RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, WAIVING THE FORMAL BIDDING PROVISIONS OF SECTION 1109 OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE UNDER THE UTILITIES PROJECT EXCEPTION THEREIN FOR THE SELECTION OF A QUALIFIED PANEL OF CONTRACTORS TO SUPPLEMENT RIVERSIDE REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL PLANT WORK FORCE FOR THE RIVERSIDE REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL PLANT, AND THE TEQUESQUITE LANDFILL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS UP TO $500,000 ON AN AS-NEEDED BASIS.
WHEREAS, the City of Riverside Public Works Department, Wastewater Division provides treatment of domestic and industrial wastewater generated within the City of Riverside (City) and the Community Service Districts (CSDs) of Highgrove, Rubidoux, Edgemont and Jurupa at the City’s Regional Water Quality Control Plant (RWQCP). This entails the operation of primary, secondary and tertiary treatment processes to produce high quality effluent that complies with all State and Federal requirements. The addition of Membrane Bioreactor System (MBR) treatment process under the 2017 Plant Expansion project has increased the treatment capacity from 30 Million Gallons per Day (MGD) to 54 Million Gallons per Day (MGD); and WHEREAS, on April 5, 2022, the City Council authorized the establishment of a construction services panel to support the Wastewater Division’s RWQCP capital improvement program on an as needed basis by adoption of Resolution No. 23839; and WHEREAS, the contractor panel master agreements expired on March 30, 2025; and WHEREAS, the City desires to establish a new construction services panel to support the Wastewater Division’s RWQCP capital improvement program on an as needed basis, and to waive the formal bidding requirements pursuant to Section 1109 of the City Charter for projects for the construction and/or improvement at RWQCP, and the Tequesquite Landfill on an as-needed basis; and WHEREAS, on May 29, 2025, the Public Works Department, Wastewater Division, issued a Request for Qualification seeking construction service including but not limited to proposals in order to assemble a panel of qualified contractors available to bid on and quickly perform such maintenance/repair/rehabilitation projects at RWQCP, and the Tequesquite Landfill on an as-needed basis (“Projects”); and WHEREAS, seven (7) Contractors were selected based on their performance history, availability of equipment, qualified manpower ability to conduct construction in a structured, efficient, and safe manner, and their competitive rates and fees; and WHEREAS, the contractors on the Panel are pre-qualified to bid on construction projects under a Master Agreements for Public Works Department, Wastewater Division, RWQCP Work for Various City Locations on an As-Needed Basis (“Master Agreement”). The Master Agreement incorporates all contractual requirements including bonding and insurance. When RWQCP requires work by a contractor, request for bids are sent out to all Panel members with their specific category. Bids are generally returned and opened within two weeks. Each bid is awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder by the Purchasing Division; and WHEREAS, RWQCP will only use the Panel for projects which are less than Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000); projects in excess of this amount are bid through the City’s formal competitive bidding process. Each contractor on the panel is limited to a cumulative project total of Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000) for a period of five (5) years. Through the Panel, RWQCP can use accelerated competitive bidding to pre-qualified contractors that have executed the Master Agreement that allow bids to be solicited, submitted, evaluated and the construction project to be awarded to the lowest responsible and responsive bidder within as little as fifteen business days as compared to the fifty-three business days, minimum, required for formal competitive bidding. Similar Panels maintained by other City departments have been successful in promoting the timely delivery of utility projects throughout the City; and WHEREAS, any contractor can join the Panel if the contractor meets the prerequisites listed in the Request for Qualifications and executes the Master Agreement; and WHEREAS, City Charter section 1109 provides that the City Council may, by at least five affirmative votes, waive the formal bidding requirements for projects for the construction and/or improvement of any public utility system operated by the City, which includes wastewater and storm drain systems; and WHEREAS, if the cost of construction of a project exceeds Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) during the course of construction, the City Council must approve such exceedance.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Riverside, California, based upon the reasons set forth herein and in the accompanying staff report and presentation, as follows:
Section 1: The formal competitive bidding requirements of Section 1109 of the Charter of the City of Riverside are hereby waived under the utilities project exception stated therein.
Section 2: The establishment of a Riverside Regional Water Quality Control Plant Contractors Panel is approved.
Section 3: The City Manager, or his designee, is authorized to issue purchase orders for the award of works of public construction to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder for construction not to exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) for projects advertised for bid under the Riverside Regional Water Quality Control Plant Contractors Panel.
ADOPTED by the City Council this _______ day of _______________, 2025. ___________________________
PATRICIA LOCK DAWSON
Mayor of the City of Riverside
Attest:
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DONESIA GAUSE
City Clerk of the City of Riverside
I, Donesia Gause, City Clerk of the City of Riverside, California, hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly and regularly introduced and adopted at a meeting of the City Council of said City at its meeting held on the _________day of _____________, 2025 by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes:
Noes:
Absent:
Abstain:
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Riverside, California, this ________ day of ______________, 2025. _________________________________
DONESIA GAUSE
City Clerk of the City of Riverside
312212 TAT 11/24/25
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