Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Director to enter into a contract on behalf of the Office of Construction Management with Dynamix Engineering. Ltd. for professional services for the design and construction of emergency generators for the Division of Fire and Columbus Public Health Department at the following locations: Fire Station No. 2, 150 East Fulton Street; Fire Station No. 4, 3030 Winchester Pike; Fire Station No. 7, 1425 Indianola Avenue; Fire Academy, 3639 Parsons Avenue; and the Health Center, 240 Parsons Avenue.
Request for Statements of Qualifications were available on December 16, 2010, and responses were to be submitted on or before January 13, 2011. The City received six proposals (1 *FBE, 1 ^MBE): *Advanced Engineering Consultants (AEC), Heapy Engineering, Kramer Engineers, ^Dynamix Engineering Ltd., DLZ Ohio and Roger D. Fields & Associates.
Emergency action is requested to allow this project to proceed in a timely manner so that the fire and health facilities receive emergency generators as quickly as possible, thereby reducing the likelihood of long interruptions in electrical service.
Dynamix Engineering Ltd. Contract Compliance No. 31-1536631; expiration date August 31, 2012.
Fiscal Impact: This legislation authorizes the expenditure of $106,972.00 from the Department of Public Safety's Gov'l B.A.B.'s (Build America Bonds) Fund. This legislation also authorizes the expenditure of $46,000.00 from the Construction Management Capital Improvement Fund, Fund 746, Health: 240 Parsons Ave.-Generator Project, Project Number 570030-100018. Funds are available for both these expenditures.
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To authorize the Finance and Management Director to enter into a contract on behalf of the Office of Construction Management with Dynamix Engineering. Ltd. for professional services for the design and construction of emergency generators for the Division of Fire and the Columbus Public Health Department; to authorize the expenditure totaling $152,972.00 from the Department of Public Safety Capital Improvement Fund and the Construction Management Capital Improvement Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($152,972.00)
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WHEREAS, the Finance and Management Department, Office of Construction Management desires to enter into a professional services contract with Dynamix Engineering Ltd. for professional services for the design and construction of emergency generators for the Division of Fire and the Columbus Public Health Department; and
WHEREAS, Dynamix Engineering Ltd. is the most responsive and responsible bidder; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Finance and Management, Office of Construction Management, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Finance and Management Director to enter into a contract with Dynamix Engineering. Ltd. for professional services for the design and construction of emergency generators for the Division of Fire and Columbus Public Health Department, so that the project can proceed in a timely manner, 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 and Management Director is hereby authorized to enter into a contract on behalf of the Office of Construction Management with Dynamix Engineering. Ltd. for professional services for the design and construction of emergency generators for the Division of Fire and the Columbus Public Heath Department.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $152,972.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary in regards to the action authorized in SECTION 1, be and is hereby authorized and approved as follows:
Division: 30-04
Fund: 746
Project: 340103-100000
OCA Code: 710103
Object Level 1: 06
Object Level 3: 6620
Amount: $106,972.00
Division: 45-27
Fund: 746
Project: 570030-100018
OCA Code: 763018
Object Level 1: 06
Object Level 3: 6620
Amount: $46,000.00
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.