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A Resolution Of The City Commission Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Authorizing The Appropriate City Officials To Issue Purchase Orders To Tenusa, Inc. (Primary) And Orchidman Landscape Artisans, Corp. (Secondary) On A Rotational Basis For Citywide Landscape Design And Field Services In An Amount Not To Exceed $350,000.00.
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Staff Recommends: Approval of the attached Resolution.
Explanation:
For Fiscal year 2019, the City Commission approved approximately $1,000,000.00 for the Department of Public Works to oversee, design, construct and implement a variety of citywide landscape and field design services to include the purchase and supply of groundcover/plants and shrubs.
The Department of Public Works, Urban Forestry Division requires the immediate additional services for the citywide landscape and field design services, including the purchase and supply of groundcover/plants and shrubs. The projected increased need for landscape design and field services, including the supply of groundcover/plants and shrubs have changed the scope of the current blanket purchase order agreements with the existing vendors substantially.
These existing landscape design and field services companies continue to provide satisfactory services. Therefore, the Department of Public Works and Procurement Services are recommending the issuance of new purchase orders to be issued to each of the landscape design and field services companies for a period of 24 months from the approval date of this resolution and not to exceed $350,000.00 for citywide landscape design and field services, including the supply of groundcover/plants and shrubs. It is of time urgency and of high importance that these landscape design and field services companies begin providing required services immediately.
Section 38.40(C)(8) of the Code of Ordinances exempts from competitive bidding and competitive proposals purchases of, and contracts for, supplies or contractual services, when the City Commission declares, by a five-sevenths (5/7ths) affirmative vote, that competitive bidding and competitive proposals are not in the best interest of the City.
Funding for the new Blanket Purchase Orders have been appropriated and exists in account numbers 334.509901.51900.563040.000209.000.000 and 334.509901.54100.563010.001119.000.000.
Recommended for inclusion on the agenda by:
Charles Lassiter, Assistant Director of Department of Public Works
Sylvia Glazer, Director of Department of Public Works
George R. Keller, Jr., CPPT, Assistant City Manager, Public Safety