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City to approve multiple procurement items: concrete, chemicals, telecom and web services

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Staff asked council to approve a set of procurement items, including a single-bid marine‑grade concrete contract (estimated annual use $560,000), authorization to exceed the manager’s approval for sodium hypochlorite purchases (anticipated $267,000), a $90,000 CenturyLink/Lumen threshold, and continuation of an expanded sole‑source Granicus agreement.

City staff presented a batch of procurement and contract items at the pre-agenda meeting, asking council to approve higher spending thresholds and sole-source continuations for several services used by city operations.

Anne Hyde, procurement, said the marine-grade ready-mix concrete solicitation produced a single responsive bid from Preferred Materials. After outreach and negotiations permitted under policy for single-response bids, staff negotiated terms. “The estimated use of the contract over the annual period would be…

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