Title
Environmental Lab Testing - Request for Award (Ordinance S-47865)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to enter into separate agreements with Legend Technical Services of Arizona and Eurofins NDSC Environment Testing Americas, Inc., to provide Environmental Lab Services for the purpose of providing routine environmental testing and analyses on an as-needed basis. Further request to authorize for the City Controller to disburse all funds related to this item. The aggregate agreements value will not exceed $2.5 million.
Report
Summary
The purpose of this agreement is to provide water quality testing and analysis services for the Water Services Department’s Environmental Services Division (ESD), to ensure the City is providing safe drinking water and processing wastewater in compliance with federal, state and local regulations. Contractor services also ensure ESD’s laboratory maintains National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference accreditation.
Offeror’s services include but are not limited to: performing analytical testing to ensure compliance with federal, state and local regulations, providing backup to ESD’s in-house laboratory, and providing analytical testing methods for which ESD’s laboratory is not accredited.
Procurement Information
The recommendations were made using a Request for Proposal procurement process in accordance with City of Phoenix Administrative Regulation 3.10.
Three vendors submitted proposals and are listed below. All responses, except for one, were found to be responsive and responsible.
The evaluation panel recommendations were reached by consensus in consideration of published selection criteria with total points ranging from 0-1,000:
Qualifications and Experience (0-350 points)
Laboratory Capability and Capacity (0-250 points)
Quality Assurance and Quality Control (0-250 points)
Pricing (0-150 points)
Offerors Selected for Award
Legend Technical Services of Arizona - 830.9 points
Eurofins NDSC Environment Testing Americas, Inc. - 749.2 points
Contract Term
The agreement will begin on or about Oct. 1, 2021, for a five-year aggregate term with no options to extend.
Financial Impact
The total aggregate value for the agreements with Legend Technical Services of Arizona and Eurofins NDSC Environment Testing Americas, Inc. will not exceed $2.5 million.
Funding is available in the Water Services Department's Operating budget.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Manager Karen Peters and the Water Services Department.