X Most responsive and responsible Bidder Highest ranked Proposer Other 3. This chemical is used to purify the swimming pool water from contaminants. Two years ago, the City utilized Broward Governmental Cooperative Purchasing Group's bid for this chemical. Staff found that the manufacturing process called the batch system used by Allied Universal caused cost overruns for the chemicals and the equipment due to inconsistent lots and impurity levels beyond acceptable norms.
Chlorine is manufactured in two ways.
One is the batch system, the other is a continuous computerized system of production. Unlike the batch system that relies on human measurement, which is prone to error, the computerized system is set once and will produce the same product without deviation. Commercial Energy Specialists produces it's chlorine in this way. Another plus for this company is that they installed the filtering system in the City's pools. Prior to Broward Governmental Cooperative Group bid, the pools were supplied with chlorine and maintained by Commercial Energy Specialists, who have proven that their product is of high quality.