As if the Charlie Foxtrot could not get any worse, here come the dueling proposals. Yup, MEMA and the city of Jackson issued separate RFP's for managing the O.B. Curtis water treatment plants. The city of Jackson issued this RFP today:
Request for Proposals (RFP) for Operation, Maintenance and Management of O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, J.H. Fewell Water Treatment Plant, Tanks, and Well Facilities Project Summary: The RFP is to select a proposer that will provide full time operations, and maintenance of the City of Jackson, Mississippi, water treatment facilities and various components of the water system. The award will be for a one (1) year emergency contract and the successful proposer will be eligible for additional procurements made by the City of Jackson for similar services. Due Date: November 7, 2022 Due Time: 1:00 PM CST Location: City Hall, Office of Municipal Clerk, 219 South President Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39201 PURPOSE: The City of Jackson, Mississippi invites the submittal of proposals from qualified firms interesting in providing full service operations and maintenance services for the City of Jackson, Mississippi, Water Treatment Facilities: the O.B. Curtis (OBC) Water Treatment Plant (WTP) located at .....
However, MEMA issued an RFP Friday for a contract to operate the O.B. Curtis water treatment plant for a year.
The Unified Command of the Jackson Water Crisis incident, at the request of our federal partners, has issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for operations and maintenance at the City of Jackson’s water treatment facilities. The Unified Command is seeking a 12-month emergency procurement contract for staffing for operations, maintenance, and management of OB Curtis Water Treatment Facility, JH Fewell Water Treatment Facility, tanks, and well facilities of Jackson.
Current Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) contracts end on October 20, 2022. The Emergency Measures declaration ends on November 29, 2022. The Unified Command is proactively seeking long-term solutions to sustain the state’s work at these facilities.
“MEMA is acting as the coordinating agency for the procurement of this contract. Staffing has been a critical issue at these facilities, and we are ready to move to the next phase of stabilizing Jackson’s water services. Our top priority is life safety,” says MEMA Executive Director Stephen McCraney.
MEMA announced today it was expanding Hemphill's role at the water treatment plants to ensure proper staffing.
You can't make this up.
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Circular firing squad. Complete idiots. Are there any actual adults in the country left?
It's all about the money and who gets it...taxpayers be damned!
So if I'm the lowest bidder bidding on two separate proposals.....???
COJ has now publicly stated with this RFP that they are capable of running their water system without state or federal assistance; that is, now that they have already received the assistance needed to pull it out of a ditch.
Problem is that state .gov will have a preferred contractor as well, and the feds will have someone they want to get the bid. All politicians are the same, some can just hide the corruption better than others.
As a MS taxpayer, I'd say treat the mayor as the petulant child that he is, and get out of the COJ water business.
This is strategic because Chokwe has to appear to be proactively trying to resolve the issue while Bennie T is up in Washington painting the State leadership the evil whites racist descendants of plantation owners who are trying to kill the majority African American citizens of Jackson with bad water and gun shows!
I am sure that businesses qualified to do this are aware of the WM vs Richard's fiasco. By city's issuing an RFP in addition to MEMA issuing an RFP for the same thing guarantees that no one qualified to do this will respond. Not getting caught up in this nonsense. I would imagine had MEMA issued the contract, they would pay for it. If Jackson issues a contract, they would pay for it. How many shades of stupid can Jackson possible have?
Things that the national MSM will NOT do:
Portray Chokwe or the City Council as corrupt
Portray Chokwe or the City Council as ungrateful
Portray Chokwe or the City Council as incompetent
Portray Chokwe or the City Council as responsible for the crisis
Things that the national MSM will do:
Portray all suburban whites in Mississippi as racist
Portray all suburban whites in Mississippi as corrupt
Portray all suburban whites in Mississippi as ungrateful
Portray all suburban whites in Mississippi as incompetent
Portray all suburban whites in Mississippi as responsible for this crisis
I guess KF is terrified of fat, greasy congressman.
This is all by design. Chokwe is operating under orders from DC.
The national media is just waiting to run their hit pieces. They are going to make the MSGOP look like the most corrupt state government in the nation. Expect the full Trump smear treatment real soon for Tate, Lynn Fitch, and more!
The State has an interest, as Reeves said, in not fixing Jackson's water again. Qualified businesses should specify in their proposal that will contract with MEMA or a receiver, not the City.
Chokwe and phd Omari are both total morons
I can’t really think of a better word to describe them. Total fraudsters could be a close second
So you really think our mayor is this dumb or is he just playing stupid for his benefit ?
Congrats to Jackson's forthcoming RFP winner, Richard's Disposal!
Jackson can't run the water/system. The problems:
1) lack of effective leadership
2) poor hiring practices
3) lack of proper skills and work ethic among employees
4) lack of management
5) lack of accountability
6) lack of knowledge and understanding
They just aren't capable. They can't do it. You are asking folks that couldn't run a lemonade stand to run a major city. You are asking folks that can't get out of bed until 8:30 AM to be at work at 8:00 AM. They can't do it. They just can't. The state or federal government has got to end this and take it away from Jackson. Jackson can't handle their business.
It appears we are on our own. Keep stocking up on water. Read the labels and question where the bottled water is sourced. Be sure to vote. Pray.
I love paragraph 2.6.1 in Jackson's RFP. It says that the company is REQUIRED to extend a job offer to each current City of Jackson employee at the plant. The offer must be equal to or greater in pay, and they must keep them employed at least 6 months.
This is the problem. The water availability to 160,000 people is at stake and the city if worried about some incompetent government worker losing their job. It should be about proper service to your customers. If getting water to your customers in a dependable manner requires some folks losing their job, then so be it. This is why Jackson can't succeed at this. They can't keep their eye focused on water service. OB Curtis exists for one reason and that is to provide water. It does not exist to provide jobs.
The mayor and his leadership team are all idiots.
Antar is like a slow kid riding a bicycle down the street who decides that it will be funny to shove a stick into the spokes of his front wheel. Then when he crashes his bike, he will blame the neo-Nazi KKK republicans for causing him injury and destroying his bicycle!
Same song, different verse.
Chowke will recommend an unqualified vendor to the city council. They will reject the potential contract. Chowke will veto their rejection and issue a notice to proceed to his vendor. The city council will reject payment to the vendor until they threaten to walk after 6 months of not being paid. Then they will be paid since it’s a settlement.
Now we see why Chowke didn’t want to expedite the appeal with the MS Supreme Court.
2.7.3 The operator is prohibited from contact with the public or the media without consent from the city.
I am not a procurement specialist by any means, but the city is not looking for a request for proposals, they are seeking a request for qualifications. But then again we are talking Jackson so am RFP gives them more flexibility in tailoring their procurement to a preferred vendor that meets their astronomically high DBE goals.
As I see it, this is a no-win situation for the state, because it is located within the city limit of Jacktown and is dependent on its water supply. If the majority of state office were located elsewhere, then it could let the CoJ just implode on itself. Maybe it's time for the brains underneath the gold dome to start kicking around the idea of moving the state captiol.
What's ironic is that there is no way in hell the city could comply with the conditions of their own RFP. they have proven that to be the case. All they want now is another fall guy.
This is why it’s so important for NE Jackson and Belhaven area residents to turn out for local elections
They only vote on national elections and overwhelmingly vote Republican. They are the source of money for the city and need to turn out. Ashby get the Ne Jackson ole miss crowd out to vote. My gosh what a waste it is not to vote while south and west Jackson have a turnout of 13% of vote. Lumumba won with a 15% voter turnout. Let’s stop being stupid
I predict that the contract will go to Richards Water Plant Consulting!
The city won’t pay. That’s why the state had to step in in the first place- contractors won’t touch Jackson with a 10 foot pole unless they can bill the state or the feds. They were sick of doing work for the city and not getting paid. To get paid in Jackson, it seems the contractor must be sufficiently black AND liberally grease certain palms. Richard’s Disposal obviously figured it out; Waste Management didn’t. Project performance isn’t a major consideration.
And that, my friends, is how all the money disappears while nothing gets fixed. Ask the mayor — he’s an expert. He made the $90 million Siemens settlement disappear practically overnight! He’s a dammed magician!
7:40am
Two weeks ago, WSJ gave an accurate account of the entire timeline of events leading to State take-over and fix of Jackson's water system, largely faulting the incompetence, lack of leadership and management skills and political prejudice of the Mayor.
The only hope is for the legislature to go into an emergency session and change the laws so that the State can take over Jackson and remove Lumumba and the current City Council and replace them with some new form state controlled body. Another options is divide the city up, turn the current city council wards into their own cities, carve out downtown and Belhaven/Fondren, and let the current Councilpersons run for Mayor of their Ward-city. Let the State control the water, trash collection,
and maintain the streets. Then the new “mayors” can just continue talk and do nothing and complain about the white people. But they can’t actually screw anything up with their incompetence.
The people of Ms. should be blamed for this whole circus. What other state in the United States has their capital city in another country? The people of Ms. should not have to pay for all of the services to a city that is not even in the U.S. Our government is already paying off most of the population of Kush with our tax dollars. Any other money that is spent on keeping Kush from turning into a third world city is wasted. It is already a third world city and nothing the state or country can do to keep it from becoming more of a shit hole.
Move our capital out of Kush and put it back into our state.
Did Socrates get an advanced copy?
The entire mayors team is prejudice
For God's sake, let FEMA, not MEMA do the RFP or the EPA!
This political pissing contest has to STOP!
I smell another Chancery Court matter if competing proposals are accepted...
The Mayor certainly deserves all the negative posts he is getting---The only way he could get more negative posts is-----Perhaps if he took money from the poor and built a volley ball court in Hattiesburg yeah that would do it !!
Really to be honest its Jackson. Who cares.
If you win both RFPs can you get paid twice?
If Andy Gipson, in addition to being Ag Commissioner and Marshal Dillon, could act as City Manager, Jackson could recover from becoming Woke with Choke. Gipson plans and executes accordingly, he's a leader.
What a hell hole.
Why anyone would live there or even visit is beyond me.
10:26 The Wall Street Journal didn't go back far enough. 1979 would have been a good enough start.
@8:24 I actually remember that being in the MEMA proposal as well and don't have a problem with this requirement. Especially given how few employees the city hired for the water plants in the first place, I wouldn't think keeping them on for at least 6 months would be a deal breaker to the companies wanting to come in, but who knows.
I would be interested to know what portions, if any, of the COJ proposal did differ from the MEMA proposal or if they just changed the names on the first page... either way, the constant whining from the mayor about the groups that are actually trying to help is truly unbelievable. It's pretty much damned if you do, damned if you don't for the state at this point.
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