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College Station council approves $1.08 million contract for citywide landscape maintenance over local bidders’ objections
Summary
The City Council voted 6-1 to award a citywide landscape maintenance and mowing contract to Encircle Management Inc., a nonlocal bidder that submitted the lowest proposal. Council members and local vendors debated local-preference policy, evaluation weights and vendor capacity before the vote.
The College Station City Council voted 6-1 on June 26 to award a citywide landscape maintenance and mowing contract to Encircle Management Inc. for a contract not to exceed $1,079,050.42.
The item had been pulled from the consent agenda after council members requested more information about bidder locality and scoring. Pete Koehler, assistant director of public works, said Encircle submitted the lowest cost proposal and received the highest combined score in the city’s request-for-proposal evaluation, which weighted qualifications and experience (50 percent), rates and expenses (35 percent) and references (15 percent).
“The score was based on qualifications and experience, rates, and references,” Koehler said during the briefing. The staff presentation and the bid summary included the line-item amounts for the six proposers: Encircle (about $1,079,050), Landmark (about $1,200,000), Yellowstone (about $1,210,000),…
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