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Resolution to Approve Amendment No.1 to Contract with Huron Valley Electric to Provide and Install Photovoltaic Panels at Veterans Memorial Park Pool ($39,500.00)
Memorandum
City Council Resolution Number R-11-272 approved a contract with Pranam Global Tech, Inc. to construct shade structures at Veterans Memorial Park Pool that were to support a future photovoltaic (solar electric) installation. This project is part of the City’s matching fund requirement for the Solar America Cities grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The installation of the photovoltaic collectors was to be bid and contracted for separately after the completion of the shade structures.
The City has contracted with Huron Valley Electric (Resolution Number R-11-073) to install photovoltaic collectors at Fire Station #6. Proposed Amendment No. 1 to Huron Valley Electric’s contract is for the installation of the same type of photovoltaic collectors at a second location, Veterans Memorial Park Pool.
The amount of the original contract is $46,800.00. This project is to be funded from the Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) that the City has received from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
For each of these installations, the intention was that the City would purchase the photovoltaic collectors for the projects separately because the manufacturer, Uni-Solar, had agreed to sell solar collectors at a greatly reduced cost only to the City of Ann Arbor based on our Solar America Cities Partnership and would not offer the same price to contractors. However, City staff has not been able to procure the particular collectors from Uni-Solar to allow this approach to be implemented for these two projects.
As the timing for the Solar America Cities grant is coming to a close this spring, it has become necessary to shift to a contractor procurement and installation approach. The attached resolution will approve an amendment to Huron Valley Electric’s contract in the amount of...
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