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Providence Board of Contract & Supply-Monday, May 18, 2026-2:00PM

May 18, 2026

Official record

From the minutes filed with the RI Secretary of State on June 01, 2026.

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Attendance

9 present · 3 absent

Present

Courtney Hawkins for Mayor Brett P. Smiley
Kyle Delgado
Sara Silveria
Elaine Richards
Joseph DiPina for Ateesh Chanda
Patricia Coyne-Fague
Shomari Husband
Anthony Alves
Dante Bellini

Absent

Councilman John Goncalves
Councilwoman Jo-Ann Ryan
Ty’Relle Stephens

Recorded votes (10)

Motion to Elect Sara Silveria as Chairperson

PASSED [UNANIMOUS]

Moved by Mr. DiPina for Mr. Chanda · Seconded by Ms. Richards

Aye (9)

Ms. Hawkins for Mayor Smiley , Mr. Delgado for Council President Miller , Ms. Silveria , Ms. Richards , Mr. DiPina for Mr. Chanda , Ms. Coyne-Fague , Mr. Husband , Mr. Alves for Mr. Arzoomanian , Mr. Bellini

Motion to go to Section B - Opening of Bids

PASSED [UNANIMOUS]

Moved by Mr. Delgado for Council President Miller · Seconded by Ms. Richards

Aye (9)

Bids for Furnish and Deliver Hydrofluorosilicic Acid

REFERRED BIDS TO CITY CLERK with Item #5 being Cancelled, Item #6, #7 and #8 Extended to June 1, 2026, and Item #13 being Re- Advertised. [UNANIMOUS]

Moved by Mr. Husband · Seconded by Mr. Delgado for Council President Miller

Aye (9)

Motion to go to Section C - Advertisements

PASSED [UNANIMOUS]

Moved by Mr. Bellini · Seconded by Ms. Coyne-Fague

Aye (9)

Advertisements for Department of Public Works and Department of Recreation

APPROVED FOR ADVERTISING with Item #13 from Opening of Bids to be Re-Advertised and also to add One (1) Walk-On Advertisement –

Motion to go to Section A for Review

PASSED [UNANIMOUS]

Moved by Mr. Bellini · Seconded by Mr. Delgado for Council President Miller

Aye (9)

Approval of Items A1 – A49

APPROVED A1 – A49 [8 TO 1]

Moved by Mr. DiPina for Mr. Chanda · Seconded by Ms. Richards

Aye (8)

Ms. Hawkins for Mayor Smiley , Mr. Delgado for Council President Miller , Ms. Silveria , Ms. Richards , Mr. DiPina for Mr. Chanda , Ms. Coyne-Fague , Mr. Alves for Mr. Arzoomanian , Mr. Bellini

Nay (1)

Mr. Husband

Motion to go to Section D - Approval of Minutes

PASSED [UNANIMOUS]

Moved by Mr. Bellini · Seconded by Ms. Richards

Aye (9)

Approval of Minutes: May 4, 2026

APPROVED (WITH VOTE) [UNANIMOUS]

Moved by Mr. DiPina for Mr. Chanda · Seconded by Mr. Delgado for Council President Miller

Aye (9)

Motion to adjourn the meeting at 2:35 o'clock P.M.

PASSED [UNANIMOUS]

Moved by Mr. Bellini · Seconded by Ms. Richards

Aye (9)

Speaker 0

18:34 - 18:43

Good afternoon. Welcome to the City of Providence Board of Contractions supply meeting on Monday, 05/18/2026. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll?

Speaker 1

18:43 - 18:46

Courtney Hawkins? Present. Kyle Delgado?

Speaker 0

18:46 - 18:46

Present.

Speaker 1

18:47 - 18:56

Councilman Gonsalves is absent. Councilwoman Ryan is absent. Sarah Silverio? Present. Elaine Richards?

Speaker 1

18:56 - 19:00

Present. Joseph Capina? Present. Patricia Quinn Faith? Present.

Speaker 1

19:00 - 19:01

Shamarie, husband?

Speaker 0

19:01 - 19:01

Present.

Speaker 1

19:01 - 19:02

Anthony Alves?

Speaker 0

19:02 - 19:03

Present.

Speaker 1

19:03 - 19:10

Dante Bellini? Present. Tyrell Stevens is absent. We have nine present, three absent. We have a plan.

Speaker 0

19:11 - 19:18

I'd like to entertain a motion to elect myself chairperson. Moved. Second. Motion made by director Dapena, seconded by director Richards. All in favor?

Speaker 0

19:18 - 19:26

Aye. All opposed? The ayes have it. I'd like to, sorry. Please let the record reflect that we're joined today by Michael Calise, deputy city solicitor.

Speaker 1

19:26 - 19:27

So noted.

Speaker 0

19:27 - 19:35

K. I'd like to entertain a motion to go to section b, opening of bids. So moved. Second. Motion made by director Delgado, seconded by director Richards.

Speaker 0

19:35 - 19:44

All in favor? Aye. All opposed? The ayes have it. Section b, item one, department of planning and development, engineering and design services for Matton Ave.

Speaker 0

19:44 - 20:49

Tarbridge. Morbis. This, this is an RFQ, so just reading the names on. DMT with Associates. Commonwealth engineers and consultant.

Speaker 0

21:51 - 22:25

VLP Companies New England. Perry Corporation. Item two, Providence Police Department. Police uniform and equipment to your contract. One bid.

Speaker 0

22:25 - 22:56

One bid. Edward Duke uniform at $2,188,680. Item three, Providence Police Department. Purchase of ammunitions and supplies fiscal year '27. Three bits.

Speaker 0

22:56 - 24:14

Three bits. Anorexis LLC, $194,576. Iconic Munitions, $108,700. Eagle Point gun, $110,105.40. Item four, Department of Public Property, Webster Ave Elementary School playground.

Speaker 0

24:14 - 25:13

Prebids. Prebids. Mill City Construction, $339,478. Christina Brothers, $279,000. Zytec Corporation, $368,000.

Speaker 0

25:15 - 25:30

Item five, department of public property, municipal space planning services, one year contact. This item this RFP of the eight canceled. Nice. Item six, department of public property. Elevator maintenance repair and asset management services.

Speaker 0

25:30 - 25:46

Send it to 06/01/2026. K. Item seven, department of public property. Fire alarm suppression system, sprinkler, fire signature inspection, testing, maintenance, and emergency repair service. This item is also being extended to 06/01/2026.

Speaker 0

25:47 - 25:59

Item eight, department of public property, event equipment, rentals, and services, three year contract. This item is getting extended to 06/01/2026. Item nine, water supply board. Agricultural products.

Speaker 1

26:00 - 26:01

One One bid.

Speaker 0

26:41 - 27:40

Turf supply doing business as Allen's seed of of $427.03 unit price bid. Item 10, water supply for cellular distributed antenna systems. Two bits. Two bits. Timberline Communications.

Speaker 0

27:51 - 28:21

$1,145,395.88. VNS communication, $132,036. Item 11, water supply board grant writing and administration services. I need this. Three beds.

Speaker 0

29:10 - 30:00

Five parametrics. $383,505,120 dollars. Grant and Funding Solutions Company, Unit 5 bid. Rosewood Consulting. Year '1, 5,500 per month.

Speaker 0

30:00 - 30:43

Years two and three, 5008. Salt water supply board trash and recycling recycling collection services. Prevents. Prevents. Greenview free services, unit price bid.

Speaker 0

31:15 - 31:56

MTG disposal unit size grid. Homes disposal and recycling unit price. Item 13, water supply board. Furnish and deliver a hydrofluorosilic acid.

Speaker 1

31:56 - 31:57

One day.

Speaker 0

31:58 - 32:19

That was a good timing. Was it right? I couldn't believe.

Speaker 1

32:19 - 32:21

Oh. It

Speaker 0

32:21 - 32:35

was right. No. So it's Penco Inc, and it is not a bid. They are defining to bid. So That'll be up again.

Speaker 0

32:36 - 32:41

Or do we readvertise on that situation, madam clerk?

Speaker 1

32:42 - 32:44

I would say yes.

Speaker 0

32:44 - 32:50

Readvertise? Not really. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 0

32:51 - 33:57

Ma'am, pepper, are there any unmarkets? Three of them. It's looking a while. K. I'm this is not anything that's on the agenda today.

Speaker 0

33:58 - 34:03

This, is for, animal control vaccines and medications.

Speaker 1

34:04 - 34:05

I think the next.

Speaker 0

34:05 - 34:05

Might be

Speaker 1

34:05 - 34:06

next. Okay.

Speaker 0

34:13 - 35:31

Okay. Maxivating. Okay. Pass. I don't see any financial.

Speaker 0

35:34 - 36:00

Total bid, $56,718. Oh, I'm sorry. Intel in Intellivs. Number nine. So, number nine is two bidders, Optera Solutions, unit price bid.

Speaker 0

36:01 - 36:12

K. This, concludes the opening of bids. I'd like to entertain a motion to refer the bids to the city city clerk's office. So moved. Second.

Speaker 0

36:12 - 36:18

Motion made by treasurer husband, seconded by director Delgado. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? The ayes have it.

Speaker 0

36:18 - 36:21

I'd like to entertain a motion to go to section c advertisements.

Speaker 1

36:22 - 36:23

So moved.

Speaker 0

36:23 - 36:30

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

Speaker 0

36:30 - 36:34

Madam Burke, do we have an additional, item to add the Spectrum C?

Speaker 1

36:34 - 36:44

Yes. We have a walk on ad from the Department of Recreation for Rebid Sports Equipment and Affair, FY '27. Bids will be opened on 06/01/2026.