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F. Motion:
Discussion:
City of Nashua, Public Works Division
Board of Public Works Meeting Date: May 5, 2016
Stephen Dookran, P.E., City Engineer
Engineering Department
LED Street Lighting Conversion Project
To approve the construction contract for the LED Street Lighting Conversion project with
Siemens Industry, Inc. of Austin, TX in an amount of $1,455,694, Funding will be
through Department 161 Street; Fund: Bond; Activity: LED Lighting
The LED Street Lighting Conversion project consists of replacing approximately 5,500
existing High Pressure Sodium (HPS) street lights with Light Emitting Diode (LED)
street lights. Work includes a street light audit of all existing fixtures to provide the City
and Eversource with an updated inventory, a trial period of 300K LED products versus
4000K LED products, and weekly reports to be submitted in order to revise the rate
schedule for the newly installed LED lights.
The project was advertised on February 4, 2016. A mandatory prebid meeting was held
on February 23, 2016 and twenty firms were represented. Nine firms submitted bids on
March 11, 2016. Two of the firms were disqualified as non-responsive. The remaining
bids are as follows:
Firm Base Proposal Base Proposal with
Control System
Siemens $1,455,694 $2,083,936
Tanko Lighting $1,582,341 $2,308,674
Utility Service & Assistance $1,671,288 $2,295,840
The Efficiency Network $1,842,376 $2,467,452
PowerSecure $2,035,586 $2,732,116
Elecnor Hawkeye $2,174,971 N/A
The bids were tabulated and reviewed and it is recommended that the contract be
awarded to Siemens Industry, Inc. of Austin, TX as the qualified, low bidder. Their
references were checked and they received favorable recommendations from the
communities of Manchester, NH, Salem, MA and New Bedford, MA where Siemens has
recently completed projects of a similar nature,
