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Consider recommendations regarding a Request for Waiver on Competition in the purchase of a tertiary filtration permeate pump process skid replacement at the Laguna County Sanitation District Wastewater Reclamation Plant, Third District, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)
Acting as the Board of Directors, Laguna County Sanitation District:
a) Approve Budget Revision Request No. 0009141 in the amount of $391,300.00 (25% of total equipment cost), to purchase a tertiary filtration permeate pump skid replacement for fiscal year 2023-2024, funded by the release of Retained Earnings;
b) Authorize the County Purchasing Agent to waive competitive bidding requirements per County Code Section 2-39(c) to procure a tertiary filtration permeate pump skid replacement in an amount not to exceed $1,564,975.65 (base price of $1,320,376.00 plus sales tax of $102,329.14 and a 10% contingency of $142,270.51) from Veolia Water Technologies (formerly Suez Water Technologies and Solutions and parent company of Zenon), not a local vendor, without being required to conduct a formal bid process; and
c) Determine that the proposed action is for the minor alteration of existing public facilities involving no expansion of the use beyond that which presently exists, and that the proposed action is therefore exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to 14 CCR Section 15301.