REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Award of Contract to Shredding Systems Incorporated in the Amount of $2,672,831.22 for a Pre-Load Compactor for the Sunnyvale Material Recovery and Transfer (SMaRT) Station NextGen Project and Approve a 7% Contingency in the Amount of $175,850 (F26-020)
Report
REPORT IN BRIEF
Approval is requested to award a contract in the amount of $2,672,831.22 to Shredding Systems Incorporated (SSI) of Wilsonville, OR for a pre-load compactor for the Sunnyvale Material Recovery and Transfer (SMaRT) Station NextGen Project. Approval is also requested for a 7% contingency of $175,850.
The amount corrects the previously approved contract amount (RTC No. 25-0307) of $2,549,829, which did not include sales tax. An additional $298,852.09 is required to cover sales tax and increase the contingency to 7% from the previously approved 1.5%.
EXISTING POLICY
Pursuant to Section 2.08.040 of the Sunnyvale Municipal Code, Council approval is required for the procurement of goods and/or services greater than $250,000 in any one transaction.
Section 2.08.070(b)(3) authorizes the purchase of goods and/or services to be exempted from the competitive bidding requirements when the solicitation of bids or proposals would be impractical, unavailing or impossible.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The City Council certified an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the SMaRT Station in 1990 (SCH #89022812). For the "NextGen Project", Addendum #3 (RTC No. 25-0307 - May 20, 2025) to the existing EIR has been prepared per the provisions of the State CEQA Guidelines to document the finding that none of the conditions or circumstances that would require preparation of a subsequent EIR, pursuant to Sections 15162 and 15164 of the State CEQA Guidelines.
Staff's review indicates that no major revisions are required to the Final EIR prepared for the SMaRT Station (1992) because the project will not cause any new significant environmental impacts that have not been identified in the ...
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