Explanation
Background: This ordinance will authorize the Finance and Management Director, on behalf of the Fleet Management Division, to enter into contract with Parr Public Safety Equipment for the Up-fitting of Fifty (50) Ford Taurus Interceptors for the Division of Police. Bid #SA005097, which closed on 09/12/2013 for the Up-fitting of the Ford Taurus Interceptors, was awarded to Parr Public Safety Equipment the lowest, responsible, and responsible bidder.
Bid #SA005097 had two companies respond:
Parr Public Safety - $276,400.00
Statewide Emergency Products - $297,750.00
Parr Public Safety Equipment Inc., Contract Compliance Number: 20-1619573, expires 12/31/2013
This company is not debarred according to the Federal excluded parties listing or prohibited from being awarded a contract to the Auditor of State unresolved findings for recovery certified search.
Fiscal Impact: A total of $276,400.00 will be spent from the Special Income Tax Fund and was adopted as part of the 2013 budget.
Emergency Action is requested so that Fifty (50) Police Interceptors, the purchase of which were authorized pursuant to Ord. 1782-2013, can be up-fitted and readied for service for the Division of Police.
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To authorize the Finance and Management Director, on behalf of the Fleet Management Division, to enter into contract with Parr Public Safety Equipment for the Up-fitting of Fifty (50) Ford Taurus Interceptors for the Division of Police; to authorize the appropriation and expenditure of $276,400.00 from the Special Income Tax fund; and to declare an emergency. ($276,400.00)
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WHEREAS, Fifty (50) Ford Taurus Interceptors were purchased pursuant to Ord. 1782-2013.
WHEREAS, these Fifty (50) Ford Taurus Interceptors require up-fitting in order to be ready for service by the Division of Police; and
WHEREAS, funding for this vehicle up-fitting is available in the Special Income Tax fund; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Division Police, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Finance and Management Director to enter into contract so these vehicles can be up-fitted 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 Finance and Management Director, on behalf of the Fleet Management Division, is hereby authorized to contract with Parr Public Safety Equipment Inc. for the up-fitting of Fifty (50) Ford Taurus Interceptors.
SECTION 2. That the City Auditor is authorized to appropriate $276,400.00 within the Special Income Tax Fund as follows:
Dept/Div: 45-05
Fund 430
OCA: 454301
Obj Level 01: 06
Obj Level 03: 6650
SECTION 3. That the expenditure of $276,400.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary in regard to the actions authorized in Sections 1, and 2, be and is hereby authorized and approved as follows:
Dept/Div: 45-05
Fund: 430
OCA: 454301
Obj Level 01: 06
Obj Level 03: 6650
Amount: $276,400.00
SECTION 4. 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 nor vetoes the same.