Council awards FY2022 EPA Community Project Funding RFP to Grant Works, RFQ to LJA Engineering
The council voted 4–0 to award Grant Works the grants-management RFP and LJA Engineering the RFQ for FY2022 EPA Community Project Funding after staff explained an EPA dispute over prior advertisement length and recommended re-running procurement for certainty.
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City Manager Lon Squyres told the council that the city received FY2022 Community Project Funding administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency but faced an EPA challenge over how long the procurement was advertised. Squyres said the guidance the city followed required 10 days (and the city used 13), but EPA is now contending the advertisement needed to run 30 days; appealing could take four to six months. To avoid delay, staff re-ran a procurement process and presented results to council.
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