Explanation
The purpose of this legislation is to authorize the Director of Finance and Management to establish a blanket purchase order for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage to obtain Sodium Hypochlorite in accordance with an established Universal Term Contract that expires March 31, 2014.
Sodium Hypochlorite is an approved chlorine solution used at the Southerly and Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plants to disinfect effluent prior to its discharge to the Scioto River. The Ohio EPA requires that plant effluent be disinfected from May 1 through October 31 of each year. The chemical is being purchased in accordance with the existing Universal Term Contract, FL004866, which expires 3-31-14.
SUPPLIER: Bonded Chemicals (61-1162384); Expires 9-3-12
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.
This legislation is being submitted as an emergency so that there is not an interruption in the delivery of this chemical. Due to the extremely rainy season that we have experienced, the plants are required to use more of this chemical at a faster rate than what would be available for funding from the Universal Term Contract without legislation. Sodium Hypochlorite is used to treat the City's wastewater and a delay in its availability would negatively affect the efficient delivery of valuable public services.
FISCAL IMPACT: $297,000.00 is required and budgeted for this expenditure. The Division of Sewerage and Drainage has established two (2) purchase orders in the amount of $100,000.00. The total of $100,000.00 is the threshold per Columbus City Code for funding Universal Term Contracts without legislation.
$270,720.92 was spent in 2010
$311,529.97 was spent in 2009
$305,091.26 was spent in 2008
Title
To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to establish a Blanket Purchase Order with Bonded Chemicals from a Universal Term Contract for the purchase of Wastewater Treatment Chemicals for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, to authorize the expenditure of $297,000.00 from the Sewerage System Operating Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($297,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office established a Universal Term Contract, FL004866 which expires 3-31-14 with Bonded Chemicals for the purchase of Sodium Hypochlorite for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage; and
WHEREAS, the Ohio EPA requires that effluent material be disinfected by the wastewater treatment plants prior to being discharged into the waterways, and
WHEREAS, Sodium Hypochlorite is an approved chlorine solution used for the disinfection process, and
WHEREAS, the blanket purchase order will be issued in accordance with the terms and specifications of FL004866 on file in the Purchasing Office, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities, in that due to the extremely rainy season that we have experienced, the plants are required to use more of this chemical at a faster rate than what would be available for funding from the Universal Term Contract without legislation. Sodium Hypochlorite is used to treat the City's wastewater and a delay in its availability would negatively affect the efficient delivery of valuable public services; 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 blanket purchase order for the purchase of Sodium Hypochlorite with Bonded Chemicals for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, in accordance with specifications on file in the Purchasing Office.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $297,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Sewerage System Operating Fund, Fund No. 650, as follows, to pay the cost thereof.
Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant
OCA: 605055
Object Level 1: 02
Object Level 3: 2204
Amount: $228,000.00
Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant
OCA: 605022
Object Level 1: 02
Object Level 3: 2204
Amount: $69,000.00
Section 3. That for the reasons 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.