Explanation
The purpose of this ordinance is to authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to establish a blanket purchase order for the Columbus Health Department for local telephone service with AT&T.
The Purchasing Office has established a City-wide Universal Term Contract for the purchase of local Centrex telephone services. The telephone services will be purchased in accordance with the terms and conditions of the UTC, which expires December 31, 2012. Funding within this ordinance is for the Fiscal Year 2010.
Supplier: AT&T (36-3258076) Expires 5-8-11
Emergency action is requested in order to avoid any disruption in telephone services.
Fiscal Impact: $47,000.00 is required and budgeted in the Health Special Revenue Fund, Fund 250. $36,000.00 is required and budgeted in the Women, Infants, and Children Grant Program, Fund 251. The Women, Infants and Children Program is entirely funded by the Ohio Department of Health. This program does not generate any revenue or require a City match.
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.
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To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to establish a purchase order from a Universal Term Contract with AT&T for local telephone services; to authorize the expenditure of $47,000.00 from the Health Special Revenue Fund and $36,000.00 from the Health Department Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($83,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Board of Health wishes to purchase local telephone services from an established Universal Term Contract with AT&T; and
WHEREAS, the local telephone services will be purchased in accordance with the Citywide contract which expires December 31, 2012 on file with the Purchasing Office; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to enter into this contract 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 the Department of Finance and Management is hereby authorized and directed to enter into a purchase order with AT&T, for local telephone services for the Columbus Health Department in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Citywide Universal Term Contract on file in the Purchasing Office.
Section 2. That the expenditure of $83,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized as follows to pay the cost thereof.
FUND 250
OCA: 500207
Object Level 1 03
Object Level 3: 3320
Amount: $47,000.00
FUND 251
Grant: 509116
OCA: 509116
Object Level 1: 03
Object Level 3: 3320
Amount: $36,000.00
TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED: $83,000.00
Section 3. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes necessary to ensure that this contract is properly accounted for and recorded accurately on the City's financial records.
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.