Explanation
This legislation authorizes the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Sewerage and Drainage, to upgrade the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) control system at the Fairwood Avenue Facility. The HVAC control system's purpose is to maintain good air quality through adequate ventilation with filtration and to provide thermal comfort. The existing HVAC control system has become obsolete requiring an upgrade of the current Invensys System with new architecture, software upgrades, and new control equipment. The manufacturer, Schneider Electric has stated that Innovative Energy Solutions (IES) is the only manufacturer authorized representative in Columbus that can perform this service. This ordinance is being submitted in accordance with the Sole Source provisions of Columbus City Code, 1959 Section 329.07(e).
Emergency Action is necessary so that the contract can be completed as soon as possible. Without this emergency designation, it is estimated that funding could not be established until mid December 2012. A recent failure of a VAV controller has made it imperative that repairs be completed as soon as possible.
SUPPLIER: Innovative Energy Solutions (74-3066330), expires March 2, 2013
Does not hold MBE/FBE status.
The company is 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: The Division of Sewerage and Drainage has allocated $151,700.00 for this HVAC control system upgrade in the 2012 budget.
$0.00 was spent in 2011
$0.00 was spent in 2010
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to enter into an agreement with Innovative Energy Solutions for HVAC control systems upgrade services in accordance with sole source provisions of the Columbus City Code for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, and to authorize the expenditure of $151,700.00 from the Sewerage System Operating Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($151,700.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Sewer Maintenance Operations has a need to upgrade the existing HVAC control system due to obsoleteness, and
WHEREAS, the equipment upgrade provides for new architecture, software upgrades, and new control equipment, and
WHEREAS, the manufacturer, Schneider Electric has stated that Innovative Energy Solutions (IES) is the only manufacturer authorized representative in Columbus that can perform this service, and
WHEREAS, this ordinance is being submitted in accordance with the Sole Source provisions of Columbus City Code 1959, Section 329.07(e), and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the city, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director of Public Utilities to establish a contract in accordance with the terms, conditions and specifications on file for the immediate preservation of 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 Director of Public Utilities be and is hereby authorized to into a service agreement with Innovative Energy Solutions for HVAC control systems upgrade services in accordance with Sole Source provisions of the Columbus City Code for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $151,700.00 or so much thereof as may be needed, be and the same hereby is authorized from the Sewerage System Operating Fund, Fund No. 650 as follows:
OCA: 606202
Object Level 1: 03
Object Level 3: 3375
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.