Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Finance and Management Director to issue a purchase order to ECHO 24 INC. to supply and to install fiber optic cabling to support remote visual security monitoring. The City of Columbus, Division of Police, was awarded a grant under the FY09 Buffer Zone Protection Plan by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to help protect infrastructure. This fiber optic cable is an integral part of the security monitoring and will be paid for by the grant funds.
Bid Information: The Purchasing Office has set up universal term contract with ECHO 24, Inc. for the purchase of voice, data and video cabling under contract FL004688.
This company is not debarred according to the Federal excluded parties listing or prohibited from being awarded a contract according to the Auditor of State unresolved findings for recovery certified search.
Contract Compliance: ECHO 24 Inc.'s # is 311753698 and expires 9/22/2011.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $168,900.00 from the General Government Grant Funds (FY09 Buffer Zone Protection Program) for the purchase and the installation of fiber optic cabling. There is no financial impact on the General Fund operating budget for this purchase.
Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is requested so the supplies can be ordered and be ready for installation and to meet grant deadlines.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Finance and Management to issue a purchase order from an existing universal term contract with ECHO 24, Inc. for the purchase and installation of fiber optic cabling for the Division of Police, to authorize the expenditure of $168,900.00 from the General Government Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($168,900.00)
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Division of Police has been awarded a FY09 Buffer Zone Protection Plan (BZPP) Grant by the U. S. Department of Homeland Security; and
WHEREAS, there is a need to supply and to install fiber optic cabling to support remote visual security monitoring locations; and
WHEREAS, the City has an universal term contract FL004688 with ECHO 24, for the purchase of voice, data and video cabling; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Division of Police, Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director of Finance and Management to issue a purchase order for the purchase and installation of fiber optic cabling 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 be and is hereby authorized and directed to issue a purchase order to ECHO 24 Inc. for the purchase and installation of fiber optic cabling for the Division of Police on the basis of the City's universal term contract number FL004688.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $168,900.00, or so much thereof as may be needed, be and same is hereby authorized as follows:
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SECTION 3. 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.