Explanation
BACKGROUND: This legislation authorizes the Finance and Management Director to issue a purchase order to Farber Specialty Vehicles for the upgrade of HazMat 4 for the Division of Fire. This vehicle has been employed by the Division of Fire on front line emergency hazardous materials response runs since 2006, and while it has a 20 year expected life, the internal weather monitoring equipment, used in hazardous incident response, is in need of immediate replacement.
Waiver Information: The Division of Fire is requesting a waiver of Columbus City Code Section 329 becuase CFD is in need of purchasing weather monitoring equipment and it’s installation used by the Division of Fire’s Hazardous Materials Response unit HazMat4. The existing equipment, which is used in daily hazardous materials responses, is in need of immediate upgrade/replacement. Farber Specialty Vehicles is the original manufacturer of the aforementioned unit (tagged as HZ4), and is familiar with the original design and layout of the response unit, which would facilitate a more expedient delivery of the equipment upgrade (some of which is non-operable), thus CFD is requesting a Bid Waiver on this purchase
Bid Information: This purchase is recommended to be made with a waiver of formal bidding requirements, as Farber Specialty Vehicles is the original manufacturer of the hazardous materials response unit, and is familiar with the physical and electrical layout and specifications of said vehicle, which would result in a more expedient process, and thus is recommended to provide this upgrade.
Contract Compliance: #41-2043544 (Vendor #004200)
Emergency Designation: Emergency action is requested to make funding immediately available to upgrade this important equipment so that hazardous materials response services can continue without interruption.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance authorizes an expenditure of $32,709.00 from the existing appropriation within the Safety Bond Fund, sp...
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