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Item No. 28 <br />Memorandum <br />TO: Mayor & City Council <br />Grayson Path, City Manager <br />Robert Vine, Assistant City Manager <br />FROM: Doug Harris, Director of Utilities <br />SUBJECT: AWARD WATER & WASTEWATER TREATMENT CHEMICAL BIDS <br />DATE: July 25, 2022 <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Bids for water and wastewater treatment chemicals are scheduled annually. Bids were received <br />and publicly opened at 3:00 p.m. on 07/12/2022. <br />STATUS OF ISSUE: <br />Bids were advertised in The Paris News on 06/19/2022 and 06/26/2022, and published on the City <br />of Paris Department of Utilities website; bid packets were direct mailed to fifty-eight (58) vendors; <br />twenty (20) bids from fourteen (14) vendors were submitted. Low bids received: Chlorine, <br />$2,160.00/ton, Brenntag Southwest, Inc.; Alum, $350.00/ton, Chameleon Industries, Inc..; <br />Ammonia, $2,300.00/ton, Airgas Specialty Products, Inc.; Bulk Lime, No bids received, must be <br />advertised again for bids; Bagged Lime, only one bid of $1,080.00/ton received from Water Tech <br />Inc., will be advertised again for bids; Powdered Activated Carbon, $0.95/lb., Cabot Norit <br />Americas, Inc.; Sulfur Dioxide, $1,250.00/ton, Brenntag Southwest, Inc.; Sodium Hydroxide, <br />$1,045.00/ton, Univar USA, Inc.; Polymer, $1.97/lb., Polydyne, Inc.; Fluoride, $2.64/gal, Univar <br />USA, Inc. The bid tabulation is attached. All original bid documents are available for review in <br />the office of the City Clerk. <br />BUDGET: <br />Department 82 - Water Production 10-0211-82-00: $996,800.00; Department 86 — Wastewater <br />Treatment 10-0211-86-00: $269,000.00; Overall total: $1,265,800. <br />