Danbury City Board of Awards approves cybersecurity, spare parts and engineering contracts

Danbury City’s Board of Awards on April 22 approved four procurement actions, including a cybersecurity contract for two water treatment plants and engineering work for a new pump station.

The board increased an existing IT support award for Computer Integrated Services (CIS) from a not-to-exceed $103,950 by $34,650 to a new total of $138,600 at the request of the Technology Services Department. ‘‘The billing rate was at $99 an hour,’’ Chip Volker, the city’s purchasing agent, said during the meeting as he described the amendment request. A board member moved to approve the amendment and the motion was seconded by Dan Garrick; the motion was approved with no discussion recorded.

The board then addressed cybersecurity work tied to a larger control-system upgrade at the Westlake and Marjorie Water Treatment Plants. Volker said the control-system upgrades had been declared an emergency by the board on April 15, 2024, the formal bidding requirement had been waived and a $2,600,000 budget was set for the overall upgrade. GHD, the project engineer, solicited proposals from Schneider Electric, Rockwell International and Coastal Industrial Technologies and recommended Coastal as the lowest qualified proposer. ‘‘Their bid total was $219,892.89,’’ Volker said. The board voted to award the cybersecurity contract to Coastal Industrial Technologies, contingent on contract finalization; Volker said the work would be billed to the Water 2023 bond. Recorded votes in favor were noted during the roll call and the motion carried unanimously.

For spare parts tied to the same control-system upgrades, Volker reported Elm Electric had previously been awarded the control-system work (Marjorie $405,292; Westlake $447,091) and later submitted a quote dated April 17, 2026 for parts only totaling $29,631. The board approved purchasing the spare parts, with the purchase to be charged to the Water 2023 bond.

Finally, public utilities presented a quote from Wright Pierce to perform preliminary engineering design for a new Foggy Camp pump station at the water pollution control plant. Volker said the proposed engineering services would be charged to sewer account OO49501532010 and that the not-to-exceed amount was $45,000. A motion to award the engineering contract to Wright Pierce was seconded by Dan Garrick and approved unanimously.

All four actions were moved and seconded at the meeting. Several items were explicitly tied to the emergency-declared control-system upgrade and charged to the Water 2023 bond; the pump-station work is to be charged to a sewer account. The board adjourned after the votes.