Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This legislation authorizes the Director of Finance and Management to increase a purchase order for the Office of Construction Management (authorized by Ordinance No. 0848-2007, passed June 11, 2007, in the amount of $85,000.00) with Echo 24, Inc. for renovation of the interior offices at the Jerry Hammond Center, 1111 East Broad Street. The original purchase order was established without considering the costs necessary to cover prevailing wage work on this project. The increase in this ordinance will allow the Office to conduct all of the work envisioned in the original ordinance, specifically the installation of a structured cabling system. This work includes providing coax runs to thirty locations and the installation of specific cabling equipment.
Emergency action is requested to allow construction to continue at the 1111 East Broad Street location, thereby avoiding a delay in the moving of City employees into this building.
Echo 24, Inc. Contract Compliance Number 31-1753698, expiration date 10/19/2008.
Fiscal Impact: The amount requested under this ordinance is $13,657.32, which would make for a total purchase order amount of $98,657.32. Funding is available in the Information Services Fund.
Title
To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to increase an existing purchase order with Echo 24, Inc. as part of the 1111 East Broad Street renovation; to authorize the expenditure of $13,657.32 from the Information Services Voted Bond Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($13,657.32)
Body
WHEREAS, employees of the Recreation and Parks Department, Technology Department, the 3-1-1 Call Center, and the Community Relations Commission are moving to the Jerry Hammond Center, 1111 East Broad Street, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to renovate the interior offices of 1111 East Broad Street to include the installation of a structured cabling system to prepare for this move, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Finance and Management Department, Office of Construction Management, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Finance and Management Director to increase an existing purchase order with Echo 24, Inc. so there is no delay in the moving of City employees into this building; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Finance and Management Director is authorized to increase an existing purchase order with Echo 24, Inc. for wiring in the amount of $13,657.32 in accordance with universal term contract FL002553, which expires 12/31/2008.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $13,657.32 or so much thereof that may be necessary in regard to the action authorized in SECTION 1, be and is hereby authorized and approved as follows:
Division: 47-02
Fund: 514
Project: 470037
Subfund: 002
OCA Code: 470037
Object Level 1: 06
Object Level 3: 6649
Amount: $13,657.32
SECTION 3. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That for 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 or vetoes the same.