Explanation
The purpose of this ordinance is to authorize the Director of Finance and Management to enter into a purchase order with Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. for the purchase of Replacement Pumps & Motors for the Blacklick Booster Station for the Division of Power and Water, Control Center. The lowest, responsive, responsible bidder is Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. at $60,225.54. They do not have MBE/FBE status.
The Purchasing Office opened formal bids on July 24, 2008. Ten (10) bids were received. A tabulation of that bid is available on the attached recommendation letter.
SUPPLIER: Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc., CC# 34-0117420, expiration date: March 08, 2009
Fiscal Impact: This project was not budgeted in the division's operating budget for 2008; however, expenditures will be reprioritized to accommodate this expenditure without increasing the existing budget.
No similar expenditures in 2006 or 2007.
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To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to establish a purchase order with Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. for the purchase of Replacement Pumps & Motors for the Blacklick Booster Station for the Division of Power and Water, and to authorize the expenditure of $60,225.54 from the Water System Operating Fund. ($60,225.54)
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WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office opened formal bids on July 24, 2008 for the purchase of Replacement Pumps & Motors for the Blacklick Booster Station for the Division of Power and Water, Control Center, and
WHEREAS, the Division of Power and Water recommends an award to be made to the lowest, responsive, and responsible bidder Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. and,
WHEREAS, it has become necessary to issue a purchase order in accordance with the terms, conditions, and specifications of Solicitation Number: SA002973 on file in the Purchasing Office, 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 Director of Finance and Management be and is hereby authorized to establish a purchase order with Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. for the purchase of Replacement Pumps & Motors for the Blacklick Booster Station for the Division of Power and Water, in accordance with specifications on file in the Purchasing Office.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $60,225.54 or so much thereof as may be needed, be and the same hereby is authorized from the Water System Operating Fund, Fund No. 600, OCA 602649, Object Level 1: 06, Object Level 03: 6651.
Section 3. That this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.