BACKGROUND

The Municipal Partnering Initiative (MPI) is a working group of sixteen Chicagoland suburban municipalities which have been working together on group bids since the fall of 2010. Combining multiple municipal bids allows for lower pricing through greater quantities. The Village of Arlington Heights led a group of municipalities this year on a bid for “Cured in Place” (CIPP) Sewer Lining. Bids were duly advertised and publicly opened by the Village of Buffalo Grove on behalf of the Municipal Partnering Initiative on March 13, 2017.

CIPP lining is a non-destructive method of rehabilitating older sewers. This process “sleeves” the inside of older clay sewers with a new epoxy fiberglass resin. This method of rehabilitation is normally applied to sewers with cracking or a history of cave-ins at locations where open excavation repair is either too expensive, inaccessible or both. In this case we have several rear yard sanitary sewers that have visible cracks and are inaccessible. This work also includes reinstating the service connections to each home. The Village has been rehabilitating sanitary sewers through CIPP lining for five years. This program is part of a multi-year program to rehabilitate our aging sewer system. The 2017 budget includes $300,000 for this program.

This MPI bid was jointly collected for the Villages of Wheeling, Lincolnshire, Buffalo Grove, Rolling Meadows, Mount Prospect and Arlington Heights. The total bid price for all municipalities is listed below for the 2017 MPI Lining contract:

BIDDER                                        TOTAL

Hoerr Construction                    $1,961,912.00

Visu-Sewer                               $2,094,796.43

Insituform Technologies            $2,098,578.80

Michaels Corporation                 $2,492,525.00

SAK Construction                      $2,627,287.20

The Village successfully worked with the low bidder, Hoerr Construction in the past for the Sewer Lining Program. The bidder has been determined to be responsible and the bid meets specifications.

RECOMMENDATION

 It is recommended that the Village Board accept the bid received by the Municipal Partnering Initiative from the low responsible bidder, Hoerr Construction of Peoria, Illinois, for the CIPP Sewer Lining Program for the not-to-exceed amount of $300,000 for our portion, and further authorize execution of a contract.