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A Resolution Authorizing the Village Manager to Contract with JB Contracting for Electrical Work in Connection with the Aquatic Center Project
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WHEREAS, the Village of Romeoville has heretofore entered into agreements with Harbour Contractors, Inc. for the provision of preconstruction and construction management services for the construction and development of the Aquatic Center project (the "Project"); and
WHEREAS, the Village and Harbour are in the process of soliciting proposals for work on the various portions of the Project, and desire the ability to flexibly and timely negotiate and contract with the various contractors providing proposals to the Village in order to facilitate the timely prosecution and completion of the Project in the manner most economically advantageous to the Village; and
WHEREAS, to provide the Village with the ability to flexibly negotiate and accept proposals and contracts pertaining to the performance of work on the Project, and to enable the Village to promptly secure proposals and contracts on terms most economically advantageous to the Village in the current contracting environment, it is in the best interests of the Village to authorize the Village Manager to enter into contracts and to accept proposals relating to the performance of work on the Project in an aggregate total amount not to exceed $15,000,000, subject to the subsequent ratification of all such contracts and proposals by the Village Board of Trustees, and the Board has heretofore adopted Resolution No. 21-3194 to so provide; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of 65 ILCS 5/8-9-1 and the provisions of the Village Ordinance No. 2793-00, the Village of Romeoville may by a two-thirds vote of its Trustees then holding office waive the requirements for public bidding on Village public work, or improvement projects; and
WHEREAS, it is now in the best interests of the Village to award a contract for electrical work to JB Contracting in an amount not to...
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