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Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. PA-00410; and authorize the sale of one used Portable Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Fueling System to California Cartage Company, LLC, a local Long Beach-based business, for the amount of $230,000. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to authorize the sale and removal of one used portable Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) fueling system to California Cartage Company, LLC, of Long Beach, California.
Due to the addition of a newer, larger capacity and permanent LNG fuel station at the City's Fleet Services facility, the City now has an older, smaller, portable LNG fueling system available for sale. In 2003, the Fleet Services Bureau leased this fueling system from Applied LNG Technologies, and ultimately purchased and utilized the system until 2009. In 2009, the Fleet Services Bureau built and opened a new permanent 32,000-gallon LNG fueling station to replace the smaller portable unit. This portable fueling system is no longer needed and can be sold.
California Cartage Company, LLC, has agreed to purchase this fueling system for $230,000, which includes necessary insurance and complete removal of the fueling system from its current location at the Fleet Services facility. California Cartage Company, LLC, has been providing trucking and drayage Services in and around the Port of Long Beach since 1942. As part of the Port Clean Air Action Plan, California Cartage Company, LLC, has deployed over 200 LNG drayage trucks. The purchase of this portable LNG fueling system will provide critical fueling Services to their growing fleet of trucks as well as provide tax revenues back to the City.
The bid for the purchase of the LNG fueling system was advertised in the Press-Telegram on October 22, 2009 and 149 potential bidders specializing in LNG fuel were notified. Of those bidders, 13 downloaded the bid via our electronic bid system. There was a site inspection meeting on November 4,2009. The bid document wa...
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