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Joint resolution authorizing execution of a contract with Campanella & Sons, Inc., Wadsworth, Illinois in the amount of $801,248.33 for the Linden Avenue Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project.
Staff Summary
• The County’s gravity sewer along Linden Avenue in the Village of Third Lake has reached the end of its useful life and needs to be replaced.
• The determination was made to replace the existing 15” gravity sewer with the same diameter sewer via three distinct types of construction methods: open cut, pipe bursting and pipe lining. Approximately 2,700 feet of pipe will be replaced.
• The County received bids from two (2) contractors for this work ranging from $801,248.33 to $1,224,680.
• Award of this contract is recommended to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder, Campanella & Sons, Inc. of Wadsworth, Illinois, who best meets the needs of the County in the amount of $801,248.33.
• This resolution authorizes and directs the County Purchasing Agent to execute a contract with Campanella & Sons, Inc. of Wadsworth, Illinois, in the amount of $801,248.33.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, the County of Lake (County) owns, operates, and maintains numerous sanitary sewers throughout the County including the sewer located along Linden Avenue in our Northeast Central Facilities Planning Area that is part of this project; and
WHEREAS, the sewer along Linden Avenue has reached the end of its useful life and needs to be rehabilitated; and
WHEREAS, the rehabilitation of the existing sewer with the same diameter sewer utilizing three different construction methods is the most economical solution; and
WHEREAS, in accordance with the Lake County Purchasing Ordinance, bids were called for by publication for the Linden Avenue Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project; and
WHEREAS, Campanella & Sons, Inc. is the lowest responsive, responsible bidder in the amount of $801,248.33; the other bid received was in the amount of $1,224,680.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that the Purchasing Agent is hereby authorized and directed to execute a contract with Campanella & Sons, Inc., Wadsworth, Illinois in the amount of $801,248.33 for the Linden Avenue Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project.
DATED at Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois on this 10th day of May, A.D., 2022.