Surrey procures 4 trucks from Chilliwack dealership for $1.6M<\/p>\n
Published 9:30 am Thursday, July 16, 2026<\/p>\n
The City of Surrey has bought four medium-duty trucks from a Chilliwack dealership for $1,609,186.43, raising questions from a councillor why they weren\u2019t procured from a Surrey dealership.<\/p>\n
Scott Neuman, Surrey\u2019s general manager of engineering, told council in a corporate report on July 13 these will replace 16-year-old trucks that have seen better days and have reached the end of their service life.<\/p>\n
Chilliwack Ford Ltd. won the bid, beating Surrey\u2019s Mainland Ford Ltd.\u2019s $1,616,518.40.<\/p>\n
\u201cChilliwack Ford Ltd. provided the low conforming bid, which provides best value to the City,\u201d Neuman told council. \u201cThe City has previously purchased vehicles from this supplier and has been satisfied with the quality and performance of their products.\u201d<\/p>\n
Councillor Doug Elford asked why the Surrey dealership didn\u2019t win the contract. \u201cI guess my concern is we\u2019re giving the contract to a Chilliwack company,\u201d he said. \u201cThe difference isn\u2019t a heck of a lot, really.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy aren\u2019t we procuring through our Surrey based businesses?\u201d<\/p>\n
Surrey\u2019s finance manager Kam Grewal replied that city is \u201cbound by certain pieces of legislation\u201d that prohibit such favouritism. \u201cAnd in this case I believe the dealership in question might have more than one location and it could include Surrey, but we cannot necessarily weigh that into the solicitation and evaluation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey procures 4 trucks from Chilliwack dealership for $1.6M Published 9:30 am Thursday, July 16, 2026 The City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-811645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}