Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the City of Providence Board of Contract and Supply meeting for Monday, 12/30/2024. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll?
Mayor Smiley is absent. Kyle Delgado?
Councilman Gonsalves is absent. Councilwoman Anthony? Present. Crystal Lindber? Present.
Elaine Richards. Present. Joseph DePina.
Maureen McManus. Present. Shamarie, husband.
Erland Roguell is absent. You have nine present and three absent.
You have four. Thank you very much, madam clerk. I'd like to entertain a motion to elect myself as chairperson of this meeting. Second. Motion made by director to Pena, second by treasurer or husband.
All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. The ayes have it. Madam clerk, can we please let the record reflect that we're joined today by miss Eddie Lee Schwab? She's the senior assistant city solicitor for the city of Providence.
So noted. Thank you very much. I'd now like to entertain a motion to go to section b, opening of bids.
Motion made by controller Verlini. Second by director Delgado. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. The ayes have it.
Section b, opening of bids. Item number one, department of parks, purchase of one vacco loader lag vacco loader. For beads. There are four bids for item number The first bidder is United Construction and Forestry, and they have provided a bid of 148,400. The second bidder is Alta Equipment Company, and they have provided a bid of $129,800 minus trades for a net bid of $124,300.
Perfitter is Southwick Milton Inc, DBA Milton instruction cat. I'm sorry. Milton cat. And the bid is a $121,900. And the fourth bidder is One Nation Distribution LLC, and they have provided a bid of $249,989.
Item number two, Providence Police Department purchase of ammunition and supplies. Two bids. Two bids for
Now the first bidder is Thomas j Morris the third, Eagle Pointe Dunn, TJ Morrison, they have provided a unit price bid. Second bidder is Jerk Brothers Inc, and they provided a bid of $87,019.19 dollars. Item number three, Department of Public Property, lease of city property known as Camp Cronin, 1399 Ocean Road, Narragansett, Rhode Island, five year lease with two five year options.
This item has to be advertised.
Thank you very much, madam clerk. We will be re advertising item number three. Item number four, Department of Public Works, open enrollment, interested suppliers of snow and ice for control. No fees. But these items remain on the agenda until formal notice.
Thank you very much, madam clerk. May I please this completes the opening of the bids. I'd like to entertain a motion to refer all bids to city clerk's office.
Second. Motion made by chief Dapena, second by deputy commissioner Richards. All those in favor, please say
The ayes have it. I'd now like to entertain a motion to move to section c, advertisements. So moved. Second. Motion made by deputy commissioner Richards, second by treasurer, Sirmari Husband.
All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. The ayes have it. I would like to entertain a motion to approve the advertisements in sections d as well as readvertise item number three from section b.
Second. Motion made by deputy commissioner Richard, second by treasurer Shamari Hussain. All those in favor, please say aye.
The ayes have it. Now I'd like to motion a motion to echo into section e.
Motion made by controller Bellini, second by treasurer Hussain. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. The ayes have it. Madam clerk, will you please read item number one into the record?
Item number one is discussion relative to including liquidation damages in contracts.
That was one that commission's office was planning to report back on. She don't wanna send anything to your body.
I'm assuming it was deferred to our contracts team. We have
a a number of working on those things, and I'll I'll
Oh, I think disappointment.
I'm not getting an update.
Yeah. So the question was, I noticed in the contacts that I that I don't see any penalty for noncompliance with the city's first source holdings. I don't see any penalty for future contract in terms of what vendors have already agreed to do in regards to NDE participation. So I saw no penalties that I had in the contract. And as a result, there's never been any kind of penalty for noncompliance with First Source and whole history with First Source.
We've never been a fund issue. And we've never really gone after anyone that's not gonna find anything that need to required. So, I mean, the source of that is the contracts. So that's what we'll continue that to the next meeting.
We have a motion to continue that.
