Title
Dept/ Agency: Finance
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: EUS Contract
Purpose: Water and Sewer Debt Collection Services
Entity Name: Fortitude Business Solutions, LLC.
Entity Address: One Timber Way, Suite 200, Daphne, Alabama, 36527
Contract Amount: 15% of debt collected
Funding Source: Past due revenue collected
Contract Period: 365 days from formal Notice to Proceed with an option to extend for one (1) year
Contract Basis: ( ) Bid ( ) State Vendor ([ ]) Prof. Ser. ( X ) EUS
(X ) Fair & Open (X ) No Reportable Contributions (X ) RFP ( ) RFQ
( ) Private Sale ( ) Grant ( ) Sub-recipient ( ) n/a
Additional Information:
Proposals Received: 9
No City of Newark budget funds required as vendor is paid a percentage of the monies collected
Deferred 7R5-a (s) 032613
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WHEREAS, the City of Newark advertised a Request for Proposal (RFP) for Water and Sewer Debt Collection Services and nine proposals were received on July 27, 2012, and the proposal received from Fortitude Business Solutions,LLC. One Timber Way, Suite 200, Daphne, Alabama 36527, was found to be in the best interest of the City of Newark to accept; and
WHEREAS, the City of Newark wishes to enter into an Extraordinary Unspecifiable Services contract with Fortitude Business Solutions, LLC. One Timber Way, Suite 200, Daphne, Alabama 36527, to provide Water and Sewer Debt Collections for the City of Newark, Department of Finance; and
WHEREAS, the private collection of fees and charges is an extraordinary unspecified service, not required to be publicly bid pursuant to the Local Public Contracts Law, N.J.S.A. 40A:11-5(1)(a)(ii); 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 politica...
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