Title
To authorize and direct the Finance Director to issue purchase orders to Laerdal Medical Corporation in the amount of $31,337.00, Resource One in the amount of $2,802.04, and Software House International in the amount of $590.00, for the purchase of a patient simulator and related computer equipment for the Division of Fire's EMS Training Bureau; to expend $34,540.00 from the General Government Grant Fund; to expend $189.04 from the General Fund, and to declare an emergency.($34,729.04)
Explanation
BACKGROUND:
Need: There is an immediate need to authorize and direct the Finance Director to purchase a patient simulator from Laerdal Medical Corporation for the Division of Fire's EMS Training Bureau.
The Division of Fire has accepted a grant from the Department of Homeland Security for this purchase as detailed in Ordinance 0545-2005, passed 3/28/05.
Bid Information: Competitive bids were solicited by the Purchasing Division for the patient simulator as Solicitation SA001733, with Lateral Medical Corporation submitting the lowest, best, responsible, responsive, bid. The lowest bid submitted by Bound Tree Medical was for an alternate product that did not meet numerous specifications of the solicitation.
Related computer equipment is being purchased from a City of Columbus UTC and a State Term Contract, respectively.
Contract Compliance: Laerdal Medical Corporation 132587752
Resource One 311419297
Software House International 223009648
Emergency Designation: This legislation is to be considered an emergency measure since it is imperative that grant funds be encumbered in a timely fashion in adherence to the grant provisions.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Budgeted Amount: Funds exist within the Fire Division's 2005 General Government Grant Fund, Assistance to Firefighters Grant, and General Fund Budget for this expenditure.
Body
WHEREAS, the Division of Fire has accepted a grant from the Department of Homeland Security for Firefighter Assistance; and
WHEREAS, the Division of Fire's EMS Training Bureau is in need to purchase a unique patient simulator from Laerdal Medical Corporation; and
WHEREAS, Laerdal Medical Corporation submitted the lowest, best, responsive, responsible bid for Purchasing Solicitation SA001733; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Fire, Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to purchase said patient simulator for the Fire Division's EMS Training Bureau, 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 Finance Director be and he is hereby authorized and directed to issue purchase orders for the purchase a patient simulator and related computer equipment for the Fire Division's EMS Training Bureau from Laerdal Medical Corporation in the amount of $31,337.00, Resource One in the amount of $2,802.04, and Software House International in the amount of $590.00.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $34,540.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized from the funds available within the Division of Fire #30-04 General Government Grant Fund 220, OCA Code 344016, Grant #344016, Object Level 3 Code 6646; and the expenditure of $189.04, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized from the funds available within the Division of Fire #30-04 General Fund 010, OCA Code 301549, Object Level 3 Code 6646.
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 or vetoes the same.