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File #: AR-2025-0532    Version: 2 Name:
Type: Consent Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 12/16/2025 In control: City Council
On agenda: 2/2/2026 Final action:
Title: Request to award and to authorize the City Manager to execute a contract with Vortex Services LLC in the amount of $725,601.00 for the Rehabilitation of Sanitary Sewer Lines and Manholes, Community Development Block Grant Neighborhood Revitalization (CDBG-NR) project (ITB 26-PW-01).
Attachments: 1. Construction_Contract Vortex, 2. Declaration_Statement Vortex, 3. Cobra Environmental Email, 4. Aaron Wolfe response 12-12, 5. Grant Administrator Response, 6. City Response, 7. Additional email from Cobra, 8. Edgewater Sanitary Sewer Lining Bid Compilation, 9. ITB-26-PW-01 City of Edgewater Sewer Lining Bid Recommendation Letter - KHA, 10. Cobra Formal Protest documents, 11. Cobra Protest Withdrawl email and letter, 12. Letter from City to Cobra Environmental Regarding Bid Protest
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COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM

SUBJECT:
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Request to award and to authorize the City Manager to execute a contract with Vortex Services LLC in the amount of $725,601.00 for the Rehabilitation of Sanitary Sewer Lines and Manholes, Community Development Block Grant Neighborhood Revitalization (CDBG-NR) project (ITB 26-PW-01).
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DEPARTMENT:
Finance

SUMMARY:
The City of Edgewater issued Invitation to Bid ITB 26-PW-01 on November 5, 2025 with the sole purpose and intent of obtaining bids from qualified and licensed contractors for Rehabilitation of Sanitary Sewer Lines and Manholes, Community Development Block Grant Neighborhood Revitalization (CDBG-NR) project, funded by FloridaCommerce.

This Solicitation was broadcast via the City's E-Procurement Platform, as well as via DemandStar/Euna OpenBids, and the State of Florida DMS - Office of Supplier Diversity site, published in the Daytona Beach News Journal, and posted in City Hall.

On December 9, 2025, seven (7) bids were submitted and one (1) no-bid was received. All seven (7) bids were deemed responsive and responsible.

The bids were as follows:

Vendor Base Bid Bid Alternate Total
Vortex Services LLC $384,003.00 $341,598.00 $725,601.00
Insituform Technologies, LLC $420,440.00 $322,680.00 $743,120.00
Cobra Environmental Inc $439,528.20 $474,653.00 $914,181.20
Rowland DE LLC. $527,918.00 $347,550.00 $875,468.00
LMR Construction, Inc. $591,840.00 $297,650.00 $889,490.00
Atlantic Pipe Services, LLC $686,792.92 $202,459.72 $889,252.65
GCU, LLC DBA Gulf Coast $901,674.50 $578,555.00 $1,480,229.50
Underground, LLC

Per the Bid Specifications (Attachment B of the bid document) Basis of Award Section 1.14A - The Owner reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids in whole or in part with or without cause, to waive technicalities, or to accept the bid(s) which, in its judgment, best serves the interest of the Owner.

The cities Engineering Consultant Firm, Kimley-Horn Associates,...

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