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Joint resolution authorizing a contract to provide for the 2011 traffic signal equipment project to install Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) with Meade Electric Company, Inc., McCook, Illinois, in the amount of $58,129, at 11 intersections and designated as Section 11-00000-10-GM.
Staff Summary
· 2011 Uninterruptible Power Supply: Contract Award
· The County maintains 157 traffic signals and various pieces of equipment portions of which annually need to be replaced and upgraded.
· The 2011 work concentrates on installing Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) at 11 intersections that have LED traffic signals installed but no UPS's.
· UPS units only work at signals with low energy using LED traffic signals.
· A total of 4 bids were received and the lowest responsible bidder is Meade Electric Company, Inc., McCook, Illinois, with a contract amount of $58,129.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, pursuant to authority granted by this Board of Lake County, the County Engineer heretofore called for sealed bids, by publication, to provide for the 2011 traffic signal equipment project to install Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) at 11 intersections and designated as Section 11-00000-10-GM; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to said publication and calling for said bids, sealed bids were received and opened on March 22, 2011, at 10:00 A.M., at the Lake County Division of Transportation in Libertyville, Illinois, a tabulation of said bids being as follows:
Meade Electric Company, Inc.,
McCook, Illinois
$58,129.00
H & H Electric Co.
Franklin Park, IL
$65,736.10
Gaffney's Protective Maintenance, Inc.,
Batavia, IL
66,660.00
Home Towne Electric
Lake Villa, IL
$72,130.00
WHEREAS, the Public Works and Transportation Committee, the County Engineer and the Purchasing Agent have examined each bid, and it appears that the lowest responsible bidder is Meade Electric Company, Inc., McCook, Illinois, their bid being $58,129.00, based on estimated quantities and unit prices; and
WHEREAS, this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, by prior resolution at its meeting of February 8, 2011, appropriated $110,000.00 of Motor Fuel Tax funds to provide for the 2011 traffic signal equipment project to install Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) at 11 intersections and designated as Section 11-00000-10-GM.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this County Board of Lake County that a contract be awarded to said Meade Electric Company, Inc., McCook, Illinois in accordance with their bid of $58,129.00 based on estimated quantities and unit prices and that the Purchasing Agent, the County Clerk, and the County Engineer of Lake County be authorized and they are hereby directed to enter into a contract with said low bidder to provide for the 2011 traffic signal equipment project to install Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) at 11 intersections and designated as Section 11-00000-10-GM.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in as much as such estimated quantities are the best approximation that can be determined at this time, these quantities may be added to, deducted from, or modified from in the final determination of the contract cost in accordance with Chapter 605 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes, Act 5, Section 5-205.2 without further Board action, providing the final cost chargeable to the funds appropriated does not exceed the appropriation.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this appropriation be processed by the County Engineer for final approval of the Illinois Department of Transportation in accordance with the "Agreement of Understanding" between the Illinois Department of Transportation and Lake County, dated January 22, 2003.
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County Engineer
On behalf of IDOT Pursuant to
Agreement of Understanding Dated January 22, 2003
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on April 12, 2011