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<br />REPORT <br /> <br />6.1C <br />Page 1 <br /> <br />To the Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From the City Manager <br /> <br />January 11,2010 <br /> <br />SUBJECT <br />Award of Contract - Redwood City Recycled Water Project - Phase I - Seaport Customer <br />Site Retrofits - Bid Package 4 <br /> <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />Approve, by motion, the contract documents and award the contract for the Redwood City <br />Recycled Water Project - Phase I - Seaport C~stomer Site Retrofits - Bid Package 4 <br />Project to the lowest responsible bidder, Pacheco Brothers Gardening, Inc. of Hayward <br />for their responsive and responsible low bid of $242,500.00 and authorize the City <br />Manager to increase the contract amount up to 100/0 if necessary. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND <br />In August 2003, the City Council approved a broadly defined, flexible recycled water <br />project, filed a California Environmental Quality Act Notice of Determination, and formed a <br />citizen community task force to provide input. In March 2004, the City Council accepted <br />the Task Force Report and directed staff to define a course of action to implement the <br />project. <br /> <br />Phase 1 of the Redwood City Recycled Water Project has been designed and built in <br />smaller, discrete projects over the past several years. Delivery of recycled water was first <br />available in Redwood Shores for the 2007 irrigation season. Phase 1 (east of Highway <br />101) includes creating the distribution system as well as smaller projects that adapt <br />customer sites for recycled water use. The distribution system piping of Phase 1 will be <br />fully constructed within the next few months as the work of bid packages 8 and 5A is <br />completed. Smaller "customer site retrofit" projects will continue throughout the year. <br />Major components of Phase 1 of the continuing project are as follow: <br /> <br />Treatment imDrovements consisting of filter Status: 1000/0 complete and in service. <br />modifications, chemical feed addition and <br />filtered water line at the SBSA site - owned and <br />operated by South Bayside System Authority <br />SBSA. <br />Disinfection facilitv consisting of new chlorine Status: 1000/0 complete and in service. <br />contact chambers at the SBSA site - owned by <br />the cit and 0 erated b SBSA. <br />Storace and oumoina facilities located within Status: 100% complete and in service. <br />the SBSA plant property (includes a back-up <br />supply line for potable water) - owned and <br />operated by the city. <br />Distribution system consisting of new Status: Phase I Bid Packages 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 <br />transmission pipelines throughout the water and 9 are 1 aOok constructed. Bid Package 8, <br />service area, in street rights-of-ways - owned or and the last bid package - Bid Package SA, are <br />with the right to construct in, and operated by 95% completed. <br />the cit . <br />Customer site retrofits for each existing private Status: Retrofit Bid Package 1 and 2 are 1 00% <br />or public site with a landscape irrigation meter. completed. Retrofit Bid Package 3 is 95% <br />Retrofits will occur as each existing water completed. <br />customer agrees to convert to recycled water <br />for landsca irri ation and industrial uses. <br />