Explanation
1. BACKGROUND:
A. Need: The City of Columbus, Ohio and FOP Lodge No. 9, as well as AFSCME Local 1632, have collective bargaining
agreements which require the City to provide uniforms to all bargaining unit members at no cost to the employee. This
ordinance will enable the division to contract for uniforms for its personnel.
B. Bid Information: The Purchasing Office has set up a universal term contract FL001055 for the purchase of uniforms.
This UTC was made in response of bid # SA000125DRM.
C. Contract Compliance No.: 31-1261664
D. Emergency Designation: Emergency legislation is requested because Division Personnel are having their yearly
inspections of uniforms the first two weeks of April and we will need to set up orders from these inspections.
2. FISCAL IMPACT:
$1,278,500.00 is budgeted in the 2003 Police's General Fund Budget for the purchase of uniforms. In addition funds are available from the Bulletproof Vest Partnership grant. $1,170,300.00 was encumbered in 2002 for the purchase of uniforms.
Title
To authorize and direct the Finance Director to enter into contract with Roy Tailors Uniform Company of Columbus, Inc. to purchase police uniforms for the Division of Police from an existing UTC, to authorize the expenditure of $1,179,238.77 from the General Fund and the Government Grant Funds; and to declare an emergency. ($1,179,238.77)
Body
WHEREAS, the Purchasing Office has an existing Universal Term Contract FL001055 for the purchase of uniforms; and
WHEREAS, the Division of Police has a continuing need for uniforms, and uniform parts for its members; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual operation in the Division of Police, Department of Public Safety, in that it is immediately necessary to enter into a contract with Roy Tailors Uniform Company of Columbus, Inc. for the preservation of the public, health, peace...
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