Lake County, IL
File #: 23-0299    Version: 1 Name: Joint resolution authorizing a contract with McGinty Bros., Inc., Long Grove, Illinois, in the amount of $82,933 for ecological restoration management of wetland and upland buffer areas requiring native landscape maintenance.
Type: resolution Status: Passed
File created: 2/14/2023 In control: Public Works and Transportation Committee
On agenda: Final action: 3/14/2023
Title: Joint resolution authorizing a contract with McGinty Bros., Inc., Long Grove, Illinois, in the amount of $82,933 for ecological restoration management of wetland and upland buffer areas requiring native landscape maintenance.
Attachments: 1. 23-0299 Bid Tab, 2023 Native Landscape, 2. 23-0299 Vendor Disclosure, McGinty

Title

Joint resolution authorizing a contract with McGinty Bros., Inc., Long Grove, Illinois, in the amount of $82,933 for ecological restoration management of wetland and upland buffer areas requiring native landscape maintenance.

 

Staff Summary

                     There was a public call for bids, and a total of two bids were received, ranging from $82,933 to $148,906.81, and the lowest responsible bidder is McGinty Bros., Inc., Long Grove, Illinois, in the amount of $82,933.

                     This project is included in the Transportation Improvement Program, and designated as Section 23-00000-14-GM.

 

Body

RESOLUTION

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to authority granted by this Lake County Board, the County Engineer heretofore called for sealed bids, by publication, for ecological restoration management of wetland and upland buffer areas requiring native landscape maintenance, and designated as Section 23-00000-14-GM; and 

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to said publication calling for said bid, sealed bids were received and opened on February 7, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. at the Lake County Division of Transportation in Libertyville, Illinois; a tabulation of said bids being as follows:

 

McGinty Bros., Inc.

Long Grove, Illinois

$82,933 

 

Davey Resource Group, Inc.

Elmhurst, Illinois

$148,906.81

 

WHEREAS, the Public Works and Transportation Committee, the County Engineer, and the Purchasing Agent have examined each bid, and the lowest responsible bidder is McGinty Bros., Inc., Long Grove, Illinois, their bid being $82,933 based on estimated quantities and unit prices; and

 

WHEREAS, this Lake County Board, by prior resolution at its meeting on November 15, 2022, appropriated $152,500 of Matching Tax funds for ecological restoration management of wetland and upland buffer areas.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this Lake County Board, that a contract be awarded to said McGinty Bros., Inc., Long Grove, Illinois, in accordance with their bid of $82,933, based on estimated quantities and unit prices, and that the County 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 ecological restoration management of wetland and upland buffer areas, and designated as Section 23-00000-14-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.

 

DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on March 14, 2023.