08 - Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemical BidsItem No. 8
Memorandum
TO: Mayor & City Council
Grayson Path, City Manager
FROM: Doug Harris, Director of Utilities
SUBJECT: AWARD WATER & WASTEWATER TREATMENT CHEMICAL BIDS
DATE: August 10, 2020
BACKGROUND:
Bids for water and wastewater treatment chemicals are scheduled annually. Bids were received
and publicly opened at 3:00 p.m. on 07/21/2020.
STATUS OF ISSUE:
Bids were advertised in The Paris News on 06/21/2020 and 06/28/2020, and published on the City
of Paris Department of Utilities website; bid packets were direct mailed to fifty-six (56) vendors;
twenty-six (26) bids from sixteen (16) vendors were submitted. Low bids received: Chlorine,
$790.00/ton, Brenntag Southwest, Inc.; Alum, $137.10/ton, Univar USA, Inc..; Ammonia,
$1,200.00/ton, Airgas Specialty Products, Inc.; Bulk Lime, $188.11/ton, Texas Lime Company;
Bagged Lime, $300.00/ton, Texas Lime Company; Powdered Activated Carbon, $0.495/lb.,
Thatcher Company, Inc.; Sulfur Dioxide, $790.00/ton, Brenntag Southwest, Inc.; Sodium
Hydroxide, $509.00/ton, Brenntag Southwest, Inc.; Polymer, $1.24/lb., Polydyne, Inc.; Fluoride,
$2.09/gal, Univar USA, Inc. The bid tabulation is attached. All original bid documents are
available for review in the office of the City Clerk.
BUDGET:
Department 82 - Water Production 10-0211-82-00: $465,786.00; Department 86 — Wastewater
Treatment 10-0211-86-00: $141,000.00; Overall total: $606,786.00.