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File #: 1530-2014    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 6/18/2014 In control: Public Utilities Committee
On agenda: 7/28/2014 Final action: 7/30/2014
Title: To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to enter into a contract with Perkin Elmer Health Sciences, Inc. for the purchase of Two Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometers for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage and to authorize the expenditure of $127,525.40 from the Sewer System Operating Fund. ($127,525.40)
Attachments: 1. ORD1530-2014 Recommendation, 2. ORD1530-2014 Information, 3. ORD1530-2014 Bid Tabulation
Explanation

BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Director of Finance and Management to enter into a contract with Perkin Elmer Health Sciences, Inc. for the purchase of Two Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometers for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage. The instrument will be used at the Division of Sewerage and Drainage Surveillance Laboratory. The Surveillance Lab will use this instrument for testing waste water samples for volatile organic chemicals.

The Purchasing Office advertised and solicited competitive bids in accordance with Section 329.06 (Solicitation SA005431). Seventeen (17) vendors (16 MAJ/1 M1A) were solicited and two (2) bids 2 MAJ were received and opened on June 5, 2014. The Division of Sewerage and Drainage recommends an award to be made to the lowest, responsive, and responsible bidder, Perkin Elmer Health Sciences, Inc.

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.

SUPPLIER: Perkin Elmer Health Sciences, Inc., Contract Compliance Number: 04-3361624, expires 01/24/16. This supplier does not hold MBE/FBE status.

FISCAL IMPACT: $127,525.40 is budgeted for this purchase. The Division of Sewerage and Drainage did not have a purchase of a similar instrument in 2012 or 2011.


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To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to enter into a contract with Perkin Elmer Health Sciences, Inc. for the purchase of Two Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometers for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage and to authorize the expenditure of $127,525.40 from the Sewer System Operating Fund. ($127,525.40)


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WHEREAS, the Two Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometers will be used at the Division of Sewerage and Drainage Surveillance Lab. The Surveillance Lab will use this instrument for testing waste water samples for volatile organic c...

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