HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemoCITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO :
FROM:
Joe Arriola
City Manager
Laura L. Bi11beo, Director
Department of Public Facilities
DATE : FILE :
Emergency Finding: Authorization to
Purchase Slip Utility
Pedestals/Components at Dinner Key
REFERENCES 'arina & Miamarina
SUBJECT:
ENCLOSURES:
BACKGROUND
The City of Miami's Dinner Key Marina and Miamarina suffered extensive damage as a result of Hurricane
Wilma, particularly to those facilities' slip utility pedestals, electrical power transformers, and fire suppression
stations. Storm surge, wind and wave -driven debris, and customer vessels damaged or destroyed a significant
number of slip pedestals and their power transformers, which provide electrical, water, telephone, and CATV
services to customers' vessels at the marinas. Additionally, many Fire Suppression Stations at both marinas,
which house the fire alarm pull boxes, fire hoses, and fire extinguishers on the docks, were knocked down or
damaged during the hurricane. In order to repair this vital infrastructure and return basic utility and fire
suppression services to many of the over seven hundred customers at both marinas, it is necessary to purchase
replacement parts from Marina Power, Inc., the company that manufactured and provided the original pedestals,
components, and fire suppression stations at both marinas. This company is the sole provider of this equipment
and replacement components. Certification by Marina Power, Inc. that they are the manufacturer and sole
source of replacement components for their products is attached as part of this memorandum. The cost of
replacing or repairing the equipment described above, at both facilities, is projected to be $62,412.
FINDING
The Department of Public Facilities finds and determines that it is in the best interest of the City to expedite the
purchase and installation of slip utility pedestals, replacement pedestal components, electrical power
transformers and fire suppression stations at Dinner Key Marina and Miamarina, in order to restore basic utility
and safety services to those facilities as quickly as possible. The provider of the needed replacement equipment
and components is Marina Power, Inc. The projected cost of this emergency purchase is projected to be $62,412
allocating funds from the Hurricane Wilma account 800007.350603.6.670.
Your signature below will signify your concurrence with our findings and appropriate corrective action, and
your assimilation of these findings as justification for the determination of emergency and initiation of
emergency purchase of this equipment.
Joe r oia, City Manager
L II F : A
c: Jorge L. Fernandez, City Manager
Rafael Suarez -Rivas, Assistant City Attorney
Glenn Marcos, Director, Purchasing Department
MaryConway, Director, Capital Improvements & Transportation