Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Director to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the following Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements listed below for the purchase of laboratory supplies and equipment for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Surveillance Laboratory. The supplies and equipment will be used to monitor the quality of the treatment process as required by federal and state standards.
UNIVERSAL TERM CONTRACT PURCHASE AGREEMENTS:
YSI Parts & Services
Hach Equipment Parts, Supplies & Accessories
Lab Supplies
Lab & Specialty Gases
S::CAN Parts
Sievers Parts & Services
Water Sample Analysis
Coliform & E-Coli Testing Supplies
Gen-Probe/Hologic Test Kits
Perkin Elmer Consumables
Water Testing Kits
Idexx Testing Supplies
The companies are 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: $189,800.00 is budgeted and needed for this purchase. This ordinance is contingent on the passage of the 2022 Operating Budget, Ordinance 2742-2021.
$110,000.00 was spent in 2021
$163,600.00 was spent in 2020
$166,019.00 was spent in 2019
Title
To authorize the Finance and Management Director to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements for the purchase of laboratory supplies and equipment for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Surveillance Laboratory; and to authorize the expenditure of $189,800.00 from the Sewerage Operating Fund. ($189,800.00)
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WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office has established Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements for the purchase of laboratory supplies and equipment; and
WHEREAS, the expenditure of $189,800.00 or so much thereof as is needed for the purchase of laboratory supplies and equipment from and within the Division of Sewerage Operating Fund; and
WHEREAS, the supplies and equipment will be used to monitor the quality of the treatment process as required by federal and state standards; and
WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities to authorize the Finance and Management Director to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements for the purchase of laboratory supplies and equipment; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Finance and Management Director be and is hereby authorized to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate Universal Term Contract Purchase Agreements for the purchase of laboratory supplies and equipment.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $189,800.00 or so much thereof as may be needed, be and is hereby authorized in Fund 6100 (Sewerage Operating Fund); in object class 02 Materials and Supplies per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 4. That this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.