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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 6003145 H2bid Inc., for Electronic Online Material Standards Manuals for a term of 3 years with a total not-to-exceed amount of $27,000. 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 February 17, 2021
Item No. 21-0383
Contract No. 6003145
Contractor: H2bid Inc., 7710 Hazard Center Dr., San Diego, CA 92108
Total Contract Amount: $27,000
Term: 3/1/2021 - 2/29/2024
TO: The Honorable
Board of Water Commissioners
City of Detroit, Michigan
FROM: Gary Brown, Director
Water and Sewerage Department
RE: Proposed DWSD Contract 6003145
Electronic Online Material Standards Manuals
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Mamata Burgi, Procurement Manager, the Board of Water Commissioners for the City of Detroit, Water and Sewerage Department authorizes the Director to approve DWSD Contract 6003145 with H2bid Inc., for Electronic Online Material Standards Manuals for a term of 3 years with a total not-to-exceed amount of $27,000. This also authorizes the Director to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND / JUSTIFICATION
H2bid approached Director Brown who then requested DWSD Procurement review the unsolicited proposal for relevance and applicability within our organization. Mr. Oliver, CEO of H2bid, served on the Detroit BOWC from 1998 - 2002 and it is from this experience that lead him to create H2bid to assist connecting water utilities to applicable vendors. Currently, the platform has a total of 107 entities, of which there are 26 Water &/ Sewerage entities.
Per the Procurement Policy, (item 5F - Unsolicited Proposals on Page 6), this unsolicited Proposal meets all of the criteria:
(a) The proposal was independently originated and developed by the offer...
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