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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: Ian Wade, Capital Projects Manager
DATE: March 25, 2021
SUBJECT:
A Resolution selecting Utility Dynamics Corporation, 23 Commerce Drive, Oswego, IL 60543 as the City's Service Provider for Com Ed's Streetlights in Distressed Communities Program.
PURPOSE:
To select Utility Dynamics as the City's Service Provider for this program, which provides LED upgrades for the remaining City-owned streetlights which have not yet been upgraded at little to no cost.
BACKGROUND:
Using City funds and past incentive programs, the City has converted approximately 5,431 streetlights from high-pressure sodium (HPS) to Light Emitting Diode (LED) to date, with approximately 3,023 remaining to convert (see attached table for locations by Ward).
The City was recently identified by Com Ed as eligible for it's Streetlights in Distressed Communities Program. Unlike past Com Ed Energy Efficiency programs, which offered incentives directly to the City based on the reduction in wattage from HPS fixtures to new LED fixtures, the Streetlights in Distressed Communities Program offers fixed materials and labor incentives directly to a City-designated pre-qualified Service Provider.
It is the City's intention to take advantage of this opportunity to convert the remaining 3,023 fixtures throughout the City.
DISCUSSION:
Since the incentives of this program are fixed, but the cost of fixtures varies by brand and vendor, the City published a Request for Bids requesting pricing to furnish and install new fixtures and/or retrofit kits for the 3023 streetlights. The RFB identified the City's preferred brands for each style and wattage, which were consistent with the brands installed across the City to date, as well as an opportunity for bidders to propose pre-approved equivalent brands.
As shown on the attached bid tabulation, three of the six bidders submitted final bids of zero dollars. Of the three zero-dollar bids, only one offered to supply the Ci...
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