Recommend approval to award a construction contract for the trenchless rehabilitation of a sixty-inch main sewer line and vaults/junction boxes at the President Street Wastewater Treatment Plant from Vortex Companies through the HGAC Cooperative Purchasing Program in the amount of $687,675.

This purchase is for contractual services to rehabilitate the sixty-inch sewer line and the two associated vaults/junction boxes on the north and south sides at 1400 East President Street. These two vaults/junction boxes and the sixty-inch main sewer line convey all of the City of Savannah sewage from Montgomery Crossroads north to the President Street Water Reclamation Plant.  Failure to rehabilitate these lines and vaults/junction boxes could result in catastrophic failure of this infrastructure resulting in a massive sewage spill into the Savannah River.  This main and the junction boxes have met their useful service life. The rehabilitation is being done through a Trenchless process and includes the by-passing of the sewage while the rehab coating is being done.

Per Section 2-4154 of the City’s Purchasing Ordinance, the City may purchase goods or services through the use of a state contract. The contract used for this procurement is a HGAC Cooperative contract for Trenchless Pipeline Rehabilitation Services (Contract No. TP07-18). It was competitively bid by HGAC and expires June 30, 2022.

The vendor is:

Vortex Companies (Winder, GA)^(D)                      $687,675.00

(D) Indicates a Non-Local, Non-DBE owned business. 

Approval