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Council OKs larger on-call repairs contract to cover fire-hydrant program and pavement work
Summary
Bullhead City council approved increasing an on-call water/wastewater repairs contract ceiling to $400,000 annually to fund a city-approved fire-hydrant installation program and add asphalt and concrete repair work to the contract.
Bullhead City Council on Feb. 4 approved an amendment to the city's job-order-contract (JOC) for on-call water and wastewater system repairs with Premier Backhoe Inc., raising the contract ceiling from roughly $182,000 to $400,000 a year and authorizing the city manager to execute the amendment.
The increase is primarily to cover planned installations under a previously approved fire-hydrant program and to add asphalt and concrete repair line items to the JOC, Utility Director Mark Clark told council. Clark said the JOC was created to allow faster emergency repairs without bidding each small job and that a fixed unit price of $1,750 is included in the contract for installing a fire hydrant.
Council approved the city's fire-hydrant program in August 2024, Clark said; the program calls for installing 80 fire hydrants per year for the first three years and 40 per year for the following two years. The amendment will allow those hydrant installations to be performed under the JOC rather than through separate competitive solicitations. Clark also said adding asphalt and concrete repair work to the JOC should shorten lead times for street-restoration work that previously required separate bids.
At the meeting a council member noted the solicitation produced three bids, with Premier Backhoe submitting the low response at $25,226.55 followed by Redmond Construction at $59,615 and Arizona Pipeline at $401,250.83. Clark said Premier has handled roughly 90% of similar city bids and is the intended JOC contractor.
A brief public comment urged that work such as hydrant repairs be competitively bid because some hydrants had been nonfunctional for years; council and staff said the hydrant program and the JOC were the agreed approach to expedite needed installations.
A motion to approve the amendment passed unanimously (7-0). The amended contract ceiling and authority for the city manager to issue payments were authorized immediately.
Questions that arose during council discussion focused on whether the budget dollars were already allocated (staff said funds for the hydrant program are budgeted) and on the missing bid-tabulation page in the packet (staff said it was inadvertently omitted from the packet and provided the low-bid numbers during the meeting).
