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Providence Board of Contract and Supply approves bids, withdraws item 21
Summary
The Providence Board of Contract and Supply on Dec. 15 approved a slate of bid items and contracts, voted to send opened bids to the city clerk and approved items 1–35 with Item 21 withdrawn by request of the chair; the roll call recorded seven members present and five absent.
The Providence Board of Contract and Supply on Monday voted to approve a slate of opened bids and contracts and to approve agenda items 1 through 35, withdrawing Item 21 after the chair said it had been approved previously.
Director Elaine Richards made the motion to approve items 1–35, which Director Armanian seconded. The clerk conducted a roll call and announced the motion carried with seven members present; five members were recorded as absent. The clerk also confirmed that Item 21 would be withdrawn from consideration because it had been approved at an earlier meeting.
The board opened bids across multiple city departments during the meeting. Notable items listed during the opening of bids included behavioral-health vendors under the Department of Housing and Human Services (the transcript records a bid from Kodak Behavioral Healthcare at $59,640; another vendor is listed as “Victor life” with an unclear amount), park projects including renovation and HVAC installation at the Roger Williams Park gateway garage, and fabrication of granite blocks for Buckland Park (Williams Stone Company bid $16,586.19 for 16 granite blocks). The board also reviewed a advertised lease for a gondola and dock concession at Waterplace Park, described as a five-year contract with two five-year extension options.
Department of Public Property items included bids for recreation center gym improvements (multiple bids were recorded; the transcript lists a figure of $81,555.35 for one bidder), a two-year on-call contract for fence and garage rail repairs with two one-year options, and a carpentry-services open enrollment contract for Providence Bay facilities. The clerk announced that the stenographic-services item was being dropped from consideration.
During the meeting Directors moved to send all opened bids to the city clerk’s office for processing; that motion was adopted. The board also approved advertisements in Section C of the agenda and moved through routine agenda housekeeping, including approval of the minutes from the Dec. 1 Board of Contract and Supply meeting.
The board’s official roll call and approvals were recorded by the clerk; several vendor names and some dollar amounts in the transcript were unclear or possibly garbled and are noted as such in the meeting record. The board did not take separate recorded votes on individual items in the transcript beyond the consolidated roll-call approval of items 1–35.
