Resolution No. _____________

Board of Supervisors, County of San Mateo, State of California

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Resolution Adopting Plans and Specifications, Determining Prevailing Wage Scales and Awarding and Authorizing Execution of a Contract for the Retrofitting of Lighting Fixtures at 555 County Center (Project No. P11U1)

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RESOLVED, by the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Mateo, State of California, that

 

WHEREAS, this Board of Supervisors, on December 13, 2005, adopted Resolution No. 067742, which Resolution authorized the Director of Public Works to call for sealed bids of the Retrofitting of Lighting Fixtures at 555 County Center; and

 

WHEREAS, this Board of Supervisors, on February 28, 2006, adopted Resolution No. 067837, which Resolution authorized the rejection of the one bid received and authorizing the Director of Public Works to Re-Advertise the project for bid.

 

WHEREAS, plans and specifications, dated March 24, 2006, were prepared and approved by the Director of Public Works for the Retrofitting of Lighting Fixtures at 555 County Center as described above and said plans and specifications were filed in the Office of the Director of Public Works; and

 

WHEREAS, a schedule of prevailing wage scales for each craft or type of workman needed to execute these plans and specifications in the locality in which said work is to be performed has been established by the Department of Industrial Relations and has been referred to in said plans and specifications; and

 

WHEREAS, the Department of Public Works did issue a call for sealed proposals to be received at the Office of the County Manager / Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Hall of Justice and Records, 400 County Center (formerly 401 Marshall Street), Redwood City, CA, 94063, until the hour of 2:30 p.m., Thursday, April 6, 2006; and

 

WHEREAS, the Department of Public Works did cause the notice inviting sealed proposals to be published two (2) times in the Independent Newspaper Group, a newspaper printed and published in this County, and obtained an affidavit of said publication, a copy of which has been filed with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors; and

 

WHEREAS, said bids were then publicly opened and declared in the County Manager / Clerk of the Board of Supervisors’ Offices; and

 

WHEREAS, the lowest responsible bid was submitted by AmTech Lighting Services in the amount of Eighty-One Thousand Six Hundred Twenty-Two and No/100 Dollars ($81,622.00) based on an estimate of the amount of work to be done.

 

    NOW THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY DETERMINED AND ORDERED as follows:

 

    1.

That plans and specifications dated March 24, 2006, for the aforementioned construction project, are on file in the office of the Director of Public Works, to which reference is hereby made for further particulars, are hereby approved and are adopted as the plans and specifications to be adhered to in letting and performing the work under a contract for said improvements.

 

2.

The schedule of prevailing wages referred to in said specifications has been determined to contain the general prevailing rates of wages in the locality in which said work is to be performed for each craft or type of workman needed to execute said contract.

 

    3.

That it is to the best interest of the County of San Mateo to award the contract for the Retrofitting of Lighting Fixtures at 555 County Center to:

 

AmTech Lighting Services

1266 Fourteenth Street

Oakland, CA 94607

 

4.

That the County of San Mateo shall enter into a written contract with AmTech Lighting Services for the doing of said work as required by the plans and specifications, as hereinbefore mentioned.

 

5.

That the President of this Board of Supervisors shall be, and is hereby, authorized and directed, for and on behalf of the County of San Mateo, to enter into said written contract with AmTech Lighting Services for the doing of said work, as hereinbefore mentioned and to receive and approve the Faithful Performance Surety Bond and the Payment Bond required to be posted by the said Contractor with the County of San Mateo in connection therewith.

 

6.

That all payments to the Contractor be in accordance with the plans and specifications, and other contract documents, based on the Director of Public Works’ written estimates of work actually done.

 

7.

That, Paragraph 5 above notwithstanding, aggregate payments to Contractor shall not exceed the sum of Ninety Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($90,000.00), without this Board’s prior approval.

 

8.

That the Clerk of this Board of Supervisors, shall be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to attest the signature of the President of this Board of Supervisors to said written contract.

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