Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Office of the City Auditor, Division of Income Tax (herein referred to as “Division”) to enter into contract with Computer Aid, Inc. for professional services. The State of Ohio has solicited and evaluated bids for professional services and is contracted with Computer Aid, Inc. (contract # 0A1097) for information technology staff augmentation services.
The Division requires a Business Analyst to analyze the Division’s policies, procedures and operations to make recommendations to improve the Division’s efficiency. Computer Aid, Inc.’s contract compliance number 232180878 expires on 10-29-2016.
FISCAL IMPACT: This legislation authorizes an expenditure of $120,000.00 with Computer Aid, Inc. for the placement of a Business Analyst with the Division. Funding for this expenditure is budgeted within the Division’s 2015 operating budget.
Emergency action is requested as there is an immediate need to analyze the Division’s policies and procedures in order to determine methods to increase the Division’s efficiency, thereby providing for better utilization of taxpayer monies.
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To authorize the Office of the City Auditor, Division of Income Tax, to enter into contract with Computer Aid, Inc. utilizing the competitively bid State of Ohio contract for the placement of a Business Analyst with the Division to increase the Division’s efficiency; to authorize the expenditure of $120,000.00 from the Division of Income Tax’s Operating Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($120,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Division of Income Tax has a need for analysis of the Division’s policies, procedures and operations in order to improve the Division’s efficiency; and
WHEREAS, Computer Aid, Inc. has contracted with the State of Ohio (contract # 0A1097) for information technology staff augmentation services that include Business Analyst; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Office of the City Auditor, Division of Income Tax in that it is immediately necessary to contract with Computer Aid, Inc. for the placement of a Business Analyst with the Division, thus maximizing the operational and cost benefits to the City, and 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 Office of the City Auditor, Division of Income Tax, is hereby authorized and directed to enter into contract with Computer Aid, Inc. for the placement of a Business Analyst with the Division to analyze the Division’s policies, processes and operations in order to make recommendations to improve Division efficiency.
SECTION 2. That the sum of $120,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary in regard to the actions authorized in Section 1, be and is hereby authorized to be expended as: Department 22, Division 2202: Fund 10: OCA 220202: Object Level 1 03: Object Level 3 3296, 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 nor vetoes the same.