Agenda Item Wording:
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Authorization for the City Manager to award the annual contract in the amount of $72,566 to William B. Oliver d.b.a. Kaweah Maintenance of Lemon Cove, CA for the steam cleaning of the Visalia Transit owned bus shelters/stops. This is a single year contract with the ability for single year extensions for a total of five years.
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Deadline for Action: None
Submitting Department: Administration - Transit
Contact Name and Phone Number:
Caleb Bowman, Management Analyst, Caleb.Bowman@Visalia.City, (559)713-4794
Nick Mascia, Assistant City Manager, Nick.Mascia@Visalia.City, (559) 713-4323
Department Recommendation:
Staff is recommending that City Council authorize the City Manager to enter into a contract for the steam cleaning of Transit's bus shelters/stops between the City of Visalia and William B. Oliver d.b.a. Kaweah Maintenance of Lemon Cove, CA in the amount $72,566.
Background Discussion:
Staff conducted a Request for Bid (RFB) (RFB 22-23-23) to solicit bids from interested parties to perform the cleaning of bus shelter/stops owned and serviced by Transit. Under this contract, stops with higher utilized shelters will be steam cleaned weekly and lesser utilized shelters bi-weekly. All stops with trash cans are to be emptied and trash removed from the surrounding area weekly for high use stops and bi-weekly for lesser utilized stops. This contract does not cover those stops that do not have shelters and trashcans except on an as need bases. The contract is responsible of removing all graffiti and report any damage to bus stop amenities to the project manager for each stop services. Currently Transit has a total of 510 bus stop locations owned and serviced by Transit, 495 within Visalia city limits and 15 in Goshen, Farmersville, and Exeter. Out of those 510 bus stop locations, 133 of those locations have a shelter, 47 have trashcans, and the remaining 330 stop locations have no amenities. Below is a breakdown of qua...
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