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File #: 2025-1625   
Type: Agenda Item Status: Passed
File created: 7/8/2025 In control: City Council
On agenda: 8/5/2025 Final action: 8/5/2025
Title: Approve a one-year renewal of the contract with Wear Gloves, Inc. for annual litter control and drain and inlet surface cleaning services in the amount of $433,472
Attachments: 1. FOR COUNCIL- Third Amendment-Litter Control Services Agreement (PWD 220178), 2. Fully Executed - Second_Amendment_to_Agreement_for_Litter_Cont, 3. Fully Executed - Amendment 1 - Agreement for Litter Control Services - Wear Gloves, Inc (PWD 220178), 4. Council Report 6-20-23 - Wear Gloves, Inc (PWD 220178), 5. Council Report 2-15-22 - Wear Gloves, Inc (PWD 220178), 6. Fully Executed - Original Agreement for Litter Control Services (PWD 220178), 7. Council Report 6-7-22 - Wear Gloves, Inc (PWD 220178), 8. Fully Executed - 2019 Agreement - CMO-190357 - Wear Gloves
Submitted By: Tiffany Stewart
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Presentation By: Darren Park
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Department: Public Works

STAFF RECOMMENDATION (Motion Ready):
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Approve a one-year renewal of the contract with Wear Gloves, Inc. for annual litter control and drain and inlet surface cleaning services in the amount of $433,472
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OCALA'S RELEVANT STRATEGIC GOALS:
Operational Excellence, Quality of Place

PROOF OF PUBLICATION:
N/A

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BACKGROUND:
The Public Works Department has ongoing staffing needs for litter control. Wear Gloves, Inc. (Wear Gloves), a community non-profit organization, has provided litter control, landscape maintenance, and miscellaneous other services for the City since September 6, 2019.
In 2022, Public Works sought a procurement exemption which would allow the City to continue to use Wear Gloves for the provision of litter control services without issuing a competitive solicitation on the grounds that Wear Gloves has provided efficient, cost-effective specialty services to the City over the past three years. The City Contracting Officer granted the exemption after considering the limited number of entities providing litter control services and that the City has benefited from the provision of such services. On June 7, 2022, City Council awarded a three-year contract (Contract No. PWD/220178) to Wear Gloves for the provision of litter control, landscape maintenance, and miscellaneous services for a three-year term from August 1, 2022, through July 31, 2025. The contract contained the option for two additional one-year renewal periods.
On February 15, 2022, City Council approved additional expenditures under the contract to cover additional crew members to meet the growing demands for litter control.
On June 20, 2023, City Council approved the First Amendment to PWD/220178, to expand the scope of services to include stormwater drain and inlet surface cleaning services and increase the hourly rate of compensation from $11 to $16 through the end o...

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