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
August 16, 2020
Kimberly Kleiner
Administrative Services Director
City of Nashua
229 Main Street — PO Box 2019
Nashua, NH 03061-2019
Dear Ms. Kleiner
The City has finally received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to construct the
Communications Tower on Kessler Farm Drive. This tower construction was to be completed in
March 2020 and now that we have received approval winter is on the horizon. We recently
went through the RFP Process on the tower fabrication and delivery. These proposals were
returned and evaluated. A vendor was selected and we have been negotiating the terms of the
contract language. This process has continued to delay the process and we are under a very
tight timeline to have this tower completed before first snowfall.
The tower fabrication takes up to 10 weeks to complete and deliver the product. At this point
we are looking at the last week of October for the tower delivery, if we can proceed to Finance
this week. If we wait until the next finance meeting, September 2, we will be looking at a mid-
November delivery date which could cause a serious issue with this construction if we receive
snowfall.
With us not knowing the unknown, referring to the weather, | am asking if the Mayor would
consider asking the Finance Committee to suspend the rules to take up this bid this
Wednesday evening. | am anticipating that the contract language issue will be resolved by that
point. If not | would request that the committees approval be contingent on final Approval from
the Attorney Bolton.
If you would like to discuss this further please contact me at 603-620-1500. Thank you in
advance for any assistance that you can provide me with.
Sincerely,
4 ae
William Mansfield
Radio Systems Manager
City of Nashua
