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Personal Services Agreement Amendment No. 2 with DeSantis Landscapes, Inc. for the Landscape Maintenance Services for the Street Division of Public Works
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RECOMMENDED ACTION (Motion):
Authorize the City Manager to execute Amendment No. 2 to the Personal Services Agreement (PSA) in the amount of $61,157.88 with DeSantis Landscapes, Inc. to provide landscaping services for the Street Division of Public Works (PS 16-023).
BACKGROUND:
Oregon City is responsible for a variety of ongoing landscape maintenance including approximately 132 sites and 42 acres of rights-of-way, street medians, facilities, water pump stations, and reservoirs. The City’s ongoing landscape maintenance projects can generally be categorized into these five types of properties: Stormwater Division, Street Division, Water Division, Sanitary Division, and Urban Renewal.
The City’s previous landscape contracts reached the end of the original contract terms in April 2016. The City solicited proposals from qualified landscape maintenance service providers beginning in March 2016. A total of seven proposals were received and reviewed by staff. The two-year Street Division contract was awarded to ValleyScapes, Inc. on April 20, 2016, to perform landscape maintenance services. However, the City chose to terminate the contract with ValleyScapes, Inc. effective September 30, 2016, and entered into a landscape maintenance service contract with the second highest scoring contractor, DeSantis Landscapes, Inc., for the remainder of the two-year term (nineteen months).
The contract with DeSantis Landscapes, Inc. stipulates that after the original contract duration, the contract could be extended for up to three (3) additional one-year terms. The first amendment to the original contract expired on April 30, 2019, and Public Works Department would like to exercise the right to extend the contract term for one more year. In addition, a 5.6% increase has been applied to the one-year Amendment to ref...
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