- Welcome everyone. It is 430 so we'll go ahead and call our bid opening meeting to order. We have one
- item of business. It is the bid opening for the Bloomington Monroe Water Treatment Plant VFD upgrade.
- For the record, I'm Dan Hudson, the Capital Projects Manager for the City of Blooming Utilities. And
- we have three bids for the replacement of a VFD variable frequency drive and a transformer at the Monroe
- Water Treatment Plan. And that's for high service pump number one. We're asking for
- two beds, a base bed and an alternate. The base bed will be for the replacement of the transformer and
- the VFD. The alternate is not to replace the VFD, but feed the, not to replace the transformer, but
- feed the VFD through a spare breaker that we have available that's located near the backwash pump.
- All three bidders are very confident bidders and they're all electrical contractors. This one is from
- Electric Plus. The
- We have a base bid of $4,028,125. How about start that again? Well, let me just read the digits out.
- Okay. $429,125. $429,125. Thank you. Yes, right. And the alternate bid is $5,508,
- three two zero. Will you read those numbers again please? Five zero eight three two zero. Five hundred
- eight thousand three hundred twenty dollars. Thank you. I don't know why I'm having trouble. I can't
- read the numbers. The next one.
- is from NPower, that's I-N-P-W-R.
- They have a base bid of 294,500. I'm looking for the alternate.
- I don't see an alternate in this bid. So you have a base bid. Can somebody else look while we look at
- the third one? Yes, thank you. Yeah, that's a good idea. It should look something like this. That's
- the bid form.
- And this one is from Majestic Electric. They have a base bid of 329,074. 074. 074, yeah. The alternate is
- 334,357. Thank you. And we don't see that page included. No, I don't see that. So no alternate bid for
- Empower. Oh, hold on. Okay.
- I think they put it, they stuck it in right down here. Oh geez, okay, well that's tricky. Okay, alternate
- is. The alternate bid for Empower. For Empower is 326,000. 326,000? Yes. Okay, thank you. Thank you
- for seeing that. Yeah, I'm glad I flipped through one last time before I handed it back to you.
- We will go through the bids and I come back to you next board meeting on the 22nd and tell you which
- one is the most responsive and responsible and have a Resolution thank you. I have a resolution and
- a Request a contract. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah
- Are there any petitions or communications from the public? Okay. Hearing none.