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MEMO Tot Clerk-Adrinisttttor and City Council Director ,f Puhlic Works/Community Devel,pmvnt FROM: Public W, rks t'-reman/HuiWing Inspector DATE: February 1, PP 16 suBJECT: THACFOR itWKHnt 'LOADER PURCHASE For your review, tl ori,i-nal Aids will he in a file in the library over th,i w ken,! :hould vnu wish to look at them individually. The City received bid-; for the tractor back hoe/loader. We are pleased to ann., mce that the base price for the bids all fell within the hitotetra! .Amount of $70,000 for the purchase of the piece of eo,,ipment. Attached is a copy of a summary of the bids listimi the mike and model, spec requir--ments, base price, option and price with options. After reviewing ami calling references for the bids, staff I recommend that the low bidder ,)f either JCB Models 1550 B or 1700 H w, ild be our choice of purchase. Due to the price differem es on some of the makes and models bid, we called only tho• - references of the Ford Tractor and JCB. All JCB refeivnces spoke highly of the JCB machinery with the exreption of the fact that during the late 1970's or early 1980's JCh was having difficulties with certain aspects of their tractor. Based on references to date, those problems 30e1- to h.,ve been resolved and no longer exist. The Ford r terenr.ts called basically had no problem with their machinery. Staff would like to note that most of tilt dealers that tl.-! In. %competition stated that the City should not purchase .JCB and that either the Fnrd or Case would he a better porches,-. They also stated that JCB was not stable in the market. They further stated that they would supply us wish references that would state that JCB was a prohlem pier, of a,phipment. To date, none of the dealers have some birth with the so called "bad references". In c,llinq references, we did not find anything that would indicate that JCB is a less than desirable piece of ••quilunent to purchase. It is quite obvious that .JCB, t,einq that they ana manufactured in England and dssemblod in this country, is lust trying to make a foot -hold in the competition against John Deere, Ford, Case and Max;oy-Ferguson in this case. The maintenance mop all had an opportunity to use the JCS at great length be.�au;,' we had a demo for over a month. The majority of the men indt-•ated that the JCB would be their first choice. Als-, if you wete to look at. a JCB pike of I as oppos-d to the others, especially the Ford, the JCB looks to be built stronger (t.e., size of hydraulics and crucial pivic point-t).