18-24 Resolution Authorizing Award of Contract for Tree Plainting to Frank Galbraith Son Excavation and Demolition LLC - 2025.pdf

18-25 January 6, 2025 RESOLUTION WHEREAS, in October 2024, the Township of West Orange (the “Township”) issued a set of bid specifications (the “Specifications”) for a proposed contract for the purchase and planting of 248 trees and purchase and installation of 57 root barriers; and WHEREAS, the Specifications provided a list of tree species to be purchased and planted pursuant to the proposed contract, including twenty-three (23) species of trees from which the Township could select; and WHEREAS, the Specifications required bidders to submit bids based upon prices which reflected the size of the trees to be purchased by the Township and did not correspond to the specific tree species to be purchased; and WHEREAS, the Specifications reserved the right for the Township to determine the quantity from each category of tree size or tree species; and WHEREAS, on November 7, 2024 the Township received bids in response to the Specifications, including the lowest bid submitted in the amount of $142,130.00 from: Frank Galbraith & Son Excavation and Demolition, LLC 831 Raritan Rd Scotch Plains, NJ 07076 (“Galbraith”); and WHEREAS, the Township Council objected to the list of trees species set forth in the Specifications based on the inclusion of non-native trees and required only non-native trees be purchased and planted; and