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Agency: Sourcewell
Division: Procurement Department
Contract Number: 080521
Contract Term: 4 years, with potential 1 year extension Date of Issue: 06/17/2021
Due Date/Time: 08/05/2021 4:30 PM
Central Time
County(ies): All NYS counties
Classification: Construction Horizontal: Highways & Roadways; Maintenance, Repair & New Construction - Commodities
Opportunity Type: General
Entered By: Chris Robinson
Description: Sourcewell, a State of Minnesota local government unit and service cooperative, is requesting proposals for Roadway Maintenance Equipment to result in a contracting solution for use by its Participating Entities. Sourcewell Participating Entities include thousands of governmental, higher education, K-12 education, nonprofit, tribal government, and other public agencies located in the United States and Canada. A full copy of the Request for Proposals can be found on the Sourcewell Procurement Portal [https://proportal .sourcewell-mn.gov]. Only proposals submitted through the Sourcewell Procurement Portal will be considered. Proposals are due no later than August 5, 2021, at 4:30 p.m. Central Time, and late proposals will not be considered.
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Contact Information
Primary contact: Sourcewell
Procurement Department
Chris Robinson
Procurement Manager
202 12th Street NE
P.O. Box 219
Staples, MN 56479
United States
Ph: 218-895-4168
[email protected]
Submit to contact: Sourcewell
Procurement Department
Chris Robinson
Procurement Manager
202 12th Street NE
P.O. Box 219
Staples, MN 56479
United States
Ph: 218-895-4168
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who is in his 13th season and says MLB’s
foreign substance crackdown “is not go-
ing to affect me at all.
“I don’t think it’s, ‘OK, this guy’s spin
rate’s down, his slider’s not as good, his
fastball’s not jumping as much, so it
must be sticky.’ The way things are
these days, people will jump to conclu-
sions. But it’s not always the right one.”
MLB’s announcement Tuesday that
beginning Monday it will instruct um-
pires to vigorously enforce rules against
foreign substance use comes after years
of players pushing the rulebook too far,
leaping from the gentlemanly and ac-
cepted use of pine tar to more complex
and impactful products like Spider
Tack, stuff that crosses the line from
control aid to performance enhancer.
And so, not unlike the great awaken-
ing on steroid use at the turn of this cen-
tury, the hunt is on.
Who’s been gooping up?
And who’s going to get shelled when
they stop?
This will be an inquisition unlike any
we’ve seen.
When batters and pitchers alike
juiced up with steroids, growth hor-
mones and other PEDs for much of the
1990s and 2000s, the lone evidence was
in physical changes to a player or a spike
in their slugging percentage or strikeout
rates. In the absence of drug testing,
which did not begin until 2003, some
players were so blatant in their usage
that fans could reasonably intuit some-
thing was amiss based on performance.
Meanwhile, dozens of others skated
past the suspicion and even received a
lifetime immunity of sorts if they were
not entangled in the Mitchell Report,
MLB’s 2007 investigation into PED use
that implicated nearly 100 players yet
was far from an exhaustive accounting
of PED use.
Now, in the great sticky crackdown of
2021?
Observers need only point their
browsers to a player’s statistical per-
formance and his spin rate data, easily
accessible on Baseball Savant, an ad-
vanced-metrics website now under
MLB’s umbrella.
Was Bieber’s poor performance inju-
ry related or because he swore off for-
eign substances? Is a 12% drop in spin
on his curveball from an early April start
to a June 3 start – two days after MLB
informed owners a crackdown was
coming – due to substance cessation or
any of the dozens of factors, including
health, that affect pitching perform-
ance?
With umpires authorized to shake
down pitchers multiple times a game,
those caught red-handed – or on their
belt, glove, cap, shoes, whatever – will
be nailed in plain sight and suspended.
Those who suddenly regress, with ei-
ther their spin rate plummeting or their
ERA soaring, may find themselves in-
dicted in the court of public opinion
without physical evidence.
“In the steroid era, if someone was
good, it was automatically, ‘He’s on ster-
oids,’ ” Red Sox reliever Matt Barnes
said after Boston’s previously solid
pitching staff was pounded for 53 runs
over six games last week. “The easiest
way to justify someone being bad or
good over a stretch is something other
than what it really is. It’s just the easiest
way to talk about it. That’s what hap-
pens when you play 162 games. There’s
too many games to stay at an elite level
for every single one of them.
“(Foreign substances) just seems like
an easy way out.”
Indeed, a Boston Globe analysis of
Red Sox pitchers revealed no substan-
tial drop in pitcher spin rate during their
staffwide slump, which also came in the
days following the news of the impend-
ing crackdown.
The cat-and-mouse game between
players and the game’s enforcement
wing will now be enhanced – the cat, in
this case, umpires, will be ordered to
check pitchers multiple times a game.
Balls and, if necessary, equipment will
be collected as evidence. Yet rooting out
all foreign substance use is virtually im-
possible – particularly if pitchers in-
spected and found to be clean are em-
boldened.
“You’re not supposed to break the
speed limit, too. But you do. You know
what I’m saying?” says Astros manager
Dusty Baker.
Meanwhile, much of the rhetoric
from the steroids era has returned, with
players and executives either claiming/
feigning ignorance or welcoming scruti-
ny, taking Detwiler’s tack that they have
nothing to hide. Yankees GM Brian
Cashman said Tuesday that he’d “never
heard of Spider Tack until three weeks
ago. Honest to God.”
That would put him at odds with the
dozens of players who have either used
it or experimented with it or chatted
about it in long walks to the outfield to
shag fly balls or the many hours of dead
time spent with comrades in the bull-
pen.
Many will be fighting a public per-
ception battle wrought by one of their
peers. Dodgers starter Trevor Bauer
claimed in 2020 that upward of 70% of
pitchers use foreign substances. In
2018, he essentially confirmed he ex-
perimented with a pine tar mixture dur-
ing the first inning of one start, if only to
illustrate how that one-inning spike in
spin rate proved the efficacy of foreign
substances.
And after perhaps joining them in-
stead of trying to beat them, his spin
rates soared as he won the 2020 Nation-
al League Cy Young Award, and then
dipped in recent weeks.
Perhaps he laid off the stuff. Perhaps
he’ll turn back into a league average-ish
pitcher post-crackdown, albeit after se-
curing $102 million over three years
from the Dodgers.
And perhaps only the tincture of time
can tell us the whole story – eager
though we might be to scamper online,
calculate a dip in spin rate and convict
the guilty party.
“I think false correlations are made
every single day,” says Brewers manager
Craig Counsell. “Every player in there
deals with a false correlation nearly ev-
ery day he plays the game. It’s part of
being a professional athlete, especially
the world these athletes live in with so-
cial media.
“I don’t think it’ll be that obvious. I
think there’s going to be adjustment pe-
riods and then it will all go back to nor-
mal. Good players are going to be good
players.”
MLB
Continued from Page 1C
MLB’s enforcement crackdown will
begin Monday. JAE C. HONG/AP
But more than any other day this sea-
son, Wednesday felt like the breaking
point to acknowledge that what the NBA
tried to pull off this year was a mistake if
any part of its goal was to have enough
healthy players to have a playoff worth
caring about.
Of the eight teams that made the
quarterfinals this season, seven will
have to either overcome a serious injury
to a key player in the playoffs or have a
built-in excuse because of it. The eighth
team, the Suns – who are resting com-
fortably awaiting the Western Confer-
ence finals – now have to deal with the
uncertainty of Chris Paul reportedly en-
tering COVID-19 health and safety pro-
tocols.
Some percentage of this is the cost of
doing business. Injuries do happen, and
they’ll never be eliminated as a factor in
any team’s destiny.
But when you’ve got Kawhi Leonard
sidelined with an ACL injury now, the
Jazz uncertain when or if Mike Conley
will be available due to a hamstring, Joel
Embiid laboring on a torn meniscus for
the 76ers, and the Nets having to do this
with Kyrie Irving and James Harden go-
ing in and out of the lineup, there’s a
trend that can’t be ignored. When the
players who are carrying the biggest
load night in and night out for these
teams are struggling to stay healthy
amid this crazy schedule, it doesn’t feel
like a coincidence.
To expand it out even further, eight
different All-Stars have missed a playoff
game this season, and that doesn’t even
account for the anterior cruciate liga-
ment injury to Jamal Murray that basi-
cally ended Denver’s chances of win-
ning a title, De’Andre Hunter having me-
niscus surgery after Atlanta’s first-
round win over the Knicks or Donte Di-
Vincenzo suffering a season-ending
foot injury during Milwaukee’s first-
round series against Miami.
This isn’t normal, and it needs to
spark some serious conversations with-
in the league about the appropriate
number of games in the season, playing
back-to-backs, adding rest periods
within the season, cutting down on trav-
el, and much more. Everything should
be on the table.
The hard part is that intelligent peo-
ple in sports – and NBA executives are
nothing if not intelligent – prefer that
their decisions be driven by numbers.
They don’t want to make big changes in
response to a small set of data points,
and the NBA ’s publicly stated position
has been that injuries were not worse
this year versus past years.
But the eye test and common sense
have to apply here, too. What the NBA
schedule demanded of its players this
season was insanity: lots of three-game
in four night stretches, plenty of back-
to-backs with travel in between, and
precious few opportunities for teams to
catch their breath or get healthy. Having
star players break down right and left
with soft tissue injuries, especially dur-
ing the playoffs, was always a logical
outcome of putting them through a con-
densed schedule.
Now it’s reality.
Some will say that James’ told-you-
so critique of the way this season played
out has echoes of sour grapes. He never
quite got right after suffering a high an-
kle sprain on March 20, and the Lakers
pretty much reached the end of the line
when Anthony Davis went down with a
groin injury in Game 4 against the Suns.
But his point about what the NBA ’s
goals should be is worth taking serious-
ly for next season and beyond. Without
acknowledging the mistake of this
schedule and the health of players being
better taken into account in the future,
this seems likely to happen again.
If these playoffs are ultimately little
more than a test of attrition, so be it.
Crown the worthy champion and move
on. But trading a quality playoff product
for regular season revenue is not a strat-
egy that will do anything for the NBA ’s
appeal over the long term.
With this latest batch of injuries, per-
haps the league will finally acknowledge
that something needs to be fixed.
Wolken
Continued from Page 1C
Superstar forward LeBron James played only 45 of the Lakers’ 72 games this season. ASHLEY LANDIS/AP
NBA
Best-of-seven; x-if necessary
Eastern Conference semifinals
Brooklyn vs. Milwaukee,
Brooklyn leads 3-2
Tuesday: Brooklyn won 114-108
Thursday: at Milwaukee, 8:30 ET (ESPN)
x-Saturday: at Brooklyn, TBD (TNT)
Philadelphia vs. Atlanta, tied 2-2
Wednesday: Atlanta at Philadelphia
Friday: Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7:30 ET
(ESPN)
x-Sunday: Atlanta at Philadelphia, TBD
Western Conference semifinals
Phoenix vs. Denver, Phoenix won 4-0
Utah vs. LA Clippers, tied 2-2
Wednesday: at Utah
Friday: at LA Clippers, 10 ET (ESPN)
x-Sunday: at Utah, TBD
Sourcewell, a State of Minnesota local government unit and service cooperative, is requesting proposals for Roadway Maintenance Equipment to result in a contracting solution for use by its Participating Entities.
Sourcewell Participating Entities include thousands of
governmental, higher education, K-12 education, nonprofit, tribal government, and other public agencies located in the United States and Canada.
A full copy of the Request for Proposals can be
found on the Sourcewell Procurement Portal
https://proportal.sourcewell-mn.gov.
Only proposals submitted through the Sourcewell
Procurement Portal will be considered.
Proposals are due no later than August 5, 2021, at 4:30pm Central Time, and late proposals will not be considered.
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