HomeMy WebLinkAboutBid Waiver MemoCITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO: Priscilla A. Thompson DATE: September 9, 2010 FILE
City Clerk
SUBJECT: Waiver of Competitive Bid
Action Community Center -
Fourth Amendment to
Agreement, Transportation
Services
FROM: Alice Bravo, DirectorREFERENCES:
Capital Improvements Department
ENCLOSURES:
BACKGROUND
Pursuant to Committee Substitute for House Bill (CS/HB) 1271, recently adopted by the Florida
Legislature, and signed by the Governor and effective July 1, 2010, which provides that the
expansion, operation, and maintenance of on -demand transportation services are an allowable
use of the Charter County Transit System Sales Surtax. Action Community Center has been
providing transportation for the elderly and the disabled since its inception in 1971. The
transportation services would be funded from the Transportation and Transit Special Revenue
Funds (the City's transit share of the half penny transportation surtax) to be used for pre-
arranged transportation services provided by Action Community Center, Inc.
FINDING
The Capital Improvements Department finds and determines that it is in the best interest of the
City to waive competitive bids and provide the services of Action Community Center Inc., for
pre -arranged transportation services for City of Miami residents who are low to moderate
income elderly and the disabled.
Action Community Center, a non-profit corporation, offers the City the most advantageous
agreement based on a combination of extensive experience, hands-on management, and local
resources and would minimize the adverse impact of reducing transportation services to many
transit dependent riders in Miami. To accomplish this it is necessary to waive the competitive
proposal process under City Code Section 18-85.
As provided in accordance with Sections 18-90 and 18-85 of the Code of the City of Miami, we
recommend that the City Manager affirm and adopt these findings and forward the matter to the
City Commission for its approval.
Your signature below it signify your concurrence with the above recommendation and your
acceptance of these indi gs as your own justification for the waiver of competitive bids and the
selection of the sp: ifi ` firm.
Approved:
Carlo" Migoya, City Manager