Explanation
The Department of Finance & Management, on behalf of the Fleet Management Division, entered into contract with API Security Services for security services for the Fleet Management Division located at 4211 Groves Road.
Solicitation #SA005514 was publicly posted to the City of Columbus Vendor Services web site until August 15, 2014. The Fleet Management Division recommended a contract award to the most responsive and responsible bidder, API Security Services and Investigations Inc. in the amount of $68,350.00 which was authorized by City Council by Ordinance 1986-2014.
Ord. 1551-2015 modified and extended the existing API Security Services contract, thus representing the first of three (3) annual contract renewal/extension options, and authorized a price increase request received on June 3, 2015 per the instructions in the original bid specs to be included in this contract extension. The contractor pays responsible wage and health insurance benefits as required by Columbus City Codes.
This ordinance seeks authority to modify and renew the existing contract with API Security Services. A modification is necessary due to the inadvertent partial cancellation of funds from the 2015-16 contract. During the routine closeout of expired purchase orders, the API Security Services 2015-16 purchase order was partially reduced. This reduction was not needed and this ordinance seeks authority to increase the purchase order to its correct funding level.
The contract period covered by the prior year funding which was cancelled would have been through August of 2016. Therefore the department is requesting to restore funding up through August 2016 and to request new funding as part of the planned modification to renew the contract per original contract language which will cover the period from September 1, 2016 through and including August 31, 2017.
This includes a request for an hourly increase of $.90, for a new total of $16.10 per hour. This represents t...
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