Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. RFP PW16-131 and award a contract to United Storm Water, Inc., of City of Industry, CA, to provide storm drain routine maintenance and repair, in an annual amount of $276,000, and authorize an annual 25 percent contingency in the amount of $69,000, for a total annual contract amount not to exceed $345,000, for a period of three years, with the option to renew for two additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager.  (Citywide)
Motion carries. Thank you. Next up is item 19. Report from Public Works Recommendation to award a contract to United Stormwater to provide storm drain, routine maintenance and repair for a total contract amount, not to exceed 345,000 citywide. There's a motion and a second. Is there any public comment saying, please cast your vote, please come on down. Good evening, Honorable Mayor and City Council. My name is Ed Perry and I'm the president of United Strong Water and also United Pumping Service. We're a family owned business. And as I referred to, just the two of us, United, we're a family owned minority business, which next month will be celebrating 45, 46 years in business. We provide jobs for about 150 families, including quite a few families here in the city of Long Beach. We are the incumbent for this contract. We've been doing this work for the city of Long Beach for about ten years. And from all the feedback that I hear, we're doing a very good job. And if we weren't doing a good job, we would not have been given the the other option optional years winter at the time as we have been in the past. There was some protest by by the runner up ocean blue and and I just so I really don't know how that turned out. And that's why I'm here tonight, just to to speak up for our company. But our company is a much larger, much larger organization. And we have a lot more resources in the way of equipment of people. The contract that they brought up, a concern about response time. Our contract is principally a maintenance contract. And while there is some an R function, United is very much an air contractor. We've been performing emergency response since 1970, actually been delivering on various emergency response contrasting and since 1982. So although there has not been much of a need for the emergency emergency response part of the contract, which might happen if there was flooding due to all the droughts we've been having when that has occurred, we've been Johnny on the spot. We've been right there. Our project manager in charge of the contract actually lives in the area and he's actually often shows up on site before and his city employees to do search. Just just to let you know also that the recommendation is you're with United Storm Water. Yes, sir. So the recommendation is to award the contract to United Storm Water. And so there is no other thing we're we're looking at right now. Okay. Okay. In that case, to the sector, thank you very much for your patronage. All right. That was just good to the intimate. Thank you very much. No problem. Thank you for for what you do for the city. There's a motion. There was a motion in a second. No other public comment. Members, please cast your votes.