City of Nashua, NH
Wireless Communications Division
C/O William Mansfield
PO Box 785
Nashua NH 03061-0785
603-594-3521 Fax: 603-594-3615
September 10, 2020
Ms. Kelly Parkinson
Purchasing Manager
City of Nashua
229 Main Street - PO Box 2019
Nashua, NH 03061-2019
Dear Ms. Parkinson
The Communications Division recently solicited proposals for a Tower Foundation and
Installation of an 88’ Monopole Public Safety Communications Tower (RFP 0246-090220). As
discussed in previous meetings, this tower will allow the City fo relocate its current public safety
radio communication antennas off of the water tank on Kessler Farm Drive that is scheduled to
be replaced. The replacement of this water tank was initially scheduled for March 2020 and
now has been rescheduled for March 2021.
The request for proposal was submitted to three vendors and the City received three (3)
responses on September 2”, Below is a list of the bidders and the cost associated with their bid
which includes the Foundation, Offloading, Installation and Grounding for the Monopole Tower
that was purchased from Vaimont Industries.
NEXIUS Frisco, Texas $102,135.00
Green Mountain Communications Pembroke, New Hampshire $109,970.00
Industrial Communications Dunbarton, New Hampshire $177,730.00
The Communications Division evaluated the proposals with the guidelines set forth by the
Purchasing Department. These guidelines were also included in the RFP so that all
respondents were aware of the evaluation process. Each proposal was reviewed and evaluated
on the Qualifications and Experience, Impression of the Proposal and the Cost Proposal.
NEXIUS This bid was rejected due to the required Bid Bond not being submitted with the bid.
Green Mountain submitted a very thorough bid for this project. Green Mountain is well known
for the quality of work they perform. Their references and non-references spoke very highly of
them. They provided all of the information requested as well as a scope of work showing that
they understood ihe totality of the project. Green Mountain received an overall evaluation of
90%.
Industrial Communications submitted a bid containing a limited amount of information as the
understanding of the project. Due to the cost of their proposal they were not ranked highly
receiving a score of 60%.
We are currently working with Green Mountain Communications to finalize a contract that will
be submitted to the City of Nashua Legal Department. The Citywide Communications Division
