CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Approve the award of Bid 21-093, Custodial Services - Central Business District, to Total Facility Maintenance for an amount not to exceed $384,658 and for a two-year term
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DEPARTMENT: Department of Public Works
SUBMITTED BY: Richard Dublinski, Director
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
N/A
BACKGROUND:
The Department of Public Works (DPW) contracts custodial services to provide cleaning related services in public areas within the Central Business District (CBD) and parking decks. This includes public areas such as sidewalks, parking lots and decks, streets, and stairwells. The contractor furnishes all labor, equipment, and supplies (except paper products, trash liners, waste containers, and cleaning chemicals) to perform daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning.
In February 2021, DPW issued Bid 21-093, Custodial Services - Central Business District, for a vendor to perform nighttime, year-round custodial services including, but not limited to litter pick-up, emptying trash containers, and cleaning parking deck stairwells, stairs, restrooms, and elevator lobby areas for the downtown area.
DISCUSSION:
Advertisement Date:
02/17/2021
Notices Sent:
62
Opening Date:
03/04/2021
Planholders:
23
Proposals Received:
10
Bids were received from the following vendors:
Vendor Name
Proposed Cost
Diverse Facility Services
$323,971.20
Total Facility Maintenance
$358,848
Citywide Building Maintenance
$359,856
Tricon Group Inc
$463,680
ABM Industries
$503,366.40
Atalian US Midwest
$618,019.20
Divinely Scent Inc
$628,992
Tidy Queens
$1,112,371.20
Eight vendors provided a bid for this service. The low bidder is Diverse Facility Services, the City's current vendor. However, due to concerns related to unsatisfactory past performance (as outlined below), staff finds there is enough documented evidence to consider Diverse Solutions non-responsible.
1. Diverse Facility Solutions failed to provide the required staffing level consis...
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