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REQUEST APPROVAL TO EXERCISE CONTRACT RENEWAL OPTION
Department(s): Resource Management
Vendor: Homer Tree Service, Lockport, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (the “Preserves”) to exercise contract renewal option
Good(s) or Service(s): Brush removal at Turnbull Woods
Original Contract Period and Optional Renewal: 9/13/2016 - 9/1/2017, with the potential for a twelve (12) month extension
Contract Renewal Option Period Date(s): 9/2/2017 - 9/1/2018
Total Current Contract Amount Authority: $46,694.00
Original Approval: 9/13/2016, $46,694.00
Previous Increase(s): N/A
This Increase Requested: N/A
Estimated Fiscal Impact: N/A
Accounts: Potential Grant Match and Work Fund 51009.521440, Habitat Restoration 51009.521444, Habitat Enhancement 51009.521452, Grant Accounts: 51010.29982 and 51010.22522
Contract Number(s): 16-31-117
Concurrences:
The Chief Financial Officer and Chief Attorney have approved this item.
The Vendor has met the Minority and Women Business Enterprise Ordinance Provisions.
District(s): 13
Summary: Contract #16-31-117 consists of approximately thirty one (31) acres of brush removal at Turnbull Woods in Glencoe, Illinois which is being partially funded through a grant from the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The Preserves would like to exercise its option for a twelve (12) month contract extension to complete the work, which was postponed due to inadequate weather and ground conditions.
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