Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Public Service Director to enter into contract for the Facilities Management Division with VEC Systems., in the amount of $131,000.00 for the renovation of the roof at Fire Station 20, 2646 East Fifth Avenue. The current roof is approximately twenty-five years old and has been leaking. The renovation will consist of the replacement of the current roof with a granular-textured roof of modified bitumen asphalt. The contractor has sixty days upon notification of the award of the contract to complete the project. The roof will include a two-year workmanship guarantee from the contractor and a thirty-year workmanship and material guarantee from the manufacturer.
Formal proposals were solicited on May 4, 2005. Four firms submitted proposals on May 24, 2005 as follows: (0 MBE, 0 FBE).
VEC Systems $131,000.00
K& W Roofing, Inc. $158,000.00
Field & Associates, Inc. $184,700.00
General Maintenance & Engineering Co. $185,423.00
It is the recommendation of the Facilities Management Division to award this contract to the most responsive and responsible bidder, VEC Systems.
Emergency Action is requested so that the contractor will be able to complete this project during good weather.
Fiscal Impact: The Fire Division budgeted $200,000.00 in the Capital Improvement Budget for this project. The cost of this contract is $131,000.00. VEC Systems Contract Compliance Number 04-3702089, expiration 09/27/2007.
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To authorize the Public Service Director to enter into contract for the Facilities Management Division with VEC Systems, for the renovation of the roof at Fire Station 20, to authorize the expenditure of $131,000.00 from the Safety Voted Bond Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($131,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the roof at Fire Station 20 is in disrepair and in need of replacement, and
WHEREAS, the Facilities Management Division recommends acceptance of the bid submitted by VEC Systems as the most responsive and responsible bid, and
WHEREAS; an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Facilities Management Division in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Public Service Director to enter into contract with VEC Systems for a roof renovation at Fire Station 20, 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 Public Service Director is hereby authorized to contract with VEC Systems for the renovation of the roof at Fire Station 20.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $131,000.00, or so much thereof that may be necessary in regard to the action authorized in SECTION 1, be and is hereby authorized and approved as follows:
Division: 30-04
Fund: 701
Project: 340103
OCA Code: 644559
Object Level 1: 06
Object Level 3: 6620
Amount: $131,000.00
SECTION 3. That for 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.