PUBLIC NOTICE

Approval of a Special Procurement

First date of publication: January 17, 2018

A request for approval of a Special Procurement was presented to and approved by the

City Council, acting as the Local Contract Review Board, on January 16, 2018.

The City of Ashland will directly award a contract for professional services to remove and

replace sand filter media in all six dual media filters and minor repairs to filter #4 as

defined in the “Invitation to Bid – Trade Services, Intermediate Procurement” dated

October 12, 2017, and maintain a completion date of April 30, 2018. The work will be

performed within the currently adopted City of Ashland FY18/19 Biennium Budget.

It has been determined based on written findings that the Special Procurement will be

unlikely to encourage favoritism in the awarding of public contracts or to substantially

diminish competition for public contracts, and result in substantial cost savings or

substantially promote the public interest in a manner that could not be realized by

complying with the requirements that are applicable in ORS 279B.055, 279B.060,

279B.065, or 279B.070.

An affected person may protest the request for approval of a Special Procurement in

accordance with ORS 279B.400 and OAR 137-047-0300. A written protest shall be

delivered to the following address: City of Ashland, Public Works Department, Paula

Brown, P.E., 20 E. Main St. Ashland, OR. The seven (7) day protest period will expire at

5:00pm on January 24, 2018.

This public notice is being published on the City’s Internet World Wide Web site at least

seven days prior to the award of a public contract resulting from this request for approval

of a Special Procurement.