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Soils and Materials Testing and Engineering RFP - Contract Amendment
History
In continuing efforts to ensure quality construction materials and methods are used and performed by contractors, staff utilizes the services of a construction material testing company. The current multi-year contract expires at the end of 2024. Although the service is primarily used in the annual Road Improvement Program and Road and Ditch Reconstruction Projects, these services are also necessary to facilitate disposal of excavated spoils.
A Request for Proposals (RFP) was published on BidNet Direct from January 12, 2022, through January 26, 2022. The details of the request are as follows: a three (3) year contract, with the option to renew for two (2) additional years, for soils and materials testing and engineering in connection with public improvements construction, MFT funded projects, new construction, and infrastructure construction projects. Staff requested personnel hourly rates and unit pricing for a variety of material testing/laboratory services.
Through BidNet, eight (8) vendors were sent a courtesy email. Sixty-eight (68) entities viewed the solicitation, seven (7) vendors fully downloaded the documents, and three (3) proposals were submitted electronically for consideration.
The electronic proposals were evaluated for completeness by the Finance Department on Friday, January 28, 2022. Unit prices from the three (3) vendors are summarized in the attached tabulation. One (1) proposer failed to include the unit price tabulation and therefore in fairness to the firm, contact was made to request the missing information.
Following a review of all proposals and each firm’s qualifications, a scored evaluation found Construction & Geotechnical Material Testing, Inc. of Elk Grove Village, IL (“CGMT”) to be the suitably qualified and cost-effective material testing vendor for the scope of services requested. Over the past nine (9) years, CGMT has provided...
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