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Providence Board of Contract and Supply-Monday, December 16, 2024-2:00 PM

December 16, 2024

Call to Order, Roll Call, and Election of Temporary Chair

13:38 - 14:35

The Board of Contract and Supply called the meeting to order and established a quorum with nine members present. The board then voted to approve the election of a temporary chair.

Section B: Opening of Bids

14:35 - 34:39

The board opened and read public bids for various city department contracts, including employee insurance, resilience planning, auto body repairs, and water infrastructure. The board then voted to refer all opened bids to the city clerk's office.

Section C: Consideration of Agenda Items 1-35 and Bid Protest

34:39 - 39:34

The board entered a bid protest on Item 7 into the record, voted to continue Item 7, and discussed specific items including lighting and equipment contracts. The board then approved items 1 through 35 via a roll call vote with Item 7 continued.

Section D: Approval of Minutes

39:34 - 40:24

The board considered the minutes from the previous Board of Contract and Supply meeting held on December 2, 2024. The minutes were approved by voice vote with one member abstaining.

Adjournment

40:24 - 40:33

A motion to adjourn the meeting was made and seconded. The board voted in favor, and the meeting was officially adjourned.

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Every Saturday, friend wants to get dedicated

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Good afternoon. Welcome to the City of Providence Board of Contract and Sublime meeting of Monday, 12/16/2024. For me, call.

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Courtney Hawkins? Present. Council

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president Pro Tempur Pichardo?

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Present.

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Councilman Gonsalves is absent. Councilwoman Anthony is absent. Sarah Silveria? Present. Elaine Richards.

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Present. Joseph DePina.

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Present.

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Patricia Coyne Fay. Present. Shamari Husband.

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Present.

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John Arzmanian.

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Present.

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Dante Bellini. Present. Erlen Roguel is absent. You have nine present and three absent. You have a quorum.

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I'd like to entertain a motion to elect a message to a person.

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So moved. Second.

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Motion made by director Dapena, seconded by director Bellini. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? The ayes have it.

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Please let the record reflect that we're joined today by deputy city solicitor DeSanto. So noted. I'd like to entertain a motion to go to section b opening of bids. So moved.

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Second.

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Motion made by director Richards, seconded by director Blaney. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it.

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Aye. Aye. Aye.

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Aye.

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Life Insurance Company. $221,727.17. We've got Standard Insurance Company. Looks like a unit price. A Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, unit price bid.

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Item two, Department of People and Culture, medical insurance, three year contract with two two year options for renewal. Two bids. Two bids. UnitedHealthcare, $3,539,277.60 for medical only. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island, $46.92 per employee per month for medical.

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Item three, Department of Planning and Development, technical and scientific services for Fort Shoreline Resilience. I do. Five bids. US Inc, $233,500. GZAQ Environmental Inc, $220,000.

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The Kotaki architects... Landscape architects, $233,500. Eric, you have $233,500. Engineering, science, and technology, Inc. $227,091.38.

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Item four, Providence Police Department, motor vehicle auto body repairs. Three year contract with two one year options.

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Who will the two best?

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Unit price... I'm sorry. Broker collision unit price bid. Westminster Auto Body. Gonna press good.

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Item five, Department of Public Property, construction material testing inspections for Providence Schools, forwarding pre k to eight schools, Spaziano Middle School, Pre k to eight school, Mount Pleasant High School, eighth semester, and Alphardema. John John Turner Consulting. I can get a. Geotechnical Engineering Testing. Unit Press bed.

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Item six, department of public property. Item seven, office of sustainability. Community based recycling outreach and education campaign. Three Three bits. Beds.

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Zero West Providence, $220,660. Transformations PR LLC, 220... $2,660. Clean Water Fund, $222,660. Item eight, office of sustainability, electric vehicle charging, infrastructure design, and construction parts department.

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Three b. Three b. Energy Source LLC, $244,316.84. AmpFlo Electric Inc, $146,312.

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I'm not impressed. Can I get that? Yeah. So that... Okay.

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So we've got Amphib twice. One is for the the Roger Williams Park Carriage House, and that is a $146,312. And the second bid is for the Dow Rimpel Boathouse EV charger, and that is a $128,177. Two bids. Okay.

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There are two... There are actually two bids for that item. Okay. Item nine. Workforce Solutions of Providence, Princeton.

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2024, we owe

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a youth program. Will be. You bet. Is that faster forward?

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Then we've got Tri County Community Action Agency total budget request of 500,000. Item 10, water supply board, accelerated lab service line replacement program, contact 2.1. Three bins. Three bins. Bisco contracting for $7,041,125.

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Can repeat that again?

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For Bisco contracting for $7,041,125.

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Yes.

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Yes. 19,962 thousand $450. Ferrer Construction Company Inc, $18,685,345. Item 11, water supply board is inspection and rehabilitation of the supplemental tunnel and aqueduct 70 inch aqueduct and a 102 inch aqueduct upstream section expiring 12/3126 with one option year. This is 01/13/2025.

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Very Sorry

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to interrupt. On that last, maybe... Could you read that second number again and just do it for watch? Like, Okay.

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Alright.

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Let's It's Richie.

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Okay. So item 10, there are three bids. The first one is for Bizco contacting for $7,041,001.25. There's Ritchie Drainline Company Inc. $19,000,009.62 $4.50.

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19,000,000. What's that again?

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$9,624.50. And then Ferrera Construction, $18,000,006.85 $3.45.

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And this was 7,000,000, just to be clear? Mhmm.