Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation is to authorize the Finance and Management Director to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the following Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements listed below for the Division of Power. The purchases will be used on the Division of Power's electrical distribution system to serve new and existing customers as well as replenish stock for maintenance of existing infrastructure.
UNIVERSAL TERM CONTRACT PURCHASE AGREEMENTS:
Line #10
Switch Gears
Transformers
Wire & Cable
Digital Relays & Accessories
Line #20
Pole Line Hardware
ReClosers
Underground Cable & Accessories
Line #30
Rental of Construction Equipment with Operator
Waste ID & Cleanup
The companies are 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: $3,550,000.00 is budgeted and needed for this purchase. This ordinance is contingent on the passage of the 2022 Operating Budget, Ordinance 2742-2021.
$1,721,920.08 was spent in 2020
$820,088.99 was spent in 2019
Title
To authorize the Finance and Management Director to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements for the purchase of materials, supplies and services for the Division of Power; and to authorize the expenditure of $3,550,000.00 from the Power Operating Fund. ($3,550,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office has established Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements for the purchase of materials, supplies and services; and
WHEREAS, the purchases will be used on the Division of Power's electrical distribution system to serve new and existing customers as well as replenish stock for maintenance of existing infrastructure per the federal and state standards; and
WHEREAS, the expenditure of $3,550,000.00 or so much thereof as is needed for the purchase of materials, supplies and services from and within the Division of Power Operating Fund; and
WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities to authorize the Finance and Management Director to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements for the purchase of materials, supplies and services; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Finance and Management Director be and is hereby authorized to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements for the purchase of materials, supplies and services.
SECTION 2. That the total expenditure of $3,550,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed, be and is hereby authorized in Fund 6300 (Power Operating) $850,000.00 in object class 02 Materials and Supplies, $250,000.00 in object class 03 Services and of $2,450,000.00 in object class 06 Capital Outlay per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 4. That this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.