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INTER -OFFICE
MEMORANDUM
TO: Arthur Noriega V
City Manager
FROM: Juvenal Santana, P.E., CFM
Director — Public Works
Department of Resilience and Public Works
DATE: April 21, 2022
SUBJECT:
Approval of finding to waive
Competitive sealed bidding methods for MLK
Blvd — Greater Miami Service Corp.
REFERENCES:
ENCLOSURES:
Pursuant to section, 18-85, amended, it is respectfully recommended that you as the City Manager, waive
competitive sealed bidding methods via this written finding and reasons herein. Said waiver shall need to be
ratified, confirmed, and approved by the Miami City Commision by four -fifths (4/5ths) affirmative vote during an
advertised public hearing.
These are my written findings waiving the requirements for competitive sealed bidding methods as not being
practicable or advantages to the City of Miami for the maintenance and beautification of Martin Luther King
Boulevard insofar as an agreement with Greater Miami Services Corps. ("GMSC") to perform certain work is
reached.
GMSC was established in 1990 as a Florida Not for Profit Corporation, youth service organization. The agency
is based in the City of Miami at 810 NW 28th Street, Miami, Florida 33127. GMSC provides professional
employment and training services to out -of -school youth between the ages of 18-24 and is a cost-effective
way to implement landscaping and beautification services. GMSC provides similar services for the City of
Miami, Miami -Dade County, Florida Department of Transportation and the National Park Service as part of the
goal to engage young people in projects that allow them to become stakeholders in their local community.
Youth engaged in this projects will be City of Miami residents and will receive professional services that
include improving their educational levels through GED, high school and/or occupational credentials, life skills
training, comprehensive case management and leadership development while at the same time gaining
marketable skills they can use in the workplace. Members will also participate in non -violence workshops to
promote peace and provide techniques for conflict resolution. GMSC can competently, expeditiously and
responsively perform this work.
If the City Commission concurs, and ratifies, my finding by a fourth -fifths vote, the City Administration will
proceed to negotiate and execute an Agreement with GMSC for their performance this work.
Your signature below confirms your approval of waiving competetive sealed bidding methods for the
landscaping and beautification services.
APPROVED i' i '� Date:
— Arthur Noriega V, City Manager
c: Miriam Santana, Agenda Coordinator
Annie Perez, Director, Procurement Department
Victoria Mendez, City Attorney