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Item No. 23 <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 24, 2023 <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 07/18/2023. <br />STATUS OF ISSUE: <br />Bids were advertised in The Paris News on 06/18/2023 and 06/25/2023, and published on the City <br />of Paris Department of Utilities website; bid packets were direct mailed to fifty-six (56) vendors; <br />twenty-eight (28) bids from twenty (20) vendors were submitted. Low bids received: Chlorine, <br />$2,660.00/ton, Brenntag Southwest, Inc.; Alum, $329.45/ton, Affinity Chemical, LLC; Ammonia, <br />$1,870.00/ton, Tanner Industries, Inc.; Bulk Lime, $278.67/ton, Texas Lime; Bagged Lime, <br />$432.01/ton, Texas Lime; Powdered Activated Carbon, $0.98/lb., Cabot Norit Americas, Inc.; <br />Sulfur Dioxide, $2,000.00/ton, Brenntag Southwest, Inc.; Sodium Hydroxide, $840.00/ton, FSTI, <br />Inc.; Polymer, $1.85/lb., Polydyne, Inc.; Fluoride, $3.05/gal, Pencco, Inc. The bid tabulation is <br />attached. All original bid documents are available for review in the office of the City Clerk. <br />BUDGET: <br />Proposed FY23/24 Budget: <br />1. Department 82 — Water Production 10-0211-82-00: $1,175,000.00 <br />2. Department 86 — Wastewater Treatment 10-0211-86-00: $250,000.00 <br />3. Overall total: $1,425,000.00 <br />