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117he Ci-~zT Council of the City of Paris has
neretcfore advertised fer tne ptirchase oi certain water
t;reatment plan-~ eauipment ur..der Pro ject :;o. ~02-1-57; anG,
.:T=_.-=I:i=>, the C'itTr Cotancil received bi_ds on the 2=s`th
da~,r o~`' ~anuar.r, 1957 ior said pro,-'!ec~; a:id,
7 :~..:;~11 ~-1, -~'"c; ~nmi~~eerinr~ _'irm o" I'orr. est and ~otton
have recommenceci trat, tn2 'oid o_f -'-nfilcc, nc. ai "ucson,
Arizona, ?.:,i,ich is in the a.lount of 20,T>>4.00, is the lowest
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1~ C `-'nat tre oi,_i o:" in-fi_lce, l:nc., in the amount of
7~`4•00 be, ard the same is hereby accepted, and upon
bein, :"urn-Lshed wi`-h t:ne sa tisf.actcry perror::lance boncz, the
Lit~.r :a?1a.i;°r O' tIl° r1l`,V O_' Pc`iT'iS 1.S h-oT'@by authorl7eCl 4-0
enter inte contract with said Infi_lco, Inc. in accordance
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FORREST AND COTTON
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600 VAUGHN BUILDING
T. CARR FORREST, JR. DALLAS I, TEXAS
JAMES A. COTTON
January 29, 1957
Mr. A. K. Steinheimer
City Manager
City of Paris
Paris, Texas
Dear Mr. Steinheimer:
At 7:00 P. M. on January 28, 1957, the City of Paris opened bids
for the purcha.se of water treatment plant equipment. The bid included
two schedules, each of which called for lump sums.
Two bids were received, one by Infilco, Inc., E. G. Rominele, Vice
President, P. O. Box 5033, Tucson, Arizona, hereinafter referred
to as bidder No. 1, which covered both Schedule I and Schedule II,
and without any elimination of items called for in the Schedules. A
second bid was submitted by Bailey Meter Gompany, H. E. Weaver,
Manager, Proposition Department, 1050 Ivanhoe Road, Cleveland 10,
Ohio, hereinafter referred to as bidder No. Z. However bidder No. 2
deleted one of the items from Schedule No. I and failed to bid at all
on Schedule No. II. Bidder No. 1 supplied a bid bond with his bid
and bidder No. 2 supplied two certified checks, #32328 in the sum of
$700. 00 and #32329 in the sum of $125. 00, both issued by the Cleveland
Trust Gompany of Cleveland, Ohio, Euclid-Ivanhoe Office.
Since bidder No. 1 has submitted an unqualified and total bid without
reservations or eliminations and since bidder No. 1 is well qualified
to furnish the equipment called for and since bidder No. 2 failed to submit
an unqualified bid, we therefore recommend that the contract be awarded
to Infilco, Inc.
We have evaluated the partial bid of Bailey Meter Company, together
with substantiating data which this company submitted with its bid. In
Schedule I the item of cast iron fittings and cement asbestos pipe filter
underdrain laterals which was eliminated from the bid of bidder No. 2
ha.s a value of $5, 300. 00. Based upon this, the evaluation of the bid of
bidder No. 2 on Schedule I would have been $21, 564. 00, if this item had
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not been eliminated. If we then add an amount for Bid Schedule No. II
equal to that supplied by bidder No. i, we would have a total evaluated
bid for bidder No. 2 of $22, 460. 00, thus leaving bidder No. 1 with a
low bid of $20, 784. 00.
We have heretofore considered, and after the bid re-c'onsidered, the use
of some alternate equipment suggested by Bailey Meter Company which
would result in a saving to the City in one instance and an increase in
cost to the Gity in a second instance. We are still of the opinion that
the equipment specified will give much better performance and will
result in longer filter runs, thus requiring less frequent backwashing.
Our recommendation given above that Infilco, Inc, be awarded the contract
remains unchanged.
Presumably the performance bond will be placed by the Federal Insurance
Company, who furnished the bid bond. Since this is a small amount,
we feel sure the United States Treasury would list this company for
this amount.
Respectfully submitted,
FORREST AND COTTON
Consulting Engineers
T. Carr Forrest, Jr,
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