Danbury Board of Awards unanimously approves 13 procurement items, including Westlake water plant contract

Jake Volpe, Danbury’s purchasing agent, opened the Board of Awards meeting at 10:04 a.m. on May 14 and read the attendance on the record. The board took up 13 slated items and approved each by unanimous vote.

The meeting’s first substantive item was a proposed five‑year, grant‑funded agreement with vendor Inspect2Go to provide licensing and inspection software to the Health & Human Services Department at $20,000 per year. Volpe said the department’s director, Fernando Carvallo, submitted a sole‑source justification pointing to Inspect2Go’s existing statewide installations and compatibility with recently adopted food‑safety code. "This is from Inspect2Go… the cost would be $20,000 per year for a five year term," Volpe said. The board voted to award the contract as a sole source contingent on execution of an agreement acceptable to Danbury City.

Other routine awards included a purchase of 1,500 feet of 36‑inch polyethylene pipe from Core & Main under the state contract for $78,120 for the highway department and a sole‑source repair award to C.N. Wooded Viro for a Vacall truck for $24,880.80, which staff said is the only authorized…