Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Department of Public Safety, Division of Police needs helicopter maintenance and a service agreement for the City owned police helicopters. The agreement will be used to repair and maintain the fleet of Police helicopters. The agreement shall meet the criteria and standards related to aviation maintenance, as set forth in the Airborne Law Enforcement Accreditation Certification process.
Bid Information: Formal Bid # SA004398 was opened on May 14, 2012. Only one response was received and that bid was from Helicopter Minit-Men, Inc.
This bidder is a majority business entity.
The Division of Police recommends awarding the bid to the lowest, most responsive and only bid, received which is Helicopter Minit-Men, Inc.
This company is not debarred according to the Federal excluded parties listing or prohibited from being awarded a contract according to the Auditor of State unresolved findings for recovery.
Contract Compliance No: 31-0648665, expires October 21, 2013.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is requested so that helicopter maintenance can continue uninterrupted.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $562,010.00 from the General Fund for a helicopter maintenance contract. The Division of Police budgeted $562,010.00 in the 2012 General Fund operating budget for this purpose. In 2011, the Division spent or encumbered $799,766.00. The Division of Police expended $562,010.00 for helicopter maintenance in 2010.
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To authorize and direct the Director of Public Safety to enter into a contract for helicopter maintenance with Helicopter Minit-Men, Inc. for the Division of Police, to authorize the expenditure of $562,010.00 from the General Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($562,010.00)
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WHEREAS, the Director of Public Safety, Division of Police, has a need to enter into a contract for helicopter maintenance with Helicopter Minit-Men, Inc.; and
WHEREAS, Helicopter Minit-Men, Inc. was the only bidder on bid # SA004398; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Safety, Division of Police, in that it is immediately necessary to enter into a contract for helicopter maintenance so that repairs may continue thereby preserving the public peace, property, health, safety and welfare; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Public Safety, be and is hereby authorized and directed to enter into a contract with Helicopter Minit-Men, Inc. for helicopter maintenance for police helicopters for the Division of Police.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $562,010.00, or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby authorized as follows:
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SECTION 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared 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.