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BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Director to establish a Universal Term Contract (UTC) for the option to purchase HIV Testing Supplies with Abbott Laboratories, Inc. The Columbus Public Health Department is the sole user for the Architect HIV Ag/Ab combo assay testing equipment and supplies used to allow for rapid HIV screening. The term of the proposed option contract will be approximately three (3) years, expiring January 31, 2021, with the option to renew for one (1) additional year.
The Purchasing Office negotiated the universal term contract in accordance with RFQ007701 and the relevant provisions of City Code Chapter 329 relating to sole source procurement. These products are not available to the Columbus Public Health Department from any other source.
The Purchasing Office is recommending award of one contract to Abbott Laboratories, Inc.:
Abbott Laboratories, Inc., CC# 364184946; expires 10/18/2019, All Items 1-27, $1.00
Total Estimated Annual Expenditure: $95,000.00, Columbus Public Health Department, the sole user
Emergency Designation: The Finance and Management Department respectfully requests this legislation to be considered an emergency ordinance to ensure an immediate transition to 4th generation HIV testing so that supplies in the clinics may be immediately available.
The company is not debarred according to the Excluded Party Listing System of the Federal Government or prohibited from being awarded a contract according to the Auditor of State Unresolved Findings for Recovery Certified Search.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding to establish this option contract is from the General Fund. The Columbus Public Health Department will be required to obtain approval to expend from their own appropriations for their estimated annual expenditures.
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To authorize the Finance and Management Director to enter into a contract for the option to purchase HIV Testing Supplies with Abbott Laboratories, Inc. in accordance with relevant provisions of City Code Chapter 329 relating to sole source procurement; to authorize the expenditure of $1.00 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($1.00).
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WHEREAS, the Abbott HIV Testing Supplies UTC will provide for the purchase of testing equipment and supplies used to allow for rapid HIV screening; and
WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office negotiated pricing, terms and conditions in accordance with the relevant provisions of City Code Chapter 329 relating to sole source procurement; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Columbus Public Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Finance and Management Director to enter into a Universal Term Contract for the option to purchase Abbott HIV Testing Supplies, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Finance and Management Director is hereby authorized to enter into the following contract for the option to purchase Abbott HIV Testing Supplies in accordance with the agreement negotiated in accordance with the relevant provisions of City Code Chapter 329 relating to sole source procurement for a term of approximately three (3) years, expiring January 31, 2021, with the option to renew for one (1) additional year, as follows:
Abbott Laboratories, Inc., All Items 1-27, $1.00
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $1.00 is hereby authorized from General Budget Reservation BRPO000841.
SECTION 3. That for the reason stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.