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Joint resolution authorizing a contract to provide for the 2010 traffic signal equipment project to install Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) at 14 intersections and designated as Section 10-00000-13-GM to Mead Electric Company, Inc., McCook, Illinois in the amount of $112,710.10.
Staff Summary
• 2010 Traffic Signal Equipment Upgrade: Contract Award
• The County owns over 141 traffic signals and various pieces of equipment portions of which annually need to be replaced and upgraded.
• The 2010 work concentrates on installing Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) at 14 intersections that have LED signals indications installed but no UPS’s.
• UPS units only work at signals with low energy using LED signal indications.
• A total of 3 bids were received and the lowest responsible bidder is Mead Electric Company, Inc., McCook, Illinois, with a contract amount of $112,710.10.
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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 2010 traffic signal equipment project to install Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) at 14 intersections and designated as Section 10-00000-13-GM; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to said publication and calling for said bids, sealed bids were received and opened on April 27, 2010, at 10:00 AM at the Lake County Division of Transportation in Libertyville, Illinois; a tabulation of said bids being as follows:
Mead Electric Company, Inc.,
McCook, Illinois Payne & Dolan, Inc.
$112,710.10
H & H Electric Co.
Franklin Park, IL
$119,468.80
Home Towne Electric
Lake Villa, IL
$133,080.00
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 Mead Electric Company, Inc., McCook, Illinois their bid being $112,710.10, based on estimated quantities and unit prices; and
WHEREAS, this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, by prior resolution at its meeting of April 13, 2010, appropriated $120,000.00 of Motor Fuel Tax funds to provide for the 2010 traffic signal equipment project to install Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) at 14 intersections and designated as Section 10-00000-13-GM.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this County Board of Lake County that a contract be awarded to said Mead Electric Company, Inc., McCook, Illinois in accordance with their bid of $112,710.10 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 2010 traffic signal equipment project to install Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) at 14 intersections and designated as Section 10-00000-13-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 this 11th day of May A.D., 2010