Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Finance Director to establish a blanket purchase order for the purchase of Laboratory Supplies for use by the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Surveillance Laboratory.
Laboratory Supplies are required for use in the laboratories throughout the Division. Items required will be obtained in accordance with an established Universal Term Contract, with VWR Scientific Products established by the Purchasing Office.
SUPPLIER: VWR Scientific Products (91-1319190)
FISCAL IMPACT: $65,000.00 is budgeted and needed for this purchase.
$119,000.00 was spent in 2004
$100,000.00 was spent in 2003
Emergency language is being used to enable the continued purchase of laboratory materials and supplies to operate the labs.
Title
To authorize the Finance Director to establish a blanket purchase order for Laboratory Supplies from an established Universal Term Contract with VWR Scientific Products for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage; to authorize the expenditure of $65,000.00 from the Sewerage System Operating Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($65,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office has established a Universal Term Contract for the purchase of Laboratory Supplies which expires November 30, 2005; and
WHEREAS, the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, Surveillance Laboratory has need to purchase said laboratory supplies and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Sewerage and Drainage in that it is immediately necessary to establish a blanket purchase order for Lab Supplies so that there is not an interruption in laboratory supplies for the immediate preservation of the public health, property, peace and safety; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE City of Columbus:
Section 1. That the Finance Director be and is hereby authorized to establish a blanket purchase order for Laboratory Supplies from an established Universal Term Contract with VWR Scientific Products for use in the Division of Sewerage and Drainage.
Section 2. That the purpose of paying the cost thereof, the expenditure of $65,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby authorized from the Sewerage System Operating Fund, Fund No. 650, OCA: 605105, Object Level One: 02, Object Level Three 2203
to pay the cost thereof.
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 or disapproves the same.