AGENDA INFORMATION SHEET
DEPARTMENT: Materials Management
ACM: Bryan Langley
AGENDA DATE: September 20, 2016
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Consider adoption of an ordinance authorizing the City Manager to execute a Professional Services Agreement (PSA) with Solutient GeoSciences, Inc., for hydrogeological and analytical services pertaining to groundwater monitoring and reporting requirements at the City of Denton Landfill; and providing an effective date (File 6231-awarded to Solutient GeoSciences, Inc. in a three (3) year amount not-to-exceed $304,961). The Public Utilities Board recommends approval (7-0).
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The Landfill is required to perform a variety of groundwater sampling events and submit ground water monitoring results of the landfill's groundwater monitoring wells and two leachate sumps on a semi-annual basis to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).
Solutient GeoSciences, Inc. is familiar with Denton's hydrogeological site conditions, and possesses staff capable of monitoring and accurately interpreting Denton's groundwater data, having supervised Denton's landfill groundwater monitoring program since 1999. Denton's groundwater monitoring service requirements previously performed by Solutient GeoSciences, Inc. include well sampling, data review, statistical analyses, consultation, regulatory reporting, and general geological and hydrogeological services performed at the landfill site as required by the Municipal Solid Waste permit. There is no firm located in the City of Denton with a licensed professional hydrogeologist which can perform these professional and technical consulting services.
In accordance with Texas Local Government Code 252.022, the procurement of professional services is exempt from the requirement of competition based selection. Solutient Geosciences, Inc. has extensive history and experience in collecting, interpreting, and reporting Denton's ground water data to the TCEQ, therefore staff recommends...
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