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Joint resolution authorizing a contract for traffic signal maintenance for the period from December 1, 2009 to November 30, 2010 and designated as Section 10-00000-01-GM, to Mead Electric Company, McCook, Illinois in the amount of $844,957.70.
Staff Summary
• 2010 Traffic Signal Maintenance: Contract Award.
• The county has over 141 intersections with permanent traffic signals and these traffic control signals require periodic maintenance.
• A total of 1 bid was received and opened on Tuesday, August 25, 2009, and the lowest responsible bidder is Mead Electric Company, McCook, Illinois with a contract amount of $844,957.70.
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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, for the 2010 traffic signal maintenance for the period from December 1, 2009 to November 30, 2010 and designated as Section 10-00000-01-GM; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to said publication and calling for said bids, sealed bids were received and opened on August 25, 2009, 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
McCook, Illinois
$844,957.70
WHEREAS, the Public Works and Transportation Committee, the County Engineer and the Purchasing Agent have examined the bid, and it appears that the lowest responsible bidder is Mead Electric Company, McCook, Illinois their bid being $844,957.70 based on estimated quantities and unit prices; and
WHEREAS, this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, by prior resolution at its meeting of July 14, 2009, appropriated $1,100,000 of Motor Fuel Tax funds for the maintenance of the aforesaid traffic signals.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this County Board of Lake County that a contract be awarded to said Mead Electric Company, McCook, Illinois in accordance with their bid of $844,957.70 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 for the 2010 traffic signal maintenance for the period from December 1, 2009 to November 30, 2010 and designated as Section 10-00000-01-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 award 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 8th day of September A.D., 2009