Explanation
This legislation authorizes the Director of Finance and Management to establish a blanket purchase order for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage to obtain Rental of Construction Equipment with Operator from a pending Universal Term Contract with Travco Construction Inc.
This contract is utilized for the rental of large equipment for various projects beyond the scope of the Division's personnel. The Sewer Maintenance Operations Center rents the equipment from Travco for use in sanitary and storm sewer line maintenance and rehabilitation. Travco Construction Inc. provides the operator with the equipment.
The Purchasing Office is in the process of establishing a Universal Term Contract to obtain Rental of Construction Equipment with Operator. Items required will be obtained in accordance with this contract. Emergency legislation is being requested so that the purchase order will be established at the start of the UTC contract date of December 1, 2012 and to mitigate any disruption in projects schedules.
SUPPLIER: Travco Construction Inc. (71-0948514) Expires 2/15/2014
The company is 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: $1,820,000.00 is budgeted and needed for this purchase.
$761,141.80 was spent in 2012
$1,761,307.17 was spent in 2011
$1,846,001.77 was spent in 2010
Title
To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to establish a Blanket Purchase Order from a pending Universal Term Contract for the Rental of Construction Equipment with Operator with Travco Construction Inc., for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage, and to authorize the expenditure of $600,000.00 from the Sewerage System Operating Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($600,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office has a pending Universal Term Contract for the option to obtain Rental of Construction Equipment with Operator, with Travco Construction Inc.; and
WHEREAS, this contract is utilized for the rental of large equipment for various projects beyond the scope of the Division's personnel. The Sewer Maintenance Operations Center rents the equipment from Travco for use in sanitary and storm sewer line maintenance and rehabilitation. Travco Construction Inc. provides the operator with the equipment; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the city, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director of Finance and Management to establish blanket purchase orders in accordance with the terms and conditions of existing Universal Term Contracts to obtain rental of construction equipment with operator for the immediate preservation of 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 Director of Finance and Management be and is hereby authorized to establish a Blanket Purchase Order with Travco Construction Inc., based on a Universal Term Contract for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $600,000.00 or so much thereof as may be needed, be and the same hereby is authorized from Fund 650 as follows:
OCA: 605089
Object Level 1: 03
Object Level 3: 3349
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 nor vetoes the same.