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I Motion by Marks, seconded by Sundland to approve payment of $1,296.00 <br />2 to Copy Duplicating Products, Inc. under the annual maintenance <br />3 agreement for the City's Minolta copying machine. <br />4 <br />Motion carried unanimouslv. <br />5 Motion by Makowske, seconded by Enrooth to approve payment of <br />6 $26,082.04 to the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission for June sewer <br />7 services. <br />W <br />9 NEW BUSINESS <br />10 <br />11 <br />Motion carried unanimously. <br />12 When Councilmember Marks questioned why there should have been such a <br />13 difference between Calgon's bid of $325,730.00 and Carbon Air Ser - <br />14 vice's bid of $688,407.00, Mr. Childs; Dale Watson, the RCM Project <br />15 Manager; and Hank Kaufmann of Calgon, indicated: <br />16 *Carbon Air had submitted an inordinately high bid rather than <br />17 Calgon being too low; <br />18 *the specs had been drawn in such a manner as to allow each <br />19 bidder to design its own system and great pains had been taken <br />0 to assure Calgon wouldn't have a monopoly on the carbon just <br />21 because they are one of the major manufacturers of the carbon <br />22 cylinders; <br />23 *other bidders would not have been precluded from going to some <br />24 other manufacturer for their carbon and/or equipment; <br />25 *Carbon Air had proposed more, but smaller, cylinders but the <br />26 engineers had perceived Calgon's bid had been complete and <br />27 adequate to meet the project specifications; <br />28 *as a further indication that Calgon didn't have a monopoly, it <br />29 was pointed out that Carbon Air had been awarded the New Brigh- <br />30 ton project where the specs called for the removal of phosphorus <br />31 for potential discharge in surface water which would not be <br />32 necessary in St. Anthony. <br />33 It was further indicated that RCM had included $455,000.00 in their <br />34 cost estimates, which would cover work to be done by the City to <br />35 include site preparation and winterizing construction of the pads; <br />36 some of the electrical and process piping, as well as engineering, ad - <br />37 ministration and contingency costs. When Calgon's base bid price is <br />38 added to these costs, the total is very close to what the engineers <br />39 estimated the project cost would be, Mr. Childs indicated. <br />3 <br />