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SERVICE CONTRACT FOR WATER TREATMENT FACILITIES OPERATIONS AND ASSET MANAGEMENT THIS SERVICE CONTRACT FOR WATER TREATMENT FACILITIES OPERATIONS AND ASSET MANAGEMENT ("Service Contract") is made and entered into as of this 20th day of September, 2005 in Hays County, Texas between the City of San Marcos, Texas, a municipal corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Texas (the "City"), and Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority, a conservation and reclamation district and political subdivision of the State of Texas created pursuant to Article XVI, Section 59 of the Texas Constitution by special act of the Legislature, formerly compiled at Article 8280-106, Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes (the "Authority") . RECITALS (A) The City currently owns the City of San Marcos, Texas water treatment system. (B) The City IS responsible for the treatment and distribution of potable water in the City's service area. (C) The City's water treatment system consists of a surface water treatment plant (the "Plant"), water wells, storage reservoirs, pipes, mains, valves, and treatment equipment owned by the City. (D) The Authority has operated and maintained the Plant since the time the Plant first became operational, under a contract between the parties dated May 11, 1999, and the Authority is familiar with the design, layout, operation and condition of the Plant. [E] The City has determined that it is in the City's best interests to contract with a third-party operator on a long-term basis to operate, maintain, repair, replace and manage certain water treatment system assets and to meet the requirements of applicable law. (F) The City issued a request for qualifications and expressions of interests ("RFQEI") to entities interested in providing water treatment system operations and asset management services to the City. (G) The City, based on the technical and fmancial qualifications set forth in the RFQEI, determined Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority and OMI, Inc. to be qualified. (H) The City issued a request for proposals on January 11, 2004 (the "RFP") to the prequalified fIrms to provide water treatment system operations, and set forth in the RFP the criteria for selection of the preferred proposer. Four addenda to the RFP were issued on February 20, 2004, February 23, 2004, February 26, 2004, and March 3, 2004, respectively. The City provided potential proposers with reasonable access to the water treatment system to allow them the opportunity to review documentation and to conduct such inspections and