Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Finance and Management Director to renew a contract, on behalf of the Facilities Management Division, with Winnscapes for mowing and landscape maintenance services.
The Facilities Management Division solicited and received formal bids for mowing and landscaping services on February 26, 2019. Winnscapes was deemed the lowest, responsive, and responsible bidder and was therefore award the contract for mowing and landscaping services for locations under the purview of the Facilities Management Division. This contract was bid with four (4) annual contract renewals options. The Finance and Management Department would like to exercise the first (1st) of the four (4) annual contract renewals.
Winnscapes Contract, FID: 31-1313521, CC# CC005033, expiration date September 17, 2021.
Fiscal Impact: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $243,295.50 from the General Fund with Winnscapes for mowing and landscape maintenance services. The Facilities Management Division budgeted $198,700.00 in their 2020 General Fund operating budget for these services. The additional funding will come from budgetary line-item surpluses within the Facilities Management Division general fund budget. In 2018, the Facilities Management Division expended $201,322.25 for mowing and landscaping services. In 2019, the division expended $198,700.35 for these services.
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To authorize the Finance and Management Director to renew a contract, on behalf of the Facilities Management Division, with Winnscapes for mowing and landscape maintenance services for facilities under the purview of the Facilities Management Division; to authorize the expenditure of $243,295.50 from the General Fund ($243,295.50)
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WHEREAS, the Facilities Management Division solicited formal bids for mowing and landscape maintenance services; and
WHEREAS, the city received four bids and Winnscapes was deemed the lowest, responsive, and responsible bid...
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