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Council approves $150,000 spending authority for fire‑apparatus repairs after debate over bid transparency
Summary
Council approved awarding fire‑apparatus repairs to the lone bidder despite objections about missing list prices in the bid. Council members pressed Public Works to include clearer pricing on future contracts and to avoid open‑ended spending without line‑item figures.
The Warwick City Council approved spending authority of up to $150,000 to award a one‑year contract (June 8, 2025–June 7, 2026) for fire apparatus repairs, after multiple council members criticized the solicitation for lacking line‑item pricing.
Christie Moretti of Public Works told the Finance Committee that Public Works received one bid for on‑site and vendor repairs from On Scene LLC and requested consolidated spending authority covering two parts of the solicitation. “This is a new bid award that we are requesting… It is a hundred and $50,000 collectively between a and b for spending authority,” Moretti said, adding department figures for prior years’ outside…
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