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PROPOSED BID RECOMMENDATION
Department: Planning and Development
Request: Authorization for the Forest Preserves District of Cook County (the “Preserves”) to enter into a construction contract with Meru Corporation, 8436 W. Carol St., Niles Illinois to install new water service at the Southwest Police Headquarters in Palos Park and flush toilets at Schiller Woods in Chicago, Illinois.
Reason: 17-80-016 New Water Service for South Police Headquarters and Schiller Woods Flush Toilet. The work includes, but is not limited to, furnishing and installing new cast iron water mains, open cutting roads, directional boring under existing Illinois Department of Transportation roads, traffic control, capping and removing an existing well, removing existing water treatment equipment, miscellaneous site and landscape restoration and other work as described in the drawings and building specifications.
Bid Opening Date: 2/10/2017
Bid Results:
Firm Total Bid
1. Meru Corporation $481,000.00
2. Sheeji Construction Inc. $559,780.00
3. Misfits Construction Co. $575,000.00
4. Pan-Oceanic Engineering Co. $595,519.00
Estimated Fiscal Impact: $481,000.00
Contract Period: Two hundred and forty (240) days after issuance of notice to proceed.
Account Name/Number: Land Improvements accounts: 51025.560019, 51026.560019, 51054.560019, 51055.560019, 51056.560019, 51057.560019 and 51009.560019
District(s): 9 and 17
Concurrence(s):
The vendor has met the Minority and Women Business Enterprise Ordinance provision.
The Chief Attorney and Chief Financial Officer have approved this item.