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REPORT
REPORT TO:
Mayor Carl Zehr & Members of Council
DATE OF MEETING:
2010-04-19
SUBMITTED BY:
Larry Gordon, Director of Supply Services
PREPARED BY:
Rudy Kruppa, Buyer (2217)
WARD(S) INVOLVED:
3
DATE OF REPORT:
2010-04-13
REPORT NO:
FIN-10-066
SUBJECT:
P09-116 Splash Pad – McLennan Park
RECOMMENDATION:
That tender P09-116 Splash Pad – McLennan Park be awarded to ABC Recreation Ltd., Paris
at their proposed price of $333,136.35, plus G.S.T. of $16,656.82 and a contingency of
$25,000.00 for a total of $374,793.17.
BACKGROUND:
McLennan Park is a 39 hectare (97ac.) site on the south side of Ottawa Street South. The site
is a former landfill under Region of Waterloo ownership that began operations in the 1950’s and
was closed in 1976. A Masterplan for the park was approved by Kitchener City Council in June
2003 and a lease agreement with the Region of Waterloo was executed in November 2006.
Work on the first phase of the park development has been completed and final design for the
second phase is ongoing. The splash pad development forms part of the second phase which
also includes an accessible playground, washroom building, basketball and beach volleyball
courts, public art, great lawn, additional road and parking areas, skate park, picnic shelter, trails
and landscaping.
REPORT:
Proposals were requested from nine (9) potential suppliers, advertised publicly in The Record,
on the City of Kitchener website and the Ontario Public Buyers Electronic Tendering Information
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System. By the closing date of Thursday January 26, 2010 four (4) proposals had been
received.
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A Committee consisting of D. Ritz, Supervisor, Design/Development, R. Turner, Senior
Landscape Designer, GSP Group, the City’s Consultant on this project, E. Dent Supervisor,
Facilities Management, R. Kruppa, Buyer, as well was established to evaluate the proposals
based on play value, safety, cost, durability, appearance and warranty. The Committee concurs
with the above recommendation.
The following proposals were received:
ABC Recreation Ltd Paris ON *
Acapulco Pools Ltd Kitchener ON
Bomar Landscaping Guelph ON
Pine Valley Enterprises Inc Concord ON
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS:
Funding will be provided from Internal Orders 52000353, 14275, 52000011, 4043, and 155
Financial Report is attached.
HST may be charged on all or part of the contract amount, although the exact impact is not
determinable at this time. The project manager has confirmed that sufficient contingency exists
within the project budget to fund the cost of the non-rebatable portion of the HST should it
* Additional $125,000. will be transferred from existing Capital accounts as outlined in report
CSD-10-024
ACKNOWLEDGED BY:
Dan Chapman, General Manager of Financial Services and City
Treasurer
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