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City of Sunny Isles Beach <br />18070 Collins Avenue <br />Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 33160 <br />(305) 947-0606 City Hall <br />(305) 949-3113 Fax <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Honorable Mayor and City Commissioners <br />VIA: Stan Morris, City Manager <br />FROM: Rick Labinsky, P.E., City Engineer <br />DATE: October 22, 2024 <br />RE: Request to Approve an Agreement with Equalis Group/Advanced Green <br />Technologies for the Design and Construction of solar panels at the <br />Government Center <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />Staff recommends approval of this Resolution. <br />REASONS: <br />The City of Sunny Isles Beach desires to install solar panels over portions of the ground floor parking and <br />on levels 3 and 4 of the parking garage to provide for solar power for the Government Center operations <br />while also providing covered parking spaces. <br />The proposed cost from Equalis Group/Advanced Green Technologies is $1,044,276.02. <br />Pursuant to § 62-13 of the city's Purchasing Code, Purchases made through intergovernmental <br />cooperative purchasing arrangements or purchasing consortiums organized as a corporation not for <br />profit whose members are governmental entities, provided that such cooperative purchasing <br />arrangements or consortiums provide for a competitive process to select a vendor. <br />The Cooperative agency known as Equalis, issued RFP #COG -2143 for Alternative and Renewable <br />Energy Solutions on February 10, 2023 and subsequently entered into Contract #COG -2143A with <br />Advanced Green Technologies (AGT). <br />Equalis Group is a Public Sector purchasing cooperative. Equalis delivers compliant, publicly procured <br />cooperative agreements that Public Sector entities can utilize to: i) quickly acquire the products and <br />Item Number: 9.1 <br />186 <br />