The city's plans for landfill expansion moved ahead on Monday evening, as Prince Rupert City Council approved a contract award to CT Northern Contractors, which provided the best bid in the opinion of city staff of the six applications received from the recent competition.
The City's Director of Operations Richard Pucci outlined the details of that competition, noting how after review the 6 million dollar plus work was best in the hands of CT Northern Contractors Alliance a local consortium which features local First Nation involvement.
The industrial group has established a strong foothold of late on a number of high profile projects in the region, particularly when it comes to development of port related themes.
"The recommendation from the Director of Operations and the Department Staff is to award the construction services for land fill cell expansion project to CT Northern Contractors Alliance. So as Council and the community is aware, we have been operating on our existing landfill for a number years, this area is now completely, or nearly completely exhausted. We have to develop a new cell and where that cell is going is in our quarry, so we are looking to remove a bunch of rock out of our quarry to make the cell and then have that additionally later on ... prepped for refuse deposit" -- Director of Operations Richard Pucci on the contract award for landfill work
Towards questions Councillor Randhawa asked about the local employment opportunities for the project, with Mr, Pucci noting of the company's local roots.
Councillor Cunningham inquired as to who the other bid was from for the project and if they were local as well.
As the process had worked towards its conclusion, Mr. Pucci noted that city staff had narrowed the list of six, down to two participants, CT Northern Contractors Alliance and Adventure Paving also based in Prince Rupert.
Mr. Pucci noted that the staff was recommending the Contractors Alliance owing to potential savings that could be found from the sale of rock from the work on the quarry at the landfill site.
The contract setback for Adventure Paving marks the second civic contract this year where they came in second, previously losing the City's recent summer paving award to an out of town company from Kitimat.
Councillor Mirau sought out some background on the financial prospects from the rock that is taken from the quarry, while also praising staff for their hard work on the file and how the make City Council's work easy.
Councillor Cunningham also had a question related to the rock removal asking who would be watching over the project.
Towards oversight on the project, Mr. Pucci also noted for Council that a third party manager would be taken on for the project to address any potential resale of rock that comes from the removal of rock from the quarry.
The Mayor also added his praise to how city staff had handled the expansion process and noted how the city is solving its big infrastructure projects one at a time.
You can review the background to the contract award and the discussion related to it from the City's Video Archive page starting at the 11 minute mark.
For further notes on Monday's Council Session see our Council Timeline Feature here.
A look at some past Contract awards by the City can be viewed here, while a wider overview of past Council Discussion themes can be explored from our Council Discussion page.
Cross posted from the North Coast Review.
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