Finance Committee - 07/07/2021 Page 16
Ms. Parkinson
Yes | can. Again this is our annual contract for the City’s unleaded fuel. We did go out to bid. We received 3
bids back; two of them extremely close. When we did the first year and second year average it was about
$1,000.00 difference but we went with Global who was the low bidder and they also are our current supplier so
that’s kind of our rationale for going with Global.
Mayor Donchess
OK. Anyone? (There were none.)
MOTION CARRIED
From: Kelly Parkinson, Purchasing Manager
Re: Wastewater Chemicals: Polymer, Sodium Hypochlorite & Sodium Bisulfite in the amount of $660,000 funded
from account 61156 Chemicals (169 Wastewater)
MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT- GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND APPROVE THE
FY22 PURCHASE OF POLYMER ($450,000), SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE ($150,000) AND SODIUM
BISULFITE ($60,000) FROM POLYDYNE OF RICEBORO, GA, IN THE AMOUNT OF $660,000. FUNDING
WILL BE THROUGH DEPARTMENT: 169 WASTEWATER; FUND: WASTEWATER; ACCOUNT
CLASSIFICATION: 61 SUPPLIES & MATERIALS
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Now, Ms. Parkinson are you doing this or is Mr. Boucher on here?
Dave Boucher, Wastewater Superintendent
Mr. Mayor, | am on — Dave Boucher.
Mayor Donchess
OK go ahead.
Mr. Boucher
OK thank you Mayor. Dave Boucher, Wastewater Superintendent. So this is the annual purchase of three
chemicals we use at the Wastewater Facility. The polymer we purchase is used to aid in the separate of water
from sludge at the Waste Water Facility. We purchase this through a company, the existing company we have
— these companies come to the Wastewater Facility, they test their products and we go with the product that
works the best for us so we can’t be it through a consortium. So this is the company we have been using and
we’d like to stay with them. Also the sodium hypochlorite is a disinfection product that we use at the
Wastewater Facility. We are going through the Northeast Merrimack Valley Chemical Consortium on this one.
Borden Remington is the company we are currently using, they were the low bidders this time around so we
would like to stick with them. And the sodium bi sulfite is a chemical we used to remove the sodium
hypochlorite before the wastewater goes to the river. We also went through the Northeast Merrimack Valley
Chemical consortium with this one, however, the low bidder on this one is the company we are currently using
but we have had problems with them all season long, getting chemicals on a timely schedule. We can’t do
without this project. There were several times where we were almost not able to get it. So we would like go
with PBS which is a company we have used in the past: very happy with their services, they were the second
lowest bidder on this.
