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.