Title
Dept/ Agency: Water & Sewer Utilities
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Professional Services Contract
Purpose: For Phase II of site remediation of underground storage tank located at the Little Falls Office
Entity Name: Dresdner Robin Environmental Management, Inc.
Entity Address: 1 Evertrust Plaza Suite 901, Jersey City, New Jersey 07302
Contract Amount: Amount not to exceed $27,500.00
Funding Source: City of Newark/Department of Water and Sewer Utilities Budget
Contract Period: One (1) year from the date of adoption of this authorizing resolution by the Municipal Council
Contract Basis: ( ) Bid ( ) State Vendor (X) Prof. Ser. ( ) EUS
( ) Fair & Open (X) No Reportable Contributions ( ) RFP ( ) RFQ
( ) Private Sale ( ) Grant ( ) Sub-recipient ( ) n/a
Additional Information:
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WHEREAS, pursuant to the New Jersey Site Remediation Reform Act (N.J.S.A. 58:10C-1, et seq.), the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“NJDEP”) assigned the City of Newark, Department of Water and Sewer Utilities, (“City”) Case Number 93-05-11-1536, requiring the City to hire a Licensed Site Remediation Professional (“LSRP”) to perform site remediation at the City’s facility located at 1294 McBride Avenue, Little Falls, New Jersey 07424 (the “Property”), due to the leaking of an underground storage tank; and
WHEREAS, specifically the NJDEP has required the City to perform continued remediation procedures for monitoring, sampling, reporting and soil remediation at the Property; and
WHEREAS, Dresdner Robin Environmental Management Inc., has been providing efficient and quality services for the underground storage tank remediation at the Property since May of 1993, when a storage tank leak was discovered; and
WHEREAS, on March 10, 2015, Dresdner Robin Environmental Management Inc., 1 Evertrust Plaza Suite 901, Jersey City, New Jersey 07302, submitted a proposal to the City to continue to provide Phase-2 of the above-referenced professional site remediation services at the Property for an amount not to exceed Twenty-Seven Thousand Five Hundred and Zero Cents ($27,500.00); and
WHEREAS, the City wishes to accept the proposal and enter into and execute a professional services agreement with Dresdner Robin Environmental Management, Inc., in the form attached hereto, to provide the above-referenced phase-2 professional site remediation services at the Property, for the amount not to exceed $27,500.00; and
WHEREAS, this professional services agreement is for an amount over $17,500.00 and is being awarded through the “non-fair and open process” pursuant to N.J.S.A. 19:44A-20.5; and
WHEREAS, the provision of the Local Public Contracts Law, N.J.S.A. 40A:11-5(1)(a)(i) authorizes the award of professional services agreements without public advertising for bids and bidding and requires that the contract be made available for public inspection; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor of the City of Newark signed into law Executive Order Number MEO-07-0001 (hereinafter “Pay-to-Play Executive Order”) which requires reporting of political contributions to Newark Municipal Candidates and prohibits certain political contributions during the duration of the contract; and
WHEREAS, the Municipal Council adopted the Contractor Pay-to-Play Reform Ordinance, R.O. 2:4-22C, which forbids the award of a contract to a Business Entity, as defined therein, which has made or solicited political contributions to Newark Municipal Candidates, office holders having ultimate responsibility for the award of a contract; candidate committees of the City of Newark or County of Essex; and continuing political committees or political action committees regularly engaged in the support of the City of Newark municipal or County of Essex elections; and certain other political party or candidate committees, in excess of certain thresholds.
WHEREAS, Dresdner Robin Environmental Management Inc., has completed and submitted a Business Entity Disclosure Certificate which certifies that Dresdner Robin Environmental Management, Inc. has not made any reportable contributions to a political or candidate committee in the City of Newark in the previous one year, and that the contract will prohibit Dresdner Robin Environmental Management, Inc., from making any reportable contributions through the term of the contract.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, THAT:
1. The Mayor and/or his designee, the Director of the Department of Water and Sewer Utilities are hereby authorized on behalf of the City of Newark to enter into and execute a professional services agreement with Dresdner Robin Environmental Management Inc., 1 Evertrust Plaza Suite 901, Jersey City, New Jersey 07302, in the form attached hereto, to provide phase-2 professional site remediation services at the City’s facility located at 1294 McBride Avenue, Little Falls, New Jersey 07424 (the “Property”), due to the leaking of an underground storage tank, for and amount not to exceed Twenty-Seven Thousand Five Hundred and Zero Cents ($27,500.00).
2. The term of this professional services agreement shall be for a period of one (1) year from the date that this agreement is authorized by the Newark Municipal Council.
3. Pursuant to N.J.A.C. 5:30-5.5(a), attached hereto is a Certification of Funds from the Comptroller of the City of Newark which states that there are legally appropriated funds in the amount of $27,500.00, for the purposes set forth hereinabove, which shall be provided from the following line appropriations of the official municipal budget:
Business Unit Department ID Div/Proj. Account Bud. Ref.
NW037 750 7502 71280 B2015
4. No changes to this professional services agreement are allowed or authorized without prior Municipal Council approval.
5. There shall be no advance payments made against this professional services agreement in accordance with N.J.A.C. 40A: 5-16.
6. A fully executed copy of the professional services agreement and the certification of funds shall be filed in the Office of the City Clerk by the Director of the Department of Water and Sewer Utilities.
7. This professional services agreement is being awarded without public bidding pursuant to the provisions of the Local Public Contracts Law, N.J.S.A. 40A:-5(1)(a)(i) because the services are to be performed by a person or persons whose performance requires knowledge of and advanced type in a field of learning acquired by prolonged formal course of specialized study.
8. This professional services agreement is being awarded pursuant to the non-fair and open procedures of the Pay-to-Play Law N.J.S.A.19:44A-20.5 and pursuant to the provisions of the Local Public Contract Law N.J.S.A. 40A:11-5 (1) (a) (i), and is in compliance with Executive Order MEO-07-0001, effective March 31, 2007; and is in compliance with the Contractor Pay-to-Play Reform Ordinance, R.O. 2:4-22C.
9. Dresdner Robin Environmental Management, Inc., has completed and submitted a Business Entity Disclosure Certificate which certifies that Dresdner Robin Environmental Management, Inc., has not made any reportable contributions to a political or candidate committee in the City of Newark in the previous one year, and that the contract will prohibit Dresdner Robin Environmental Management, Inc., from making any reportable contributions through the term of the contract.
10. A notice of this action will be published in the newspaper as required by law, within ten (10) days of its passage.
STATEMENT
This resolution authorizes the Mayor and/or his designee, the Director of the Department of Water and Sewer Utilities to enter into and execute a professional services agreement with Dresdner Robin Environmental Management, Inc., 1 Evertrust Plaza Suite 901, Jersey City, New Jersey 07304, on behalf of the City of Newark, to provide Phase-2 professional site remediation services at the City’s facility located at 1294 McBride Avenue, Little Falls, New Jersey 07424 (the “Property”), due to the leaking of an underground storage tank, for an amount not to exceed Twenty-seven Thousand Five Hundred and Zero Cents ($27,500.00), for a period of one (1) year from the date that this contract is authorized by the Newark Municipal Council.