Title
To authorize and direct the Finance Director to issue a purchase order for medical supplies from an existing Universal Term Contract established for such purpose by the Purchasing Office with Bound Tree Medical LLC, to authorize the expenditure of $200,000.00 from the General Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($200,000.00)
Explanation
BACKGROUND:
Need: The Fire Division needs to purchase medical supplies. This legislation is to authorize and direct the Finance Director to issue a purchase order for medical supplies from an existing Universal Term Contract established by the Purchasing Office for such purpose with Bound Tree Medical LLC.
Bid Information: A Universal Term Contract exists for these purchases.
Contract Compliance: 311739487
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested as funds are needed immediately to keep medical supplies stocked at adequate levels.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Budgeted Amount: Funds exist within the Division's current 2004 General Fund Operating Budget specifically for this purchase.
Body
WHEREAS, the Fire Division needs to purchase medical supplies; and
WHEREAS, a Universal Term Contract established by the Purchasing Office exists for these purchases; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to purchase said medical supplies, to ensure that adequate supplies are on hand, now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
Section 1. That the Finance Director be and is hereby authorized and directed to issue a purchase order for the purchase of medical supplies in accordance with the existing Universal Term Contract established by the Purchasing Office with Bound Tree Medical LLC for such purpose.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $200,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from the Fire Division's General Fund Budget, Fund 010, Division of Fire No. 30-04, Object Level One 02, Object Level Three 2207, OCA 301531.
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.