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Award of Bid No. IFB 22-27 for the Purpose of the White Rock Water Resource Reclamation Facility (WRRF) Construction Project in the Amount of $25,328,082.17 Including Bid Alternate A Plus Applicable Gross Receipts Tax, and a 9.8% Contingency in the Amount of $2,427,774.57 for a Total Construction Budget of $27,800,856.74.
Recommended Action
I move that Council approve the Award of Bid No. IFB 22-27 to RMCI, Inc., for the Purpose of the White Rock Water Resource Reclamation Facility (WRRF) Construction Project in the Amount of $25,328,082.17 including bid alternate A plus applicable gross receipts tax, and a contingency in the amount of $2,427,774.57, for a total construction budget of $27,800,856.74.
Utilities Manager Recommendation
The Utilities Manager and staff recommend approval of the project as presented.
Board, Commission, or Committee Recommendation
The Board of Public Utilities reviewed this request at their regular meeting of December 15th and unanimously recommends approval of the project as presented.
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In 2004 (17 years ago) the DPU had two aging wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) that were violating their respective permits. The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) expressed concern about these aging plants and worked with DPU to develop a long-range plan to improve the situation to where the DPU would reach full compliance with all permit requirements at both WWTP's. The DPU realized that the wastewater fund could not adequately fund, nor could the DPU customers endure the rate increases, necessary to replace both WWTP's at the same time. The Bayo Canyon WWTP was in the worst shape with the worst environmental record and so the DPU selected that WWTP replacement project first and executed a project to replace that WWTP. Initial bids for the Los Alamos (LA) WWTP project were significantly above the engineer's estimate and the initial bids were rejected and the WWTP was re-designed. The second round of bids came in slightly hig...
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