DATE: February 5, 2025
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
FROM: Development Services Department
TITLE: PURCHASE ORDER TO MERIDIAN RAPID DEFENSE GROUP FOR EVENT PROTECTION BARRIERS AND APPROVAL OF A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH MERIDIAN RAPID DEFENSE GROUP FOR WEEKLY DEPLOYMENT SERVICES
RECOMMENDATION
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Staff recommends that the City Council approve a purchase order, in an amount not to exceed $237,031, for event protection barriers to be used for various City events and approve a Professional Services Agreement (PSA) with Meridian Rapid Defense Group LLC ("Meridian") to deploy the event protection barriers in the amount of $117,000; authorize the Financial Services Director, or designee, to execute the purchase order; authorize the City Manager to execute the agreement upon receipt of all final documents; authorize the City Manager to purchase additional protection barriers and amend the PSA as needed by an additional $708,062 within six months of initial City Council approval, for a total amount not to exceed $1,062,093; and appropriate $575,709 from General Fund Assigned Infrastructure Reserves as needed for the additional purchase.
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BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS
In recent years, the need to ensure the safety of visitors to large-scale outdoor events has become increasingly important. Main Street Oceanside, Inc. ("MSO") hosts both the Morning Farmer's Market and Sunset Market which attract numerous year-round visitors to the downtown area. To enhance visitor safety during these events, vehicles are often parked at major intersections as a means to restrict access; however, new technologies and equipment have come online such as removable barriers and bollards which offer enhanced levels of protection to the community.
During FY 2019-20, the City Council approved a Capital Improvement Program (CIP) project, entitled the Street Market Bollards project; it was subsequently funded with the approval of the FY 2020-21 CIP Budget. T...
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