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Aldermen debate one-year extension for job order contracting vendor; some call for rebid
Summary
City staff asked the Committee of the Whole to extend a job-order-contracting (JOC) vendor agreement for one year; several aldermen requested the item be revisited or rebid, and at least one alderman said he would vote against the extension and put it on unfinished business.
City staff asked the Committee of the Whole on Dec. 17 to approve a one-year extension with F. H. Passion, SS Nielsen and Associates LLC of Chicago to continue providing job-order contracting vendor services for city facilities.
Kelly Coulter, the city’s director of purchasing, and Jim Birchwell, chief facilities officer, described the contract as important because it allows staff to pursue projects under the JOC threshold without restarting a formal bid process. Coulter said…
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