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Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. PA-00312 and award contracts to Ferguson Enterprises, Inc., a Long Beach-based business (Local), and Phillips Steel Company, a Long Beach-based business (Local), for furnishing and delivering fusion-bonded-epoxy (FBE) coated steel pipe, as needed, in an annual amount not to exceed $500,000, for an initial term of one year with the option to renew for two additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is being requested to enter into an annual contract with Ferguson Enterprises, Inc., and Phillips Steel Company, for the purchase of as-needed fusion-bonded-epoxy (FBE) coated steel pipe used by the Long Beach Gas and Oil Department (LBGO). To ensure prompt delivery of pipe, LBGO is seeking to purchase from two vendors. Each vendor specializes in providing different sizes of FBE coated steel pipe, which is used to address relocation/replacement projects. Staff has estimated that 80 percent of the annual purchase, amounting to about $400,000, will be allocated for Port of Long Beach projects. To reduce overall costs, LBGO, in conjunction with the Purchasing Division, has competitively bid the purchase of the FBE coated steel pipe and contracted separately for the actual installation of the pipe. The award represents the estimated combined annual requirements for the two vendors.
The bid for FBE coated steel pipe was advertised in the Press-Telegram on October 14, 2011, and 187 potential bidders specializing in FBE coated steel pipe were notified via our electronic bid system. Of those bidders, 18 downloaded the bid. The bid document was made available from the Purchasing Division, located on the seventh floor of City Hall, and the Division’s website at www.longbeach.gov/purchasing
. A bid announcement was also included in the Purchasing Division’s weekly update of Open Bid Opportunities, which is sent to 30 l...
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