Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Finance and Management Director to renew a contract, on behalf of the Facilities Management Division, with Winnscapes for lawn care 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 awarded 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 renewal options. The Finance and Management Department would like to exercise the third (3rd) of the four (4) annual contract renewals.
Winnscapes Contract, FID: 31-1313521, CC# CC005033, expiration date October 25, 2023
Fiscal Impact: This ordinance authorizes expenditures of up to $301,165.50 from the general fund with Winnscapes for lawn care and landscape maintenance services. The Facilities Management Division contracted $288,276.64 in the 2021 general fund operating budget for these services. In 2020, the division expended $264,295.50 for these services, which included a contract modification via Ordinance 2850-2020 that added lawn care and landscape maintenance services for various new facilities that became operational in 2020.
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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 lawn care and landscape maintenance services for facilities under the purview of the Facilities Management Division; to authorize expenditures of up to $301,165.50 from the general fund. ($301,165.50)
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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 bidder; and
WHEREAS, this contract was bid...
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