Item - 2022.IE31.2

The Infrastructure and Environment Committee:

1. In accordance with Section 71-11A of the City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 71 (Financial Control), authorized an amendment to the existing Contract Number 47022825 issued to SNF Canada Limited, for the supply and delivery of Water Soluble Polyelectrolyte (Polymer) for Biosolids Dewatering for the City of Toronto’s Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant and increased the overall target value including option years by $5,864,265 net of all taxes and charges ($5,937,476 net of Harmonized Sales Tax Recoveries).

2. In accordance with Section 71-11A of the City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 71 (Financial Control), authorized an amendment to the existing Contract Number 47022823 issued to Quadra Chemicals Limited, for the supply and delivery of Water Soluble Polyelectrolyte (Polymer) for Waste Activated Sludge Thickening for the City of Toronto’s Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant and increased the overall target value for all option years by $929,430 net of all taxes and charges ($945,788 net of Harmonized Sales Tax Recoveries).

The purpose of this report is to request authority to amend Blanket Contracts 47022825 and 47022823 awarded under Request for Quotation Number 9117-19-7130 to SNF Canada Limited, and Quadra Chemicals Limited, for the supply and delivery of Water Soluble Polyelectrolyte (polymer) for biosolids dewatering and waste activated sludge thickening for the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant. These amendments are requested in response to escalating unit costs resulting from increased raw material costs, global supply chain challenges and the resulting increase in the Statistics Canada indices used to calculate price adjustments for option years.  The amendments also cover the costs associated with increased chemical volumes used over the past two years in processes that improve wastewater treatment outputs.  

The amendments requested include an increase to the current contract target value and two (2) option year periods for Blanket Contract Number 47022825 issued to SNF Canada Limited, in the amount of $5,864,265 net of all taxes and charges ($5,967,476 net of Harmonized Sales Tax Recoveries), and two (2) option year periods of Blanket Contract Number 47022823 issued to Quadra Chemicals Limited, in the amount of $929,430 net of all taxes and charges ($945,788 net of Harmonized Sales Tax Recoveries).