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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: David E. Schumacher, P.E.; Superintendent of Water Production
DATE: March 26, 2020
SUBJECT:
A Resolution approving a Professional Services Agreement with Layne Christensen Company for the Water Production Division.
PURPOSE:
To obtain City Council approval to enter into a new, five-year Professional Services Agreement (PSA) with Layne Christensen Company (Layne), Aurora, IL, for professional services to include, but not limited to, water well maintenance, well equipment repair, and field services. The resolution also seeks to allow for administratively-approved extensions to the term of the PSA when mutually agreed upon by the Water Production Division and Layne, and executed by the Mayor, the Mayor's designee, or the Chief Financial Officer.
BACKGROUND:
The city originally entered into a five-year PSA with Layne in 2012 via resolution R12-290. Subsequently, the PSA was extended for 36 months in 2017 with the extension expiring in April, 2020. As the City of Aurora (city) utilizes well water for a significant portion of the city's water supply, the need for professional well maintenance and repair services is necessary and on-going to ensure a plentiful supply of raw groundwater for treatment from the city's fifteen deep and six shallow water wells. To this end, Layne has provided professional water well services to the city for nearly a century, dating back to the 1930's. Layne has grown to be a global water management, construction and drilling company with its primary Illinois service and technical support center located at 721 W. Illinois Avenue, Aurora, IL, which enables Layne to provide responsive, personal, and dedicated service to the city's Water Production Division (WPD).
Layne is recognized as the sole regional factory authorized source for repair services of Flowserve-Byron Jackson well pumps and motors. The pumping equipment utilized by the WPD in the city's wells has long been standardized to the Flowse...
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