SLED Opportunity · TEXAS · CITY OF DENTON
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The City of Denton seeks experienced contractors for pole inspection services including wood and non-wood poles, with mandatory prevailing wage compliance. Submissions via IONWAVE or hard copy only. The contract emphasizes innovative, cost-effective municipal solutions.
The City highly recommends that respondents do not wait until minutes before the due date and time to submit proposal. The submittal process may take significant time. Submissions accepted via IONWAVE or hard copy ONLY (no emails). Questions must be submitted by the deadline via IONWAVE only (no emails/no phone calls) The City of Denton (the City) is requesting submissions to contract with an individual or business with considerable experience in providing goods or services of this solicitation. The responses and the cost solutions shall be submitted to the City of Denton in a sealed submission. The awarded individual or business shall possess a proven track record of using innovative approaches to providing goods and services that represent the best value to their clients. The awarded individual or business shall have the ability to accomplish all aspects of the requested services. The selected individual or firm should be able to provide innovative methods to deal with municipal challenges, and cost effective solutions. A firm may submit a solicitation response for one or more of the categories of product or services requested in this solicitation. It is the intent of the entity to consider interlocal cooperative agreements and state/federal contracts in determining the best value for the entity. --- Q&A --- Q1: Will Prevailing Wages be a requirement for the 9032 Pole Inspection Services work? A1: Yes. Submitted: 4/29/2026 02:18:35 PM (CT) Q2: Question: Does the City currently know the approximate breakdown of poles between Distribution (34.5kV and lower) and Transmission (69kV and higher)? A2: The vast majority of the wood poles are distribution poles. Most of the transmission poles are steel. We can get an exact count, but short answer is that they closely follow the wood/steel pole split. Submitted: 4/27/2026 02:28:32 PM (CT) Q3: 4. Per the "Bid Invitation" document, page 23 of 24, line item 11, can you clarify these are all Non-Wood poles? Additionally, can you clarify when you specify "lighting" you are referring to the streetlight poles and not globes or actual lights. A3: Yes, line item 11 is for non-wood poles including transmission poles, fiberglass, metal, and concrete lighting poles. Lighting refers to streetlighting poles, not luminaires or fixtures attached to poles. Submitted: 4/24/2026 10:40:27 AM (CT) Q4: 2. Per the "Bid Invitation" document, page 22 of 24, line items 6 & 7 specify ground-line treatment of wood power poles. Are we to treat these partial and full excavates? The billables included on the pricing sheet reflects that we would, but the SOW document does not clarify this. Please clarify. A4: The treatments are only required if the poles meet the requirements for treatment in section 5. In other words some poles might be excavated to determine whether or not decay is present, but if it is not, then no treatment is needed. The billable quantities are simply estimates based on previous work. Submitted: 4/24/2026 10:40:11 AM (CT)
SLED stands for State, Local, and Education. These are solicitations issued by state governments, counties, cities, school districts, utilities, and higher education institutions — as opposed to federal agencies.
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