Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Director to enter into a contract on behalf of the Office of Construction Management with Knight Electric for the installation and replacement of outdated backup electrical generators for the Impound Lot at 2700 Impound Road, and the Division of Fire at the following locations: Fire Station No. 5 at 211 McNaughten Road; Fire Station No. 22 at 3069 Parsons Avenue; Fire Station No. 23 at 4451 Livingston Avenue; Fire Station No. 25 at 739 West 3rd Avenue; and Fire Station No. 27 at 7560 Smokey Row Road. Some of the generators are well past their useful life, and some of these facilities have no backup electrical generators at all. Emergency generators are necessary to ensure the continued operation of these critical public facilities during power outages.
Formal bids were solicited and six companies submitted bids on November 6, 2014 as follows (0 FBE, *HL1, 0 MBE):
*Knight Electric $437,620.00
York Electric, Inc. $502,650.00
Jess Howard Electric $513,104.00
Proline Electric $561,762.00
Dynaelectric $580,844.00
J. Ranck Electric $638,895.00
The Office of Construction Management recommends the bid award be made to the most responsive and responsible bidder, Knight Electric.
Emergency action is requested so the Impound Lot and fire stations will remain in operation during power outages, thereby ensuring ongoing and unimpeded services to the residents of Columbus.
Knight Electric Contract Compliance No. 31-1409432, expiration date August 8, 2016.
Fiscal Impact: The cost of this contract is $437,620.00. Funding is available in the Safety Voted Bond Fund, in the amount of $386,992.50. This legislation authorizes a transfer of $50,627.50 between projects within the Street & Highway Improvement Fund and $150,000.00 between projects within the Safety Voted Bond Fund .
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To amend the 2014 Capital Improvement Budget; to authorize the C...
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