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Providence City board opens multiple procurement bids, approves 35 items and refers several to City Council
Summary
At its March 10 meeting the Providence City Board Contract and Supply opened bids across city departments, heard contract amounts ranging from tens of thousands to multi-million dollars, approved items 1–35 with several items referred to City Council and recorded roll-call votes.
The Providence City Board Contract and Supply opened bids for projects across city departments and approved items 1 through 35 at its March 10 meeting, with a number of items referred to the City Council for further review.
The board opened bids in Section B for projects including a request for information (RFI) to update the PVD Fest website (Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism); an eight-month downtown mobile outreach contract with four one-year extension options (Department of Housing and Human Services); site improvements at Gaynor Street Park (Department of Parks); pedestrian plaza and Wayland Square pedestrian improvements (Department of Planning and Development); City Hall restroom refurbishments and other public-works and school infrastructure projects (Department of Public Property). The Water Supply Board presented multiple bids, including replacement/rehabilitation of water mains in Lower South Providence.
Why it matters: these procurement decisions set which vendors the city will negotiate with and which…
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