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Council votes to restart bidding process for stadium alert system after procurement questions
Summary
Statham City council discussed limits on reopening bids for a stadium alert system and voted to ask the city administrator to issue a new RFP, a step that officials said would likely push a final decision to December or January.
Statham City council members on Oct. 21 discussed procurement questions around a proposed stadium alert system and approved a motion to restart the bidding process.
A staff member told the council that the project had been procured through a request for proposals and that the city cannot accept new bids from firms that did not respond to the original RFP. "This was the subject of an RFP," the staff member said, adding that the council could reject all bids and direct the city administrator to prepare a new RFP if it wanted broader competition.
Council members raised additional questions about the types of notifications the system would send and the potential costs of expanded text alerts. Staff cautioned that some of those details could be answered only by vendors who submitted proposals to the original RFP.
A motion was made to submit a new RFP and redo the bidding process so that new firms could compete; the motion was seconded and carried by a show of hands. Staff estimated that, while the absolute earliest the council could conceivably vote on a new award would be December, a realistic timetable would push a vote into January because a new RFP must be drafted, advertised and reopened for bidding.
The council’s vote directs the city administrator to prepare the new RFP and restart the procurement. No formal vote tally was recorded in the transcript.
