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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso - CC - 088-1963RESOLUTION # sa-63 A RESOLUTION OF AWARD OF CONTRACT CONSTRUCTION OF WATER RESERVOIR FOR MILLS ESTATE NO. 19 RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Burlingame, California, that WHEREAS, said Council did in open session on August 19, 1963, authorize and direct the City Clerk of said City to adver- tise for, open and examine sealed proposals or bids for the work to be done and improvements to be made; and WHEREAS, sealed bids or proposals have been advertised for, opened and examined by the City Clerk, the City Manager, and the Director of Public Works, as authorized and directed; and WHEREAS, alternate bids were invited for the construction of a one million gallon pre -stressed concrete reservoir and a one-half million gallon pre -stressed concrete reservoir in accordance with designs and specifications prepared for City and for the construction of a one million gallon pre -stressed concrete reservoir and a one-half million gallon pre -stressed concrete reservoir in accordance with contractor's design; and WHEREAS, THE CROM COMPANY, a corporation, submitted a written proposal for the construction of a one million gallon pre -stressed concrete reservoir in accordance with its design at a total bid price of $76,420.00; and WHEREAS, said design has been checked, modified, and approved as modified by the City Engineer of City; and WHEREAS, said modification of design will increase the capacity of said water reservoir to one million seventy thousand gallons at an additional cost of $1,000.00; and - WHEREAS, the lowest responsible alternate bid was that of the CROM COMPANY, a corporation, in the sum of $76,420.00; - 1 - NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED as follows: (1) That the City Council hereby rejects all of said pro- posals or bids except that hereinafter mentioned, and hereby awards the contract for doing the work and improvements and furnishing the materials, supplies, and equipment necessary to the construction of said one million gallon pre -stressed concrete reservoir in accordance with the Bidder's design, as modified by the City Engineer, to the CROM COMPANY, for the sum of $77,420.00. (2) The acceptance of the alternate bid of the CROM COMPANY, as modified, will result in the performance of the work at the lowest available price, and to re -advertise for bids would not result in competitive bidding, would not result in a lower cost to the City and would merely be an expensive formality in which the cost of the work would be substantially increased to the City even though modified. (3) All purposes of requiring advertising for bids, namely, invitation of competiton, the guarding against favoritism, improvidence, fraud and corruption in the award of municipal contracts and securing the best work and supplies at the lowest have been price practicable,/attained and an award based on said bid as revised would be for the benefit of property owners and tax- payers of the City and will not benefit or enrich the Bidder and will accomplish the construction of said reservoir with sole reference to the public interest. (4) The increase in capacity of said reservoir by 70,000 gallons at an additional cost of $1,000.00, in accordance with said lowest responsible alternate bid, as revised by City Engineer, is to the best interest of City and of its property owners and taxpayers. - 2 - OWT (5) The City Manager is authorized and directed to make and enter into a written contract with said successful alternate Bidder pursuant to the findings and determinations made in this resolution, and the Clerk of said City is hereby directed to attest his signature and to affix thereto the corporate seal of said City. ILI May � I, Herbert K. White,, City Clerk, do herebsy certify that the foregoing resolution was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 4th day of November, 1963, and adopted thereafter by the following vote: Ayes: Crosby-Diederichsen-George-Johnson-Martin. Noes: None Absent Councilmen: None Herbert K. iahite - City Clerk - 3 -