2012/01/24 City Council Resolution 2012-17RESOLUTION NO. 2012 -17
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROHNERT PARK
REJECTING SUPERIOR GUNITE'S BID AS NON - RESPONSIVE AND AWARDING
THE CONTRACT FOR THE SEWER SIPHON LINING PROJECT TO INSITUFORM
TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
WHEREAS, investigation of the City's older parallel sewer force main along Laguna de
Santa Rosa requires sliplining and rehabilitation to provide redundancy for the existing system
(hereinafter the "Sewer Siphon Lining Project ");
WHEREAS, City prepared an invitation for bids and specifications for the Sewer Siphon
Lining Project and estimated the bids would be below the $175,000 threshold set by the Unform
Construction Cost Accounting Procedures ( "UCAP "), which governs the City's informal bidding
procedures as provided for in Rohnert Park Municipal Code section 3.04.12;
WHEREAS, on December 8, 2011 the City sent out an invitation for informal bids for
the Sewer Siphon Lining Project and received three bids which ranged from $148,250 to
$249,227;
WHEREAS, the apparent low bidder, Superior Gunite, did not include sufficient
experience references in their bid with the same lining material proposed as required by the
contract documents and failed to adequately remedy this omission upon request;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 2.6 of the General Provisions of the Specifications,
incomplete proposals such as Superior Gunite's may be rejected as non - responsive;
WHEREAS, the second low bidder, Insituform Technologies, submitted a bid of
$182,200, which staff has reviewed and determined to be responsive;
WHEREAS, the UCAP provides, pursuant to Public Contracts Code section 22034, that
the City Council may award a contract for a value of up to $187,500 to the lowest responsive and
responsible bidder by a four -fifths vote;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED the above - referenced recitals are true and
correct and material to this Resolution.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in making its findings the City Council relied upon
and hereby incorporates by reference all of the bid materials, correspondence, staff reports and
all other related materials.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the bid the City received from Superior Gunite for
the Sewer Siphon Lining Project is hereby rejected as non - responsive.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the bid submitted by Insituform Technologies is
deemed to be responsive.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council hereby finds that Insituform
Technology's bid less than $187,500 and that staff's cost estimate of the Sewer Siphon Lining
Project was reasonable.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council, by a four -fifths vote, hereby
awards the contract for the Sewer Siphon Lining Project to Insituform Technologies pursuant to
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the authority established in Public Contracts Code section 22034 and the Rohnert Park Municipal
Code.
DULY AND REGULARLY ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Rohnert
Park this 24th day of January, 2012.
CITY OF .ROHNERT PARK
AHANOTU: AYE BELFORTE: AYE CALLINAN: AYE STAFFORD: AYE MACKENZIE: AYE
AYES: (5) NOES: (0) ABSENT: (0) ABSTAIN: (0)
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