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• 1 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 Motion carried unanimously. <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 /> 8 Motion carried unanimously. <br /> 9 NEW BUSINESS <br /> 10 Calgon Carbon Corporation' s Bid of $325 ,730. 00 Accepted for Temporary <br /> 11 Carbon Filtration System at Water Treatment Plant <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 /> 20 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 />