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- Welcome everyone. It is 430 so we'll go ahead and call our bid opening meeting to order. We have one

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- item of business. It is the bid opening for the Bloomington Monroe Water Treatment Plant VFD upgrade.

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- For the record, I'm Dan Hudson, the Capital Projects Manager for the City of Blooming Utilities. And

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- we have three bids for the replacement of a VFD variable frequency drive and a transformer at the Monroe

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- Water Treatment Plan. And that's for high service pump number one. We're asking for

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- two beds, a base bed and an alternate. The base bed will be for the replacement of the transformer and

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- the VFD. The alternate is not to replace the VFD, but feed the, not to replace the transformer, but

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- feed the VFD through a spare breaker that we have available that's located near the backwash pump.

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- All three bidders are very confident bidders and they're all electrical contractors. This one is from

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- Electric Plus. The

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- We have a base bid of $4,028,125. How about start that again? Well, let me just read the digits out.

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- Okay. $429,125. $429,125. Thank you. Yes, right. And the alternate bid is $5,508,

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- three two zero. Will you read those numbers again please? Five zero eight three two zero. Five hundred

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- eight thousand three hundred twenty dollars. Thank you. I don't know why I'm having trouble. I can't

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- read the numbers. The next one.

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- is from NPower, that's I-N-P-W-R.

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- They have a base bid of 294,500. I'm looking for the alternate.

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- I don't see an alternate in this bid. So you have a base bid. Can somebody else look while we look at

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- the third one? Yes, thank you. Yeah, that's a good idea. It should look something like this. That's

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- the bid form.

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- And this one is from Majestic Electric. They have a base bid of 329,074. 074. 074, yeah. The alternate is

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- 334,357. Thank you. And we don't see that page included. No, I don't see that. So no alternate bid for

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- Empower. Oh, hold on. Okay.

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- I think they put it, they stuck it in right down here. Oh geez, okay, well that's tricky. Okay, alternate

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- is. The alternate bid for Empower. For Empower is 326,000. 326,000? Yes. Okay, thank you. Thank you

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- for seeing that. Yeah, I'm glad I flipped through one last time before I handed it back to you.

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- We will go through the bids and I come back to you next board meeting on the 22nd and tell you which

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- one is the most responsive and responsible and have a Resolution thank you. I have a resolution and

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- a Request a contract. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah

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- Are there any petitions or communications from the public? Okay. Hearing none.