The Shreveport City Purchasing Committee voted to forward recommendations for three Requests for Services to Mayor [not specified], after reviewing scoring and ranking from staff.

Committee members recommended firms for RFS 25-7-13 (interstate lighting improvements), RFS 25-7-14 (professional engineering services for roadway design) and RFS 25-7-15 (professional engineering services for drainage design), and moved that those recommendations be submitted to the mayor for final consideration.

The committee’s recommended firms, as read into the record by committee staff, were: for RFS 25-7-13 (interstate lighting improvements), Fenner, Jolley and McClellan; for RFS 25-7-14 (roadway design), Half Associates, I. Finner, Jolley and McClellan, and Aegis Incorporated; and for RFS 25-7-15 (drainage design), Volkert (ranked first), Ashley and Ashley, and Moore and Associates. During the discussion the committee cited the scoring results for RFS 25-7-14: Half Associates 642 points, AFJ Mac 627 and EJESS 603, as reported by staff.

Mr. Babineau moved to accept the committee’s recommendations and forward them to the mayor; Mr. Henderson seconded the motion. The committee chair put the question and, after a voice vote, declared, “Ayes have it. We vote to give those recommendations to the mayor.”

Committee members directed staff to contact the Purchasing Department to arrange scheduling for the next committee meeting; members discussed holding the meeting either next month or in December depending on the number of RFSs pending. Staff said there were three RFSs currently under consideration and that a proposed date would be circulated (the committee noted its regular meeting falls the first Friday of the month).

No ordinance, statute, or other legal authority was cited during the portion of the meeting recorded in the transcript. The action taken at this meeting was to forward the committee’s recommendations to the mayor for final selection or further action.