In one fell swoop, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved contracts worth $90 million to cover work and supplies to be provide over the next four-and-a-half years to the county’s public works division.
In approving the disbursement of the funds, the board, acting as both the the governing body of San Bernardino County and as the governing body of the San Bernardino County Flood Control District, approved contracts of $10 million each with with Yucaipa-based Alexander Lawrence Bohanek doing business as A.B. Landscape, San Bernardino-based Bridgewater Equipment, Inc., Chino-based California Arbor Care, Inc. Rancho Cucamonga-based Connected Enterprises Group, Inc. doing business as Galloway Boys Trucking, Victorville-based CornerStoneCC doing business as Cornerstone Construction Company, Adelanto-based MWC Group, Inc., City of Industry-based Quinn Rental Services, Seven Hills, Ohio-based SCA of CA, LLC and Lancaster-based Spadaro Enterprises, Inc.
The nine vendors were contracted to provide “on-call public works maintenance services.”
Work being contracted for includes chip seal material testing, concrete con concrete repair work, debris control, erosion and sediment control, electrical services, fence intasllation and repair. Guardrail installation and repair, hazardous waste removal, pavement maintenance and repair, snow removal and snow plowing, street sweeping, traffic control and flagging, traffic striping and weed abatement.
The equipment the companies were required to have included air compressors, arrow boards, backhoes, concrete pumps, crack seal melters, cranes, bulldozers, excavators, flail mowers, generators, hand tampers, hydraulic hammers, hydro axes, hydrovactors, Jackhammers, light towers, loaders, message boards, motor graders, mowers, boom mowers, both push and pull scrapers, sheep foot tows, skid steers, trash pumps, trench equipment, power screeners, asphalt emulsion distributor trucks, berm builders, cold planners, paving machines with both tracks and wheels, asphalt spreaders, vibratory steel drum rollers, pneumatic rollers, snow blowers, wheel loaders, bucket wheel loaders, hydraulic angel blade wheel loaders, street sweepers, bottom trucks, dump trucks, off-road dump trucks, low bed and tractors, truck & transfer trailers and water trucks.
Each of the contracts is to run from July 1, 2026 through December 31, 2030.
According to Sameh Basta, a purchasing agent with the San Bernardino County Flood Control District, in accordance with the county’s intent to to establish a list of pre-qualified contractors to provide on-call public works maintenance services, the county and the department jointly issued a request for qualifications to perform the work specified. The nine companies submitted proposals in response to the request, Basta told the board of supervisors, and flood control district personnel assigned to the matter determined the nine were “qualified to provide on-call public works maintenance services.”
In responding to the request for qualifications and in signing the contracts, all nine vendors further agreed to pay prevailing wages/union scale wages to their employees while those employees were engaged in work done for the county and the county flood control district.
According to the contract, “Contractor shall not offer (either directly or through an intermediary) any improper consideration such as, but not limited to cash, discounts, service, the provision of travel or entertainment, or any items of value to any officer, employee or agent of the district in an attempt to secure favorable treatment regarding this contract. The district, by written notice, may immediately terminate this contract if it determines that any improper consideration as described was offered to any officer, employee or agent of the district with respect to the proposal and award process. This prohibition shall apply to any amendment, extension or evaluation process once a contract has been awarded.”
-Mark Gutglueck