised.
K. So item will be readvertised. Item five, department of public property, heavy truck parks for the city fleet, fiscal '25 for one year contract with two, one year options for renewal. One bid. One bid.
LLC. Unit price bid. Item six, department of public property. Nathan Bishop Middle School, new monumental sign. Two bids.
Two bids. Anchors away together. I'm doing business as AA sign in the morning. $33,700. Golden rule signs, $18,084.74.
Item seven, department of public property, construction management services for public works complex. Cost proposals only. A downstream construction company. $3,106,041.16. Augustini Construction Company, $3,457,830.
Madam clerk, are there any unmarked bids?
At this completes the opening of bids. I'd like to entertain a motion to refer all the bids to the city clerk's office.
Motion made by treasurer has been seconded by director Richards. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? The ayes have it.
I'd like to entertain a motion to move to section c as event. Second. Motion made by director Zapina, second by director Bellini. All in favor? None.
All opposed? I have it. Madam Clerk, is is there a advertisement that's being walked on?
There is. This is from the Department of Inspection and Standards. This will be for vehicle leasing, and it will be opened on 09/23/2020. Okay.
I'd like to entertain a motion to approve the advertisements from section section c as well as readvertising section four from... I mean, sorry, number four from section b and the walk on advertisement. I move.
Motion made by director Richard, seconded by director Bellini. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? The ayes have it.
Let me let me bring her back up here for a second. I'm done..
Like, Elaine's here. He's supposed to be here, so Elaine and Grace are here.
Okay. Alright. I'd like to entertain a motion to go to section e discussion, a discussion relative to improving MBEWBE compliance in city purchasing.
Motion made by the creditor, husband, seconded by director Bellini. Hearing no objection, all in favor.
And that's the... I've had it. K. We are... Have invited Ted Carr, executive director of economic development, Elaine Burke, deputy director of economic development, and Grace Diaz, director of MBEWBE Outreach, to give us an update on MBEWBE compliance incentive purchasing.
And treasure treasure husband. Sure. I'm.
She's with our MWBE program, and is on route running late. I do have a handout for y'all. If I could, do want
It's me, Elena. Great. Thank you so much. Treasure, did you want us to serve if you wanna let them go?
Can I do an introduction? Thanks, Ben. Good.
Alright. So I can think about what I was gonna say. I wanted to start out by just sitting in that in my short time here, I've been very impressed by the people around the state. You know, the guys in charge with running the city, and I know most of the time, you guys are hoping to just get people to bid. I've been part of running the cities.
I know. We need. The reason I've had to vote no on everything is because when I looked and saw such a high yield contracts from the high nineties from white white male oral firms that can apply to the... A level of accuracy that couldn't be coincidental. So for me, in that, I see that there's something in the process that isn't just happening.
When we dug a little bit deeper, we kind of took a look at the vendor list and kind of took a look at what's been happening. Saw maybe a lack of record keeping Iraq and... Oh, and the other reason that the the lack of ending these bombarding was because in a city that has such a minority... Big minority population for us, they have such a low And the participation rate applies that we're not really doing business with a lot of the residents, resident companies, a lot of people that live in the city. And we're missing the opportunity to push these dollars back into the city's economy, especially given the amount of money that we're borrowing.
And I think that's the other thing that kind of bothered me is, In my short time here, I've signed, I mean, this year, about a $160,000,000 in bonds, and we don't have really any way of directing any of that money to the residents. So we don't have any internal processes. We don't have any kind of local vendor preference. And when we looked at that in the news, what stood out to me is one of the reasons we have so few MBEs in applying is we haven't provided any preference. They don't get any points.
