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The Board of Water Commissioners for the City of Detroit, Water and Sewerage Department authorizes the Director to approve DWSD Contract 6007496 (CS-1991) with Layermark, Inc. for IT Consulting and Technical Services for a total contract amount not-to-exceed $1,804,500.00 and a term of two (2) years. This also authorizes the Director to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
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Agenda of November 19, 2025
Item No. 2025-256
Contract No.: 6007496
Contractor: Layermark, Inc.
Contractors Address: 1050 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 500, Office 5044, Washington D.C. 20036
Contract Amount: $1,804,500.00
Anticipated Contract Term: 12/1/25 - 11/30/27 (2 years)
TO: The Honorable
Board of Water Commissioners
City of Detroit, Michigan
FROM: Gary Brown, Director
Water and Sewerage Department
RE: Proposed DWSD Contract 6007496 (CS-1991)
IT Consulting and Technical Services
Layermark, Inc.
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Marqaicha Welch, Procurement Manager, the Board of Water Commissioners for the City of Detroit, Water and Sewerage Department authorizes the Director to approve DWSD Contract 6007496 (CS-1991) with Layermark, Inc. for IT Consulting & Technical Services for a total contract amount not-to-exceed $1,804,500.00 and a term of two (2) years. This also authorizes the Director to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND / JUSTIFICATION
The objective of the proposed contract is to provide information technology (IT) consulting and technical services for the DWSD. This Contract will provide the Department with a program implementation team and a means of obtaining IT resources quickly and efficiently through the issuance of Task Order Requests for Proposals (TORFP) or Requests for Resumes (RFR) specific to its needs.
DWSD also needs to build internal expertise in the curation and management of enterprise-scale data and information, particularly in a cloud-native environment; having staff work with subject matter expertise will allow this capability to be sustained internally. There are a number of critical projects that DWSD needs to undertake that requires skillsets and project execution services that are needed to supplement the staff that are working on daily operational items, revenue focused projects and business process improvements.
PROCUREMENT METHOD
This procurement was competitively solicited through a Request for Proposals (RFP) per Requisition 537949 which was fully approved on 10/2/24 (*previously approved Requisition 526393 was inadvertently closed in error; approved on 3//17/25). The RFP was advertised on the Michigan Inter-Governmental Trade Network (MITN) BidNet website for 41 calendar days (5/29/25 - 7/9/25). MITN published this opportunity to 1,482 companies and 286 firms downloaded at least a portion of the bid package. A total of 20 proposals were received:
|
Proposer |
Bid Total |
Equalizations |
Total |
|
LAYERMARK, Inc. |
$1,804,500.00 |
$0 |
$1,804,500.00 |
|
Technology Digest |
$1,993,350.00 |
$0 |
$1,993,350.00 |
|
Consultadd |
$1,860867.50 |
$0 |
$1,860867.50 |
|
eTech 360 |
$1,253,250.00 |
$0 |
$1,253,250.00 |
Proposals from Liquid Technologies, Mando Technologies, GegSigma, Accelera, Prescient InfoTech, Pollux Software Solutions, Zirlen Technologies, TurnPike Analyst, BuzzClan, Motown Innovations, IC Data Communications, High Cloud Solutions, Trillium Teamologies, Pragma Edge, Gartner and Intellibee were deemed non-responsible because the bid failed to meet minimum qualifications for the project.
The Evaluation Committee was comprised of a Business Analyst, an Assistant Manager from IT and an Assistant from the Project Management Office. Evaluations were based on the following criteria:
• Work plan & organization
• Ability to Perform Work
• Staff Experience
After 20 proposals were evaluated for responsiveness and responsibility, four proposals remained and were scored by the Evaluation Committee. Each voting member of the Evaluation Committee independently reviewed, evaluated, and scored the proposals based on the criteria listed above. Procurement took the scores and tallied up the rankings based on the scores. Procurement then determined the highest ranked responsive and responsible Proposer.
|
Rank |
Proposer |
Score |
|
1 |
LAYERMARK, Inc. |
5673.00 |
|
2 |
Technology Digest |
5173.00 |
|
3 |
Consultadd |
4619.50 |
|
4 |
eTech 360 |
3925.00 |
Simultaneously to technical evaluation, Procurement conducted pricing negotiations. DWSD came to agreement with the top ranked vendor. The Evaluation Committee and Procurement recommends the highest-ranked responsive & responsible for a term of two (2) years and a total not-to-exceed contract amount of $1,804,500.00.
Layermark has applied for clearances, and a formal contract document has been sent to the vendor for review and signature.
SUMMARY
A. Contract No.: 6007496 (CS-1991)
B. Contractor: Layermark, Inc.
C. Anticipated Contract Term: 12/1/25 - 11/30/27 (2 years)
D. Contract Amount: $1,804,500.00
E. Anticipated FY Breakdown:
FY 25-26: $350,000.00
FY 26-27: $1,000,000.00
FY 27-28: $454,500.00
F. Funding Source: CIP Funds
G. GL String:
5721-20244-487711-617400-900413-10792-0000-000000 - 50% Sewer
5821-20243-497711-617400-900414-15802-0000-000000 - 50% Water
This proposed contract was presented to the BOWC Finance Committee on November 5, 2025. Per the DWSD Procurement Policy, Mayoral Review will also be obtained.