Opening Items

Call meeting to order.

The current maintenance and HVAC contract with Empire is due to expire in July of 2019.  In advance of this deadline, the Operations Department published an RFP (website and Times-Picayune) and engaged in a competitive bidding process to identify the lowest bid for services.  At the conclusion of the process, only one vendor submitted a completed proposal, Empire.  As a result of this process, the administration would like to recommend that the FAME Board approve a contract in the $ with Empire for Maintenance and HVAC services.  The contract, once executed, would be renewed annually up to 3 years.

In November of 2018, the FAME Board voted to approve a contract with Mathes-Brierre for architecture and construction project management for the next phase of renovation at the Gentilly Terrace school site to occur during the summer of 2019.  As a part of that agreement, Mathes-Brierre created construction documents based on conversations with school administration.  Once approved, the construction documents were put out to bid utilizing the public bid process and managed by Mathes-Brierre.  Of the vendors who submitted complete bid proposals, Industrial and Mechanical Contractors, Inc. submitted the lowest bid in the amount of $ 179,100.  The administration recommends that the FAME Board accept this bid for  $ 179,100 and approve Industrial and Mechanical Contractors, Inc. to proceed with the agreed upon projects at the Gentilly Terrace school site.