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Detroit Water and Sewerage Department
File #: 2025-206    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Contract Status: Agenda Ready
In control: Financial Services
On agenda: 9/17/2025 Final action:
Title: The Board of Water Commissioners for the City of Detroit, Water and Sewerage Department authorizes the Director to approve DWSD Contract No. 6007398 with Core & Main, for the purchase of Magnetic Locators, for a total contract amount not-to-exceed $145,825.20 and a term of one year. The BOWC also authorizes the Director to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
Indexes: Board of Water Commissioners, Finance Committee
Attachments: 1. 6007398 bid tab
Title
The Board of Water Commissioners for the City of Detroit, Water and Sewerage Department authorizes the Director to approve DWSD Contract No. 6007398 with Core & Main, for the purchase of Magnetic Locators, for a total contract amount not-to-exceed $145,825.20 and a term of one year. The BOWC 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 September 17, 2025
Item No.: 2025-206
Contract No.: 6007398
Contractor: Core & Main, 11925 Stephens Rd., Warren, MI 48089
Contract Amount: $145,825.20
Contact Term: 9/1/25 - 8/31/26

TO: The Honorable
Board of Water Commissioners
City of Detroit, Michigan

FROM: Gary Brown, Director
Water and Sewerage Department

RE: Proposed DWSD Contract 6007398
For various Magnetic Locators
Core & Main

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 No. 6007398 with Core & Main, for the purchase of Magnetic Locators, for a total contract amount not-to-exceed $145,825.20 and a term of one year. The BOWC also authorizes the Director to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.

BACKGROUND / JUSTIFICATION

DWSD Warehouses receive, stock, store, and issue materials to various DWSD teams to support our Field Services, Maintenance, Repair and Operations work. Magnetic Locators find underground objects with ferrous metal content, using the earth's magnetic field. They do not emit a signal, but rather, they measure magnetic field distortion that surrounds a buried metal target. Magnetic Locators are used to locate underground objects with ferrous metal content at varying depths, from small corner pins to large tanks, drums, and septic tanks. These are primarily used by surveyors, excavators and construction workers. This one-year contract wi...

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