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INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO: Arthur Noriega V DATE: February 27, 2025
City Manager
Signed by:
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FROM: Juvenal Santana, P.E., C.F.M.
Director
Department of Resilience and Public Works
SUBJECT: Approval of finding to waive
Competitive sealed bidding methods
for MLK Blvd - Greater Miami Service Corp.
REFERENCES:
ENCLOSURES:
Pursuant to City Code Section, 18-85, amended, it is respectfully recommended that 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 project 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.
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Arthur Noriega V Date:
C: Asael Marrero, RA, RID, AIA, ICC, Assistant City Manager
Miriam Santana, Agenda Coordinator
Annie Perez, Director, Department of Procurement