Recommend approval to authorize the City Manager to procure the Replacement of the Fire Alarm System in MLK Visitor’s Center from Johnson-Laux Construction, LLC in the amount of $142,527.87. A request for proposals (Event #7080) was posted publicly and ran from May 15, 2019 to July 23, 2019. No responses were received. As a result, the State of Georgia's state contract will be engaged for completion of this project. The State of Georgia’s job order contractor will be used to perform this project to meet time constraints and City ordinance requirements. The State of Georgia’s job order contract is considered a convenience contract that is available for use by all State, City, and County public entities. The purpose of this contract is to provide multi-traded general construction services to accomplish small to medium sized projects for repair, alteration, modernization, rehabilitation, and minor new construction to infrastructure, buildings, structures, or other real property. The State of Georgia used a competitive bidding procedure to select Johnson-Laux Construction to serve as the sole provider of these services for this region.

Approval